The Audience, Timeline Theatre Company, extended through Dec. 3. Like the cat in the nursery rhyme, Chicago playgoers can visit the queen in Peter Morgan’s intimate look at how Elizabeth II has successfully ruled her country for more than six decades. MSB
Quixote: On the Conquest of Self, Writers Theatre through Dec. 17. Henry Godinez as the mad knight, Don Quixote, is brilliant, skilled, assured, funny, physical and profound in this less-than-perfect 90-minute contemporary Mexican play with a sappy Peter Pan-ish ending. Godinez more than makes it worthwhile. JA
School of Rock, Cadillac Palace Theatre, through Nov. 19. The inclusiveness of rock music and the power of the arts to help youth cope with difficult personal and family issues are the take away messages from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mostly fun stage adaptation of the hit 2003 Jack Black film. SCM
Yasmina’s Necklace, Goodman Theatre, through Nov. 19. Global hostilities and domestic prejudice don’t make it any easier for love to conquer you-know-what in Rohina Malik’s darkly romantic tale of immigrant youths seeking escape from their pasts. MSB
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan