The House of Blue Leaves

John Guare’s script could rightly be called the star of this classic Jungle Theater production, but the cast includes a surefire lineup of local stage wonders: Jungle artistic director Bain Boehlke, the indefatigable and inimitable comic actress Wendy Lehr, and the ex-Twin Citizen Rosalie Tenseth, who’s returned from New York to reprise, for a third time, her role as Bunny, the mistress who favors hot-pink spandex and leopard prints. Guare’s acerbic, eighties-era tale makes light of a host of modern predicaments: terrorism, infidelity, mental illness, and celebrity lust. The resulting production is at once gut-busting and biting–a must-see. 2951 Lyndale Ave. S.; 612-822-7063; www.jungletheater.com