Fire On The Mountain, Northlight Theatre, through June 17. The old-time bluegrass music played by a foot-stomping Appalachian string band makes this populist revue about coal miners more concert than historical docudrama, but who cares? Hyee-hah! MSB
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit, Royal George, through Sept. 2. Gerard Alessandrini and his quartet of master actors offer non-stop laughs, cutting imitations of Broadway celebs and spoofs of the latest hits. Missing this show would be a crime. SCM
I Sailed With Magellan, Victory Gardens at the Biograph, through July 15. Prepare for total immersion in Claudia Allen's stage adaptation of Stuart Dybek's fiction. His chronicles of growing up in Chicago are things you fall into willingly, body and soul. CS
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!, Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, through July 29. Long before the Superman movies or Smallville, composer Charles Strouse ( Annie, Bye-Bye Birdie ) took his shot at the Man of Steel in this rarely-produced Broadway tuner. JA
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge, Morgan and Sullivan