“After Miss Julie” by Patrick Marber, at Strawdog Theatre Company in Chicago through Sept. 28. Pictured: Maggie Scrantom and John Henry Roberts. (Photo by Chris Ocken)
“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” by Lynn Nottage, at the Douglas Morrison Theatre in Hayward, Calif., through Sept. 20. Pictured: Jia Taylor and Kelly Strickland. (Photo by Terry Sullivan)
“Cafe Society” by Peter Lefcourt, a Theatre Planners production at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles through Oct. 11. Pictured: Donathan Walters and Ian Patrick Williams. (Photo by Ed Krieger)
“Fences” by August Wilson, at International City Theatre in Long Beach, Calif., through Sept. 13. Pictured: Michael A. Shepperd and Christopher Carrington. (Photo by Suzanne Mapes)
“Ghost Light” by Tommy Smith, a production of the Echo Theater Company at Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles through Aug. 27. Pictured: Deborah Puette. (Photo by Troy Blendell)
“Other Desert Cities” by Jon Robin Baitz, at Theatre Workshop of Nantucket in Nantucket, Mass., through Sept. 19. Pictured: Katie Croyle, Colleen Zenk, and John Devaney.
“Outside Mullingar” by John Patrick Shanley, at Peninsula Players Theatre in Fish Creek, Wis., through Sept. 6. Pictured: Jay Whittaker and Maggie Kettering.
“Peter and the Starcatcher” by Rick Elice, Wayne Barker, Dave Barry, and Ridley Pearson, a Pacific Conservatory Theatre production at the Solvang Theater Festival, in Solvang, Calif., in 2015.
“Red” by John Logan, at Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville, N.C., through Sept. 5. Pictured: Patrick Cronin and Jered Shults.
“Seascape” by Edward Albee, at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wis., through Oct. 18. Pictured: Sarah Day and Jonathan Smoots. (Photo by Carissa Dixon)
“Sondheim UnScripted,” adapted from Stephen Sondheim by Impro Theatre, at Impro Theatre in Burbank, Calif., through Sept. 27. Pictured: Brian Lohmann, Brian Michael Jones, and Lauren Rose Lewis.
“The Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare, at the Old Globe in San Diego through Sept. 20. (Photo by Jim Cox)
“The Swingaroos” at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, Fla., through Sept. 20.
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” adapted by Christopher Sergel from Harper Lee, at Harlequin Productions in Olympia, Wash., through Sept. 12. Pictured: Aaron Lamb and Loren Kattenbraker.
“The Tempest” by William Shakespeare, at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, N.Y., through Sept. 1.