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Home » Chicago Shakespeare Theater

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Thaddeus Phillips in Zoo Motel
Posted inArts & Culture

Zoo Motel and The Journey take us away from it all

by Kerry Reid January 14, 2021August 18, 2021

Links Hall and Chicago Shakespeare host two virtual interactive shows on isolation and connection.

Posted inArts & Culture

In Six, Henry VIII’s wives come back as pop divas

by Sheri Flanders May 29, 2019August 18, 2021

Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived—and slaying.

Posted inArts & Culture

A new Hamlet puts the prince of Denmark in a context all too familiar to many Chicagoans

by KT Hawbaker May 1, 2019August 18, 2021

Chicago Shakespeare’s staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.

Posted inArts & Culture

Leave the Light On

by Matthew Gilson March 29, 2019August 18, 2021

The ghost light, a single bulb in an empty theater, is for safety—and superstition.

Posted inArts & Culture

Two Pints pays tribute to human resilience and the power of Guinness

by Catey Sullivan March 13, 2019August 18, 2021

This Abbey Theatre import is unexpectedly wonderful.

Posted inArts & Culture

Here are 19 shows to get you into the holiday spirit

by Julia Clausen November 29, 2018August 18, 2021

Christmas trains, elves, bingo, showgirls, and many, many carols, plus the Quranic perspective and Hanukkah goblins.

Posted inArts & Culture

Circolombia’s Acéléré is a story of old-fashioned romance and bodies launched into space by other bodies

by Tony Adler October 30, 2018August 18, 2021

The hour-long circus from Bogotá runs as part of the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival.

Posted inArts & Culture

Nell Gwynn is so breezy it almost floats away

by Justin Hayford October 2, 2018August 18, 2021

Despite the best efforts of Chicago Shakespeare, the story lacks purpose.

Posted inArts & Culture

BigMouth asks you to consider what Socrates, Malcolm X, and Ann Coulter have in common

by Tony Adler September 18, 2018August 18, 2021

Valentijn Dhaenens’s one-man show is designed to start a conversation.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago Shakespeare presents an amped-up Midsummer Night’s Dream in the parks, the way it was sort of meant to be

by Tony Adler August 1, 2018August 18, 2021

Barbara Gaines’s adaptation includes hip-hop faeries, a cute lion, and abundant Chicagoiana.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago Shakespeare’s Peter Pan is a soaring delight for both kids and adults

by Marissa Oberlander July 11, 2018August 18, 2021

You may have to explain afterward that flying without a harness should not be attempted at home.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago Doomed & Stoned Festival and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

by Katie Powers June 1, 2018August 18, 2021

A screening of Full Metal Jacket in 35mm and more goings-on 6/1-6/3.

Posted inArts & Culture

After all these years, we’re still Waiting for Godot

by Tony Adler May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Ireland’s Druid Theatre brings Samuel Beckett’s forever-relevant play to Chicago.

Posted inArts & Culture

Aaron Posner and Teller’s Macbeth is no Tempest

by Tony Adler May 9, 2018August 18, 2021

But the new Chicago Shakespeare production makes a worthwhile storm of its own.

Posted inArts & Culture

Two British monarchs duke it out in Schiller’s Mary Stuart

by Tony Adler March 7, 2018August 18, 2021

A pair of 16th century queens explore what it means to be a woman in a so-called man’s profession.

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