The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, through June 22. It's a transfer of Collaboraction's serio-comedy about the Internet, AI and a trash-talking teen genius seeking her roots. Astonishing performance by Jennifer Shin. JA
The Lady From Dubuque, Infamous Commonwealth at Raven Theatre, through June 17. Are the uninvited guests in this fashionably funereal home really angels of death? With Edward Albee you never know, but this production makes the guessing easier. MSB
Shenandoah, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, through June 24. David Hess stars as a man who learns too late that ignoring bloodshed won't allow you to avoid it, and the Civil War becomes a tragedy of sweeping, epic sadness in this Les Miserables-esque musical. CS
Troilus and Cressida, Chicago Shakespeare, through June 24. With unforgettable images and scathing poetry, the killing fields of a war based on false pretenses and ego are tilled to bloody fruition while Pandarus and a pantheon of flawed gods unleash forces of tragic destruction. CS
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Sullivan