Illinois Shakespeare Festival

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.

Improved COVID-19 numbers means a bigger audience at Ewing Theater than previously allowed for this year’s Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

Last year, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival was obliged to pull the plug on its season due to the pandemic.The hope was the already-planned 2020 season…

Social media and the 24-hour news cycle are the battlefields of political warfare in "Caesar," a modern take on the classic tragedy by Shakespeare, now…

This summer, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival presents an original staging of a great romantic classic. In this corner, we have Mr. Darcy, representing…

The play’s the thing at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. And this season, the plays we know so well have a new look and a fresh perspective to thrill…

A fresh look at classic stories will drive the 2019 Illinois Shakespeare Festival season.Love and complications abound in “As You Like It” and “Pride and…

There will be an excess of talent on stage at this summer’s Illinois Shakespeare Festival. World-class actors performing some of the most eloquent…

This season of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival deftly combines the thrill of both a battle and a heart won, familiar faces revisiting cherished roles,…

With energy, humor and hip hop verse, Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece Romeo and Juliet moves to a new rhythm created by the Q Brothers Collective for…