Skeleton Crew, Northlight Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, through March 3. The experience of four blue-collar workers in a Detroit automotive plant facing layoffs continues Dominique Morisseau's saga of America's grit-level economy. MSB
Blind Date, Goodman Theatre, through Feb. 25. Rogelio Martinez and Robert Falls check all the boxes in this witty and insightful docudrama of superpowers in the cold-war arms race reduced to a staring contest between its two leaders. MSB
Pillars of the Community, Strawdog Theatre, through March 3. Ibsen's 1877 drama about personal moral integrity and exploitive business practices is compelling, forceful, straightforward and more than ever a cautionary tale for today ( and an embryonic feminist work ). JA
You Got Older, Steppenwolf Theatre, through March 11. Directed by Jonathan Berry, Clare Barron's autobiographical drama follows a no-longer-so-young woman as she contends with problems that demand way more maturity than she's needed previously. CES
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