Photo: American Players Theatre

1
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
(Kokandy Productions)
The shooting-star musical storefront kicks off the follow-up to its landmark season with this celebration of sixties counterculture.
Opens July 2

2
As You Like It
(American Players Theatre)
This centerpiece production of the Wisconsin Shakespeare stalwarts’ season comes right on the heels of winning the Tony for Regional Theatre.
Through October 4

3
Hamlet
(Austin Gardens)
Oak Park Festival Theatre’s producing artistic director Peter Andersen directs this production in Oak Park’s “Secret Garden,” “where the world of the play meets the rhythms of the park.”
Opens July 1

4
Shane
(City Lit)
City Lit stages a world-premiere adaptation of a 1949 western by Jack Schaefer, about a mysterious stranger’s arrival at the doorstep of a family in the Wyoming Territory.
Opens August 21

5
& Juliet
(Broadway in Chicago)
What would happen if Juliet survived her ill-fated Verona romance and remade her life in Paris, all set to boy bands and pop-star anthems?
Opens July 22