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Love and Money

Steep Theatre Co., Chicago

(866) 811-4111

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Money worries are certainly topical, but Dennis Kelly’s “dark, angry,” brilliant new play is a “wake-up call” for anyone being swallowed by them, said the Chicago Sun-Times. In a series of loosely linked scenes, Kelly’s characters allow their acquisitive instincts to corrupt their better impulses. Their blindness might just “shake your soul.”

Untitled Feminist Show

Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York

(212) 352-3101

Young Jean Lee’s nearly wordless, completely clothes-free show is “one of the more moving and imaginative works” to be staged in years, said The New Yorker. Through dance and a few props, the all-female, six-member cast generates a powerful commentary on gender roles.

The North Plan

Portland Center Stage, Portland, Ore.

(503) 445-3700

A foul-mouthed woman protesting a DUI charge becomes an “unlikely political-theater heroine” in Jason Wells’s play, said the Portland Oregonian. Wells’s dystopian tale raises serious issues about dissent. But what makes it a threat to public order is that the entire night’s a “laugh riot.”