Playwright: Gina Gionfriddo Director: Desdemona Chiang Comedy $32-$60 8/29-10/5

Can any woman have it all? After graduate school, Catherine and Gwen chose different paths. Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic and media darling, writing books linking Internet pornography with 9/11, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the other’s life. When Catherine returns home to look after her ailing mother, a risky game of musical chairs begins as three generations of women struggle with feminism’s foibles.

Tickets and info: (510) 843-4822; auroratheatre.org

Caption: Marilee Talkington, Nicole Javier and Lilian Bogovich. Photo: David Allen.