15 Chicago theater shows to see in June

The arrival of summer weather shouldn’t deter you from checking out a stellar lineup of theater happenings around town in June. Pride Month is appropriately headlined by the world premier of Ms. Blakk for President, an original play from the Oscar-winning writer of Moonlight, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and director Tina Landau, in which McCraney also stars as real-life Chicago drag queen Joan Jett Blakk. There’s also a revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Theo Ubique, a docudrama-style play about the band Pussy Riot and a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel Emma. You’d be a fool to spend all of June huddled up inside, but once you’ve had enough sun for the day, make sure to check out these critic-picked plays and musicals that Chicago theaters have on tap this month.