Theater events: Otherworld's choose-your-own-adventure show returns

• Otherworld Theatre's choose-your-own-adventure show returns for its fourth installment beginning Friday, June 15, at 3914 N. Clark St., Chicago. The superhero is based on audience suggestions in "Fight Quest 4 Peace," which is preceded by a variety show hosted by Jacob Kain Pierce. Tickets are pay-what-you-can. See otherworldtheatre.org.

• Eta Creative Arts Foundation presents the Chicago-area premiere of Reginald Edmund's "Juneteenth Street." Gloria Bond Clunie directs the drama about a pastor who takes over a struggling Houston church and finds he must balance the legacy of his predecessors with the one he hopes to establish. The show, part of Edmund's nine-play "City of Bayou Collection," opens Friday, June 15, at 7558 S. South Chicago Ave., Chicago. (773) 752-3955 or etacreativearts.org.

• The ensemble El Bear debuts its newest, adults-only show "Mr. Moral's Stories for Surviving Dark Times Without Losing It" beginning Saturday, June 16, at Collaboraction in the Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. (312) 226-9633 or facebook.com/elbearwasthere.

• In honor of Pride Month, "Cards Against Humanity Late Night Writers Room" performs an adults-only, LGBTQ-themed show at 10 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at the Pride Arts Center, 4139 N. Broadway, Chicago. Cards Against Humanity improvisers will act out suggestions supplied by the audience. (773) 857-0222 or pridefilmsandplays.com.

• Trap Door Theatre presents "Sad Happy Sucker," an absurdist comedy about a young man paralyzed by self-doubt and confusion, by Dallas native and DePaul University Theatre School graduate Lee Kirk. Performances begin Sunday, June 17, at 1655 W. Cortland Ave., Chicago. (773) 384-0494 or trapdoortheatre.com.

• Barrel of Monkeys debuts "That's Weird, Grandma: Brand New Stories," comprised of new sketches, songs and dances adapted from stories written by Chicago public school students. The new installment begins Monday, June 18, at the Neo-Futurists' theater, 5153 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago. (773) 506-7140 or barrelofmonkeys.org.

• Comedian Whitney Wasson hosts "You Won!" a show featuring improvisers, storytellers, comedians and musicians who explore what it means to be successful. Audiences are encouraged to wear their medals and ribbons and share their competition stories. Performances run at 8 p.m. Mondays beginning June 18 at iO Chicago, 1501 N. Kingsbury St., Chicago. (312) 929-2401 or ioimprov.com.

• Hell in a Handbag Productions reunites Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia for its second incarnation of "The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes Vol. 2" beginning previews Tuesday, June 19, at Mary's Attic, 5400 N. Clark St., Chicago. David Cerda wrote the parody of the 1980s sitcom about the misadventures of women of a certain age. The show, directed by Becca Holloway, opens June 22. (800) 838-3006 or handbagproductions.org.

• Previews begin Thursday, June 21, for The Mercury Theater Chicago's revival of its 2014 homegrown production of the adults-only "Avenue Q," the puppet musical about twentysomethings negotiating life, love, relationships and careers in New York City by composer/lyricists Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez and writer Jeff Whitty. Master puppeteer, actor and puppet designer Rick Lyon will lead puppetry training for the production directed by L. Walter Stearns with music direction by Eugene Dizon. The production opens June 29 at 3745 N. Southport Ave., Chicago. (773) 325-1700 or mercurytheaterchicago.com.

• In honor of Pride Month, the Neo-Futurists remount "30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes," a version of its ongoing show "The Infinite Wrench" at 5153 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago. The remount - which "slays gender roles and celebrates deviance" - opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 21, with a benefit for Brave Space Alliance, an LGBTQ center located on Chicago's South Side. Additional performances take place from June 22-24. Benefit tickets are $25. Other performances are cash only for $9 plus a roll of a six-sided die. (773) 275-5255 or neofuturists.org.

• BoHo Theatre announced that Northwestern University faculty member Stephen Schellhardt will take over as artistic director beginning in early 2019. A BoHo artistic associate since 2015, Schellhardt replaces outgoing artistic director Peter Marston Sullivan, who will remain with the company he had helmed for eight years. Sullivan's revival of "110 in the Shade" concludes BoHo's season this fall. "I am humbled by the trust that the talented, dedicated and energetic company and board has placed in me," said Schellhardt in a prepared statement. "I am excited to continue growing BoHo and introducing fresh, inventive programming."

• Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, which recently concluded a 13-year residency at Chicago's No Exit Cafe, announced the lineup for its first season, which begins in December at its new home: 721 Howard St., Evanston. The season begins Dec. 7 with a revival of the musical "The Full Monty," David Yazbek and Terrence McNally's stage adaptation of the 1997 British comedy about unemployed steelworkers who decide to make extra money by stripping. Artistic director Fred Anzevino directs. That's followed on March 8, 2019, by Jason Robert Brown and Marsha Norman's "The Bridges of Madison County," the 1965-set relationship musical based on the novel by Robert James Waller about the love affair between an Italian housewife living in rural Iowa and the internationally known photographer who comes to town on a photo assignment. The season concludes with the off-Broadway hit musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (June 14-July 28, 2019) by writer John Cameron Mitchell and composer/lyricist Stephen Trask. It centers on Hedwig Schmidt, a transgender rock goddess from East Germany whose botched sex-change operation left her angry and whose relationships with duplicitous men left her furious. Season tickets will go on sale soon. (800) 595-4849 or theo-u.com.