Plays, Musicals and Theater Festivals Worth Traveling to This Summer

Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times

Midwest

The Wisconsin-based American Players Theater (which recently won the Tony for regional theater) returns with another quality slate presented in repertory through the entire summer. There is some Shakespeare, as usual, including “The Two ‘Gentlemen’ of Verona,” adapted by Aaron Posner with music by Greg Kotis, of “Urinetown” fame. But the season covers a lot of stylistic ground, from Thornton Wilder’s “The Matchmaker” to Jen Silverman’s “Witch” and Eugène Ionesco’s “The Chairs.”

Another “Urinetown” alum, Mark Hollmann, is part of the team behind the new musical comedy “Iceboy!” (through Aug. 9) at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. The show imagines the unlikely encounter between a 1930s Broadway diva (Megan Mullally), Eugene O’Neill (Nick Offerman) and the Neanderthal title character (Grey Henson).

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