Le Livre Blanc, The Journeymen at Gerber/Hart Library, through July 17. Jean Cocteau’s pyscho-sexual history of a young man’s coming of age and search for love. Discretely homo-erotic words with Cocteau’s not-so-discrete drawings. (Abarbanel)
San Valentino And The Melancholy Kid, House Productions at Theatre On The Lake, opens July 28. A one-week revival of last winter’s hit existential rock-and-roll western. Saddle up, all you slowpokes who missed it first time ’round. (Barnidge)
Strong Poison, Lifeline Theatre, through Aug. 15. Can genius detective Lord Peter Wimsey rescue the woman he loves, and prove she didn’t murder her former boyfriend? Find out in this edge-of-your-seat adaptation of Dorothy Sayers’ whodunit. (Barnidge)
Winesburg, Ohio, About Face at Steppenwolf, through Aug. 1.
— By Abarbanel, Barnidge and Reed