Theater spotlight: Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors' comes to Aurora's RiverEdge Park

Changing places

Williams Street Repertory stages the 2017 musical "Freaky Friday," adapted by "Next to Normal" composer and lyricist Thomas Kitt and Brian Yorkey and writer Bridget Carpenter from Mary Rodgers' 1972 children's book about a mother and her teenage daughter who magically swap places. Catherine L. Yore plays overworked Katherine, who changes places with rebellious Ellie (Jordan Nazos) on the day before Katherine's wedding.

8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2-3, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. $44.50. (815) 356-9212 or rauecenter.org.

Ignition fest

Victory Gardens Theater's 11th annual Ignition Festival of New Plays showcases six new works presented in staged readings directed by Lili-Anne Brown, Devon de Mayo and artistic director Chay Yew among others. Featured plays include "#NEWSLAVES" by Keelay Gipson; "They Could Give No Name" by Exal Iraheta; "Reckoning: Furies From a New Queer Nation" by Geraldine Inoa; "The Tasters" by Meghan Brown; "[hieroglyph]" by Erika Dickerson-Despenza; and "The Gradient" by Steph Del Rosso.

7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2; 11 a.m., 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3; and 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago. Admission is free, but reservations are required. (773) 871-3000 or victorygardens.org/ignition.

Bard in the park

Chicago Shakespeare Theater brings its touring production of "The Comedy of Errors" to Aurora for the first time as part of its Shakespeare in the Parks series. The production, which features Paramount Theatre favorite Meghan Murphy, is about an aristocrat and his servant searching for their long-lost twin brothers in a foreign land. CST veteran David H. Bell directs.

6:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Thomas J. Weisner RiverEdge Park, 360 N. Broadway, Aurora. Free. (630) 896-6666 or riveredgeaurora.com.