Blizzard ’67, Chicago Dramatists, through Feb. 12. A battered Ford in a snowstorm is like a bunker under enemy fire to the four car-pooling suburbanites, each facing his own personal crisis, in Jon Steinhagen’s microcosmic portrait of the worst meteorological disaster in Chicago memory. MSB
Don’t Act Like a Girl, Annoyance Theatre, through Feb. 12. Wes Perry’s one-man and a band memoir of growing up gay and heavily medicated on prescription is an eminently enjoyable journey of great comic timing and reflection. SCM
Love and Money, Steep Theatre, through 25. Dennis Kelly’s fragmentary and backwards-moving British drama about a couple torn asunder by excessive debt is an unsettling and timely work examining the dangers and perniciousness of easy credit. Steep Theatre delivers a fine Midwest premiere. SCM
Penelope, Steppenwolf, through Feb. 5. The view of four decidedly middle-aged straight men in Speedos is scary, but Enda Walsh packs poetry as well as testosterone into this dark comedy of four suitors wooing Penelope as she awaits Ulysses on a sun-washed, modern Greek isle. JA
—By Abarbanel, Barnidge
and Morgan