Girl power stories have too often been few and far between but, reader, it’s 2021 and things are a-changing. For the Palo Alto Players’ 91st season, the organization hosts The Revolutionists, a female-focused comedy about four women during the French Revolution. The protagonists strive to live free and loud in the city of lights, aiming to hang out, plot to murder Jean-Paul Marat and to beat back extremism in France. All you need is a beret, a glass of Syrah and an almond croissant to dive into the heart of this modern take on an age-old tale. Vive les femmes!

The Revolutionists
Opens Sat, 8pm, $57
Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto

When her father is murdered for daring to oppose Maoist doctrine, Mei-Li has no choice but to flee her native China for an uncertain life in San Francisco. After managing to enter the country without papers, she finds that Chinatown is fraught with intergenerational tension. The Palo Alto Players stage playwright David Henry Hwang’s updated version of the original Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. In his reimagining, Hwang replaces the shallow stereotypes of the original production, painting Chinatown as gritty and unforgiving for new immigrants like Mei-Li and giving the female characters more agency. Runs through May 12.

Flower Drum Song
Fri, 8pm, $22+
Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto

Based on the bestselling children’s novel by Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting makes its regional premiere at Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks just in time for the holiday season. Set in the late 19th century, the story chronicles the life of young Winnie Foster, whose adventures lead her to stumble upon the Tuck family and their secret to immortality. Directed by TheatreWorks founder and artistic director Robert Kelley, it is brought to life with a score and lyrics by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen; the pair originally wrote the songs for Tuck while in residence at the TheatreWorks Writers’ Retreat in 2010. Runs through Dec. 30.

Tuck Everlasting
Wed, 8pm, $35+
Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto