A global theater reflective of the world-class city of Chicago, Chicago Shakespeare Theater attracts and entertains audiences from all walks of life and across the globe. Each season, the Theater reaches nearly 225,000 audience members through an average year that includes as many as 18 productions and 650 performances. From discerning local subscribers to young families to school groups from across the Midwest, Chicago Shakespeare is a crossroads for diverse audiences. Similarly, our Corporate Sponsorship Opportunities provide your company with a wide variety of unique privileges designed to increase your company recognition, provide special client entertaining, enhance your employee benefits, and heighten community relations.
Production and Programmatic Sponsorships range from $25,000 to $350,000, with benefits customized to meet the needs of your corporate giving philosophy and business goals. Joining the Chicago Shakespeare Family will place your company alongside the following leaders of Chicago’s business and philanthropic communities:
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Guarantors: $100,000+
BMO Harris Bank
The Boeing Company
Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Julius Frankel Foundation
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Poetry Foundation
Benefactors: $50,000 - $99,999
Allstate Insurance Company
Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
City of Chicago
ComEd and Exelon
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
ITW
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
KPMG LLP
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Polk Bros. Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sustainers: $25,000 - $49,999
Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
Helen Brach Foundation
Bulley & Andrews
Chicago Shakespeare Theater Fund at The Chicago Community Trust
Commercial Club of Chicago
DCASE
The Crown Family
First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.
HMS Media, Inc.
Illinois Arts Council Agency
Mazza Foundation
Northern Trust
Peoples Gas Community Fund
Prince Charitable Trusts
Shakespeare in American Communities: National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest
Partners: $10,000 - $24,999
Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Fifth Third Bank
John R. Halligan Charitable Fund
The Irving Harris Foundation
Mayer Brown LLP
Newcastle Limited
Ropes & Gray LLP
William Blair
Wintrust
Anonymous
Partners: $5,000 - $9,999
American Express
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Charles and M. R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc.
Perkins Coie LLP
Ventas
Anonymous
Partners: $1,000 - $4,999
Citi Private Bank
JCCC Foundation
Kovler Family Foundation
National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Frank Young Fund for New Musicals
corporate Entertaining at CST
Many members of Chicago’s business community have chosen Chicago Shakespeare Theater as the ideal venue to entertain their employees and clients because our corporate partners can enjoy an event created to fit their exact needs.
Partner in Literacy
For more than 20 years, we have partnered with CPS, working with schools and teachers to unlock the language of Shakespeare.