Flyin’ West, American Blues Theater @ Stage 773, through Nov. 3. In all-Black Nicodemus, KS in 1898, four feisty farming women deal with a rogue male. An endearing cast puts over this enjoyable melodrama-comedy blend. JA
Blue Man Group, Briar Street Theater, open run. If your nieces and nephews are too old for Bunnicula, but too young for Golden Girls: Bea Afraid, the silent blue men with the splashy drums and oozing vests still conjure some spellbinding spectacle. MSB
The Rocky Balboa Picture Show, Corn Productions at the Cornservatory, through Nov. 3. The “sweet-ass boxer from Philadelphia, Pennsyl-va-n-i-a” is back in this mashup of monsters-and-muscle film classics. MSB
The Little Foxes, Citadel Theatre, through Oct. 28. Lillian Hellman’s exploration of greed and family in post-Civil War Alabama has a plot that hits like (spoiler alert, sort of) a heart attack while flaying bare (yes, I do mean flaying) the racism and misogyny of the Deep South both then and now. CES
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Sullivan