The company that launched the acclaimed Stonewall Riots drama Hit the Wall is getting experimental with their latest world premiere called The Salts. The Inconvenience debuts an experimental contemporary dance project by collaborators Erin Kilmurray and Molly Brennan that also features pre- and post-show entertainment by a roster of local bands. The Inconvenience's The Salts continues through Sunday, May 24, in Room 300 of the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 W. Milwaukee Ave. Tickets are $10 for the preview and $25 for the regular run; visit www.theinconvenience.org .
Photo by Matthew Gregory Hollis/The Inconvenience
Critics' Picks
Billy Elliot, Drury Lane Theatre, Oakbrook Terrace, through June 7. Director/choreographer Rachel Rockwell works wonders at staging Elton John and Lee Hall's 2005 musical adaptation of the acclaimed 2000 British film. SCM
Three Sisters, The Hypocrites at Den Theatre, through June 6. The stage picture may be gilded-age Russiaalbeit with an expressionist palettebut Chekhov's frivolous aristocrats speak a briskly modern idiom in Geoff Button's radical interpretation of this classic. MSB
Twisted Melodies, Congo Square Theatre at Athenaeum Theatre, through June 14. It takes a brave actor to put himself into the mind of a frightened man preparing to commit suicide, but Kelvin Roston Jr. does it for 90 minutes in his solo portrayal of R&B musician Donny Hathaway. MSB
The White Road, Irish Theatre of Chicago at Den Theatre, through June 13. True story: Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton snatches triumph from the failure of his 1914-1916 expedition by overcoming natural catastrophe and bringing every man home alive! It's a tad long but good, manly stuff. JA
By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan