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Schauer Arts and Activities Center

In Church Basement Ladies 5: The Last (Potluck) Supper, playwright Greta Grosch’s final installment of the Church Basement Ladies series, the church is having its centennial celebration and we time-jump with the parishioners as they share memories and stories from the last 100 years. The show runs at Schauer Arts and Activities Center (147 N. Rural St., Hartford) Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28. For tickets, call 262-670-0560 or visit schauercenter.org.

The Carroll Players

The Carroll Players present Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a play that explores the paradoxes of modern technology and a woman’s struggle in confronting her own assumptions about morality, redemption and the constant need to connect. Show runs Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28 at 238 N. East Ave., Waukesha. Admission is free. For more information, visit carrollplayers.weebly.com.

Uprooted Theatre

Adapted from Toni Morrison’s novel by Lydia Diamond, The Bluest Eye shares the story of a young abused black girl growing up in 1940s Ohio who wishes the world wasn’t clouded by racism and distorted norms of beauty. This one-night-only Uprooted Theatre production directed by Marti Gobel takes place Monday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at Next Act Theatre, 255 S. Water St. For tickets, call 414-278-0765 or visit uprootedmke.com.

All In Productions

All In Productions presents The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2220 N. Terrace Ave. Adam, a nerdy college student, meets Evelyn while visiting an art museum and the two hit it off—but is she twisting Adam and his friends in hurtful ways? The show, which contains adult language and situations, runs April 2-11. For tickets, visit allin-mke.com.