Onstage: 'Au Pair Man' revival
Comedy of manners
Donna Steele and Jim Poole star as a wealthy English woman and her Irish boy-toy in Steel Beam Theatre's revival of Hugh Leonard's “The Au Pair Man,” a 1968 comedy that examines the England-Ireland conflict via a Pygmalian-style relationship. Also at Steel Beam, the theater will hold the raffle drawing for an Italian scooter on Saturday, March 5. Raffle tickets available at the box office.
Opens Friday, Feb. 18, at 111 W. Main St., St. Charles. (630) 587-8521 or steelbeamtheatre.com.
Page to stage
DuPage County attorney Bruce Steinberg adapts “My Occasional Torment,” a novel by his alter-ego Bee Robb about a middle-aged woman concerned about sustaining romance in her marriage while she juggles teenage children, aging parents, body issues and her neighbors' disintegrating relationships. The world premiere takes place at Naperville's Center Stage Theater.
Opens Friday, Feb. 18, at 1665 Quincy Ave., Naperville. (630) 470-6393.
Classic comedy
Triple threat Jon Steinhagen (actor, composer, playwright) stars in Circle Theatre's revival of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy, “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” about a snarky theater critic and radio host who injures himself while having dinner at the home of a wealthy family and spends the next few weeks recuperating there as he disrupts the lives of everyone around him. Mary Redmon directs.
Previews begin Friday, Feb. 18, at 1010 Madison St., Oak Park. The show opens Wednesday, Feb. 23. (708) 771-0700 or circle-theatre.org.
— Barbara Vitello