Ewing Cultural Center

Saturday is the final day for Rader Family Farms' B.Y.O.Flashlight night maze.

The final two tours of the season are coming up at Ewing Cultural Center.

"Macbeth" was last produced at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in 2013. The so-called Scottish play was originally scheduled for 2020 and is only now finding its way back into rotation.

For 46 years, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival has brought the works of the Bard to Bloomington-Normal residents — and beyond.

Illinois Shakes newcomer Geoffrey Warren Barnes II and Adonis Perez-Escobar play some of the silliest characters this season. Getting the comic relief right is not as easy as it looks.

As per tradition, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival puts on two Shakespeare plays, reserving a third slot for someone else. Now playing at Ewing Cultural Center, Lauren Gunderson's "Book of Will" is the true story of how Shakespeare's friends banded together to posthumously publish the Bard's works.

Scenic designer and professor John C. Stark has retired after 32 years at the helm of Illinois State University's scenic design program. In this career retrospective, Stark notes crossing paths with legendary faculty at the beginning of his tenure and other notable memories.

The director of Ewing Cultural Center has some advice if you’re planning to visit the historic property in Bloomington to take prom photos this spring. The first tip: Call ahead to make sure it’s open for you.

Famed late night TV entertainer Johnny Carson once joked that there is only one fruitcake in the world and people just keep mailing it to each other. If so, this could be that fruitcake.

The Illinois Shakespeare Festival is announcing its 45th season, returning to a full slate of three plays for the first time in two years. Summers at Ewing Cultural Center will feel a lot more normal as the festival resumes pre-pandemic operations.