A Delicate Balance, Remy Bumppo at Victory Gardens, through Oct. 30. Last chance to see a fine ensemble in Edward Albee's eerily prophetic—he wrote it in 1966—portrait of the rich and complacent beset by vague terror and unidentified insecurity. MSB
Hughie, Goodman Theatre, through Nov. 21. Robert Falls has directed Brian Dennehy to two Tony Awards. Eugene O'Neill's one-act tone poem about a small-time Broadway gambler bending a hotel clerk's ear should be another Falls/Dennehy tour-de-force. JA
Kung Fu Shakespeare, Mary-Arrchie Theatre at The Storefront, opens Oct. 28. The text may be Shakespeare, but the fights are staged by Chuck Coyl (remember the tooth-pulling scene in Bug?) and the script is by Will Kern, who gave us the long-running Hellcab. MSB
1984, Lookkinglass, through Nov. 28. Creative, bold adaptation of Orwell's nightmarish novel of a future where concepts of freedom and privacy have been banished by an omnipotent government. Sound familiar? RR
By Jonathan Abarbanel, Mary Shen Barnidge and Rick Reed