Missing Man, Live Bait Theater; through March 2. Hooray, Mary Scruggs' 2007 Fillet of Solo show returns! Scruggs' account of her cross-country motorcycle journey to the Vietnam Memorial with a cadre of Vietnam Vets is hilarious and deeply affecting. SCM
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, Royal George Theatre, through Jan. 27. The costume changes come fast and furious in this hilarious musical revue that takes potshots at all things Broadway. After 10 months it's going, going, gone this week! SCM
Titus Andronicus, Court Theatre, through Feb. 10. Iconoclastic director Charles Newell updates Shakespeare's Roman tragedy as a tale for our times; a blood-soaked saga of revenge, rape, mayhem, murder, mutilation and cannibalism. And then it gets nasty. JA
White People, Gift Theatre, through March 1. An erudite academic, a long-fallen prom queen and a corporate shark reveal the damning, damned side of human nature in blazing monologues directed by Michael Patrick Thornton; an intense, troubling drama. CS
—By Abarbanel, Morgan and
Sullivan