Stage Top 5: April 2024

August Wilson at Yale Repertory Theatre/Photo: David Cooper Photography

1
Brooklyn Laundry
(Northlight Theatre)
A rolling world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s newest romantic comedy.
Starts April 11

2
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
(Goodman Theatre)
Director Chuck Smith revives the second play in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle.
Starts April 13

3
How I Learned What I Learned
(Congo Square/Broadway in Chicago)
Harry Lennix stars in the one-man autobiographical show by August Wilson.
Starts April 20

4
Judgment Day
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Jason Alexander plays “a staggeringly corrupt, morally bankrupt lawyer” in this world-premiere comedy.
Starts April 23

5
The Thanksgiving Play
(Steppenwolf Theatre)
MacArthur genius Larissa FastHorse’s “skewering and satirical comedy” promises to serve up “the hypocrisies of woke America on a big, family-style platter.”
Starts April 25

“Operation Mincemeat” Lampoons Nazis, Allies and Musical Theater Itself The “new musical” by comedy troupe SpitLip stops at nothing to be entertaining.

Bevara Anderson-Selkridge Connects Worlds with BALA Dance Project “The mental load of all the things in life—it makes you feel that making isn’t important or worthy enough. So, to shut that noise out and say no, I’m going to keep dancing."

“I Am the Wind” Illuminates the Foggy Unknown This delicate play at Theatre Y stages the precipice—the line between life and death—and what it means when someone chooses to cross it.

Steppenwolf’s “Topdog/Underdog” Reckons With the American Dream Namir Smallwood and Glenn Davis anchor Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy about two brothers trying to make it.

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