Theater briefs
What's new
Redmoon Theatre's latest spectacle -- a Depression-era tale about a man reflecting on his life -- incorporates original gospel and folk music as well as the company's trademark puppets. The play, "Boneyard Prayer," also references tramp art and literary works including T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" and Dante's "Inferno." In previews at Redmoon Central, 1463 W. Hubbard St., Chicago, it opens March 30. (312) 850-8440, ext. 111 or redmoon.org.
Profiles Theatre concludes its Neil LaBute season with "In a Dark, Dark House," about brothers confronting their troubled past. The show opens Thursday at 4147 N. Broadway, Chicago. (773) 549-1815 or profilestheatre.org.
L.A. cult hit "The Beastly Bombing," a Gilbert and Sullivan-esque operetta about "terrorists tamed by the tangles of true love," opened Thursday at Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W. Cortland Ave., Chicago. (773) 384-0494 or trapdoortheatre.com.
An amateur theater director defies his community to stage Oscar Wilde's controversial "Salome," in the coming-of-middle-age musical "A Man of No Importance." The show opened this week at Bailiwick Repertory, 1229 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago. (773) 883-1090 or bailiwick.org.
Gift Theatre's "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," about exactly what the title suggests, opened this week at 4802 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. (773) 283-7071 or thegifttheatre.org.
Last chance
Next Theatre's "The American Dream Songbook," pairing Leonard Bernstein's rarely seen on-act opera "Trouble in Tahiti" with new songs by five American composes, closes Saturday at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston. (847) 475-1875.
Lifeline Theatre's world premiere adaptation of Julian Barnes' novel "Talking it Over," about a love triangle involving a married couple and an old friend, closes Sunday at 6912 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago. (773) 761-4477.
-- Barbara Vitello