Theater: Worth the trip
Boomer blues
Reading glasses, aching joints, graying hair. Middle age offers much to look forward to and Noble Fool skewers it all in its new revue, "Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical!" The show opens Saturday at Pheasant Run Resort & Spa, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. (630) 584-6342.
Wilson's 'Jitney'
"Jitney," August Wilson's snapshot of the 1970s seen through the eyes of a group of Pittsburgh cab drivers, opens Pegasus Players' 29th season. Previews continue this weekend. "Jitney" opens Monday at the O'Rourke Center at Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson Ave., Chicago. (773) 878-9761.
Faith in the family
Keith Bunin's "The Busy World is Hushed" an examination of faith and love centered around an Episcopalian minister, her estranged son and the young academic ghost-writing her new book, continues previews this weekend at Next Theatre. The play opens Monday at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston. (847) 475-1875.
-- Barbara Vitello
Openings:
Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's version of the cable TV phenomenon turned stage hit "High School Musical" opens Sunday at 111 W. Campbell St., Arlington Heights. (847) 577-2121.
The doo-wop show "Forever Plaid" opens today Steel Beam Theatre, 111 W. Main St., St Charles. (630) 587-8521.
An ex-rugby player bets he can turn a bunch of amateurs into a championship team in the British comedy "Up N' Under," which opened this week at Circle Theatre, 7300 W. Madison St., Forest Park. (708) 771-0700.
Congo Square's production of "Elmina's Kitchen," Kwama Kwei-Armah's drama about a British black youth struggling to stay on the right side of the law despite living on the wrong side of town opens Saturday at the Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, 777 N. Green St., Chicago. (312) 733-6000.
Profiles Theatre begins its salute to Neil LaBute with "Some Girl(s)," about an engaged guy who tries to repair his romantic damage to former lovers before he gets married. The play opens today at 4147 N. Broadway, Chicago. (773) 549-1815.
The House Theatre of Chicago opens its season with "The Magnificents" a clown show by House member and magician Dennis Watkins and directed by 500 Clown's Molly Brennan. It opens Saturday at the Viaduct Theatre, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago. (773) 251-2195.