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Local theater companies aren't suffering as badly as the nationwide trends, but without more financial support, they can't afford to go pro.
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"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.
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For 46 years, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival has brought the works of the Bard to Bloomington-Normal residents — and beyond.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Illinois Shakespeare Festival announced its 2023 season Thursday during a live-streamed event from Stave in Uptown Normal. The festival begins next June with “The Comedy of Errors,” “The Tempest,” and Lauren Gunderson’s 2017 play, “The Book of Will” running in rotation through August.
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The Illinois Shakespeare Festival is back to pre-pandemic operations with “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” opening the season in June and, through Aug. 5, a rotation of “King Lear” and “Much Ado About Nothing” — both well worth seeing.
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The Illinois Shakespeare Festival opens this weekend and fulfills a long-awaited promise with the return of “The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged).” The festival favorite, originally scheduled for 2020, finds ISF veterans Thomas Quinn and David Kortemeier batting the Bard’s witty banter around one last time, this time with ISF newbie Adonis Perez-Escobar as their trusty side kick.
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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.