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Improved COVID-19 numbers means a bigger audience at Ewing Theater than previously allowed for this year’s Illinois Shakespeare Festival.
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DatebookLast 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…
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DatebookSocial 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…
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DatebookThis summer, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival presents an original staging of a great romantic classic. In this corner, we have Mr. Darcy, representing…
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DatebookThe 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…
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DatebookA 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…
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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…
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This season of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival deftly combines the thrill of both a battle and a heart won, familiar faces revisiting cherished roles,…
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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…
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When Shakespeare first wrote Cymbeline in 1623, it was well received. But by the 18th century, the play had fallen out of favor.Audiences found it…