Support Group for Men, Goodman Theatre, through July 29. These are confusing times for everyone, but Ellen Fairey doesn’t neglect the other half of the population and their search for meaning, identity and companionship on a noisy night in Wrigleyville. MSB
The View UpStairs, Circle Theatre at Pride Arts Broadway, through July 22. A time traveler from 2018 finds himself among ghostly companions at a gay bar in 1973, but while the passing decades have brought about progress, “it gets better” is still far away. MSB
Gaslight District, The Second City e.t.c., open run. The 42nd revue at The Second City’s “junior” stage strikes at Trump, improvises a song, engages an audience member and trumpets its multiethnic, multiamorous cast. JA
Haymarket, Underscore Theatre at the Den Theatre, through July 22. A star is born in Bridget Adams-King’s clarion-voiced portrayal of Lucy Parsons, who is front and center in this riotous new folk music about the Haymarket Affair and violent birth of the labor movement. CES
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Sullivan