If you somehow missed Jersey Boys during its previous runs in Chicago between 2007 to 2010 and for two months in 2012, it is back again as part of a national tour. Bop along to tunes like "Sherry," "Walk Like a Man" and more as you learn about the unlikely rise to pop stardom fame of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in this hit 2005 Broadway jukebox musical. Jersey Boys continues through Sunday, May 24, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St. Tickets are $32-$112; call 800-775-2000 or visit www.broadwayinchicago.com .
Critics' Picks
All's Well That Ends Well, Stage Left Theater at Theater Wit, through May 24. Shakespeare's "problem play" emerges as a comedy after being relocating to a Hollywood-Gangster/Mafia fantasyland somewhere between Little Caesar and Goodfellas. MSB
Doubt: A Parable, Writers Theatre, Glencoe, through July 19. Director William Brown's site-specific production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is pitch-perfect in the very appropriate library space of Glencoe Union Church. SCM
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773, through May 24. Two-thousand year old Roman farce meets 20th Century American burlesque in a musical that's brisk, bawdy, funny, frantic, romantic but definitely NOT bashful. Songs by Sondheim, too! JA
Red Handed Otter, A Red Orchid Theatre, through May 24. Some people are better at forging relationships with animals than with other humans, and if you're one of these, you'll love Ethan Lipton's band of pet-loving misfits immediately. MSB
By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Morgan