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Mar
30
Sun
Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult – Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Mar 30 @ 9:00 pm – Apr 13 @ 10:00 pm

Chicago Shakespeare Festival

March 30 – April 13, 2014

Adaptor/Director: Emma Rice

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Lauded all around the world for its trademark vitality, the artistic collective from Cornwall, England, Kneehigh makes its long-awaited Chicago debut with the iconic work that first catapulted the company to international fame. Marrying gorgeous music and ingenious staging with cheeky humor and Wagnerian intensity, Kneehigh now reimagines one of the world’s oldest love stories. Cornish King Mark is at war; he rules with his head, not his heart. But he hasn’t counted on falling head over heels for his enemy’s sister, or expected the arrival of the enigmatic Tristan.

 

 

Apr
29
Tue
Henry V – Chicago Shakespeare
Apr 29 @ 9:00 pm – Jun 15 @ 10:00 pm

Chicago Shakespeare Festival

April 29 – June 15, 2014

Director: Christopher Luscombe

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“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!” In a rousing finale to the 2014 season, Shakespeare’s powerful history play takes center stage in our magnificent Courtyard Theater for the very first time. Acclaimed British director Christopher Luscombe, whose work has been featured at the Royal Shakespeare Company, sheds new light on the Bard’s legendary coming-of-age story. Against all odds, a charismatic young monarch confronted by the ferocity of war proves his worth as a man—and king. Henry V is Shakespeare’s rallying cry, celebrating the power of language to summon battlefields from thin air and ignite our souls to action.

 

 

May
16
Fri
Comedy of Errors – Shakespeare in the Park, NYC
May 16 @ 5:45 pm – Oct 26 @ 6:45 pm
May
21
Wed
King John, Stratford, Ontario
May 21 @ 8:45 pm – Sep 20 @ 9:45 pm

King John

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Carroll


Tom Patterson Theatre

May 21 
to September 20
Opens May 28

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About The Play
War is the inevitable result when the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favour of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute to a political and personal turmoil that finds devastating expression in an anguished mother’s grief for her son.

Jun
3
Tue
Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare in the Park
Jun 3 @ 7:00 am – Jul 6 @ 8:00 am

Shakespeare In The Park

June 3 – July 6, 2014

Directed by Jack O’Brien
Lily Rabe as Beatrice
Hamish Linklater as Benedick
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Hamish Linklater and Tony® nominee Lily Rabe return to the Park this summer as the wise-cracking, would-be lovers Beatrice and Benedick in the beloved romantic comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Central Park becomes sun-drenched Sicily at the turn of the last century, where the heat of summer ignites the fevered passions of lovesick ladies in corsets and pining gentlemen spying from the verandah. Three-time Tony winner Jack O’Brien directs this delightful skirmish of wit between two self-declared bachelors tricked by their mischief-making friends into falling in love against their will and in spite of their own hearts.

Jul
22
Tue
King Lear, Shakespeare in the Park
Jul 22 @ 7:00 am – Aug 17 @ 8:00 am

Shakespeare In The Park

July 22 – August 17, 2014

Directed by Daniel Sullivan
John Lithgow as Lear

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Revenge, rage, grief and delusion thunder upon the Delacorte as Tony® and Emmy® Award winner John Lithgow takes the stage as one of theater’s great tragic heroes, KING LEAR. Tony winner Daniel Sullivan directs Shakespeare’s classic drama about a King who loses everything—including his mind—when he disowns his favorite daughter, and finds himself betrayed in return.