TRU GRACE: HOLIDAY MEMOIRS Debra Wise delivers a poignant performance as Sook, a 60-something eccentric in rural Alabama who bonds with her 7-year-old cousin as they hunt for ingredients to a holiday fruitcake in this adaptation of Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,’’ presented on a double bill with Grace Paley’s “The Loudest Voice.’’ Through Dec. 27. Underground Railway Theater. Central Square Theater, Cambridge. 866-811-4111, www.centralsquaretheater.org
SLEEP NO MORE Prepare for some close encounters with the cast in this adventurous, immersive, and mostly wordless reworking of “Macbeth,’’ a coproduction by the American Repertory Theater and Punchdrunk, the experimental British theater troupe. Extended through Feb. 7. American Repertory Theater. Old Lincoln School, Brookline. 617-547-8300, www.americanrepertorytheater.org
THE DONKEY SHOW If disco be the food of love . . . oh, wait, wrong play. In this splashy debut by new ART artistic director Diane Paulus, Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ is transmogrified into a Studio 54-style phantasmagoria. Go ahead, try not to have a good time. Just try. Extended through next summer. American Repertory Theater, Oberon. 617-547-8300, www.americanrepertorytheater.org DON AUCOIN
KAREN CAMPBELL
KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO: . . . OUT OF HERE: THE VETERANS PROJECT A sound and projection-based installation re-creating the experience of an ambush of US soldiers in Iraq by this world-renowned, MIT-affiliated Polish artist. Through March 28. Institute of Contemporary Art. 617-478-3100, www.icaboston.org
THE ROSE AT BRANDEIS: WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION A selection of highlights from the Rose’s top-drawer collection of modern and contemporary art from Europe and America. Through May 23. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham. 781-736-3434, www.brandeis.edu/rose
SEBASTIAN SMEE
TEH PLOT Too wintry for you? An exhibition from the collaborative TEH (artists Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook) deploys video, audio, and sculpture to simulate summer. Cut grass, cicadas, and water hoses provided inspiration. Through Jan. 22. Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, 300 Summer St. 617-423-4299, www.fortpointarts.org
STRANGE LOOPS There’s no beginning or end to the works in this show, which play with the ongoing and sometimes dizzying back-and-forth between abstraction and figuration, language and image, finite and infinite. Through Jan. 3. Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont St. 617-426-5000, www.bcaonline.org
CATE McQUAID 
