Theater spotlight
The Mayne Stage teams with Cult Camp Productions to stage the hit 2005 off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, which is all about a fictitious Christian boy band on the last night of its "Raise the Praise" tour. See if the boys can stay together or if the lures of celebrity, sexuality or the hope of solo career will break them apart. Altar Boyz continues at 8 p.m. Fridays through Sundays until Aug. 23 at the Mayne Stage, 1328-30 W. Morse Ave. Tickets are $20; call 866-468-3401 or visit www.maynestage.com .
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Critics' Picks
The Diary of Anne Frank, Writers Theatre, Glencoe, through Aug. 16. Closing! The revised script of this familiar drama incorporates long-expunged diary passages that make Anne more human and less saintly. JA
A Perfect Ganesh, Eclipse Theatre Company at Athenaeum Theatre, through Aug. 23. Terrence McNally digs deep to examine two women and their sense of loss, regret and even homophobia as they travel across in India in this 1993 drama that could easily have been just a comedy riff on the stereotype of the entitled American abroad. SCM
The Summer of Daisy Fay, New American Folk Theatre at Redtwist Theatre, through Aug. 17. Yankees might be skeptical of Fannie Flagg's account of growing up in Mississippi circa 1958, but the events described by her young heroine occur in real life more often than we'd like to admit. MSB
Thunderballs, DD7 at Gorilla Tango Theatre, through Aug. 28. This clever gender-bending spoof of James Bond movies would be entertaining even if it didn't include a diverse range of playful mostly male physiques in diverse states of undress. MSB
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