Kokandy Productions

06/18/2026

HAIR Music Director Kara Olander is ready to rock! 🎹❤️‍🔥

The show starts July 2. You coming? ☮️🏳️‍🌈😍

06/17/2026

Join The Understudy and Kokandy Productions for the latest installment of our BOOK CLUB series! 📚☕️

Because you know we’ve always depended on the kindness of bookstores…

Summer is here—the air thick with music, perfume and sweltering heat. It’s Tennessee Williams weather! Book Club is back, storming into town like a long lost sister you thought you’d never see. We’re tickled to tackle A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Williams’ masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of Blanche, Stella, Stanley and all their New Orleans friends. Inspired by what is widely considered one of the best plays of the 20th century, we’ll use music to celebrate sisterhood, southern hospitality and standing in the middle of the street to scream your lover’s name. It’ll have you hollerin’ “Book Club! Boooook Club!!!”

Monday, July 13 @ 7:30PM

Kokandy Book Club is an intimate salon series celebrating theatre, music and community. Each meeting will focus on a well known play—investigating the plot, themes and relevant tangents through a mix of musical theatre and pop/rock performance. Have a sit, have a sip and honor the ritual of talking about good plays and having a good ole fashion jam session.

🎭 Doors open at 7 PM for a 7:30 PM performance.
☕️ The Understudy Cafe will be open for refreshments.

🎟️ Space is limited, and this event usually sells out! Get your tickets now to reserve your spot. Tickets available on Eventbrite and the Understudy website. 🎟️

📚 PS… Book Club is NOT a reading of the book or play. It is a cabaret-style set list of songs inspired by the original text, interspersed with commentary, fun facts, excerpts from the script and other thematically-relevant material. The runtime is usually 75-90 minutes. It’s fun. Trust. 😘

06/14/2026

The revolution may not be televised… but it can still have a soundtrack. 🎧🎶 Director/Choreographer Brennan Urbi has curated this hippy trippy mix celebrating community and counterculture past, present and future! ☮️❤️‍🔥🪧

Check out the full HAIR playlist in the comments and get ready for a Summer of Love 🏳️‍🌈☀️

06/12/2026

HAIR Director / Choreographer Brennan Urbi is ready to:

✅ Explore
✅ Build
✅ Fight
✅ Reverberate

The action starts July 2. You coming? 👀🎟️

📸 Kyle Bode

06/10/2026

LOW TICKET ALERT 🚨 Berger’s brain is melting!

We’ve got less than 50 tickets remaining for preview performances of HAIR! 🤯😱 If you wanna catch the show before July 18, better grab yours soon! 🎭🎟️

06/10/2026

And this is only half of the cast 😱❤️‍🔥🤩

HAIR tickets are going fast! Celebrate a summer of love and get yours now. The party starts July 2! 🎟️🎭

06/03/2026

Good Morning Starshine! ✨ HAIR is here—and we wanna spend the summer with you! Come play ☮️💖😍 bit.ly/HairChicago

Joshua Emmanuel is Hud
Amy Yesom Kim is Crissy
Chosen Mitchell is Dionne
Catherine Rodriguez O’Connor is Sheila
Gavin Rhys is Claude
Zac Richey is Berger
Nicki Rossi is Jeannie
Stone Teselle is Woof

THE PARTY STARTS JULY 2. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! 🎟️❤️‍🔥

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06/02/2026

Save the date! JEKYLL & HYDE will be performing with Broadway In Chicago at their annual Summer Concert, celebrating their current and upcoming seasons! 🥳🥳🥳

Mon, Aug 10 @ 6:15PM
Millennium Park

This FREE concert will feature performances from The Notebook, The Outsiders, Waitress, Operation Mincemeat and more!

Broadway In Chicago announced its free annual SUMMER CONCERT at Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, featuring performances from eight productions including THE NOTEBOOK, THE OUTSIDERS, WAITRESS, JERSEY BOYS, and MAYBE HAPPY ENDING.

06/02/2026

"What a gift it is to be together in a room, taking in a piece of art, having communal and singular experiences at the same time."

Tickets are now on sale for SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE! Get yours @ bit.ly/SundayChicago

Kokandy Productions will present SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE at Chicago's Chopin Downstairs Studio, marking the first Chicago storefront production of the Sondheim-Lapine musical in over 15 years.