Press Room

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Partners with Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago To Commemorate the Year of Italian Culture in America with Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Teatro d’Europa Teatro di Roma and Teatri Uniti’s INNER VOICES.  By Eduardo De Filippo. Directed by and Featuring Toni Servillo.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the City of Chicago Celebrate Shakespeare’s 449th Birthday—Mayor Emanuel Proclaims Tuesday, April 23 Talk Like Shakespeare Day. Civic, Cultural and Corporate Partnership Announces Expanded Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks Program With Citywide Tour of The Comedy of Errors.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s World’s Stage Series Presents Timely American Premiere of A Site-specific Performance Revealing the Brutality of Sex Trafficking Roadkill. May 11–26, 2013.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Othello: The Remix Extended by Popular Demand. Through June 15, 2013. Production Draws New Audiences,Returns to London this Fall.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Announces First Professional Chicago Production of William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII 400 Years after 1613 Premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe, Staged by Artistic Director Barbara Gaines. April 30–June 16, 2013 in CST’s Courtyard Theater 

Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Market Theatre in Johannesburg Host the World Premiere of Cadre Opening at The Market Theatre on South Africa’s Human Rights Day, March 21, 2013

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Hosts Education Forum Series in Continued Partnership With Golden Apple and National Louis University, Beyond These Times: Reimagining School. March 18 and May 21, 2013.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Announces Two Upcoming Productions Othello: The Remix and Shrek The Musical

Chicago Shakespeare Theater,Benito Juarez Community Academy Performing Arts Center and Latinos Progresando Announce a Concert Performance of In the Heights To Feature Members and Artists of the Pilsen Community at Benito Juarez Community Academy Performing Arts Center in Pilsen, Monday, April 8 at 7 p.m.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Announces Casting for Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, Adapted and Directed by Rachel Rockwell, Saturdays at 11 a.m. from February 23 to March 23, 2013

Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Market Theatre in South Africa host the world premieres of Cadre, written by Omphile Molusi, in Chicago as part of the World’s Stage Series, February 15–23, 2013

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Announces Casting for Julius Caesar, Staged by British Director Jonathan Munby In his Chicago Debut, February 5–March 24, 2013

In the Face of Police Raids Last Month in Minsk, Belarus Free Theatre Brings Newest Political Piece Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker To Chicago Shakespeare Theater January 30–February 3, 2013

Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Chicago Chamber Musicians Present 11th Annual Concert Collaboration, Leave It to Ludwig by Bruce Adolphe

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Announces 2013 World’s Stage Presentations: Stories from Belarus, South Africa, Nigeria and Italy Come to Chicago

Chicago Shakespeare Joins International Dickens 2012 Celebration with World’s Stage Presentation of Dickens’ Women, Featuring Miriam Margolyes

Chicago Shakespeare extends Sunday in the Park with George

Chicago Shakespeare Receives Folger Shakespeare Library’s Shakespeare Steward Award

Chicago Shakespeare presents CPS Shakespeare! Hamlet November 2 and 3, 2012

Chicago’s Shakespeare Theater Awes Art Institute of Chicago Visitors With Surprise Performance of its Upcoming Musical Sunday in the Park with George

Chicago Shakespeare Theater World's Stage Program in Scottish Exchange

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Announces Casting for 2012 Fall Season: Sunday in the Park with George and The School for Lies

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Culminates 25th Anniversary Season Gala Raises Nearly $1 Million For Education and Civic Engagement Programs

Chicago Muse Closing Gift Inaugurates New Music Theater Development Endowed Fund At Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Cultural, Civic and Corporate Partnership Launches Bold Initiative—Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago Park District and The Boeing Company present Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks

Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents Disney's Beauty and the Beast

From Belgium Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents the American Premiere of ONTROEREND GOED's A History of Everything, May 22–June 3, 2012

Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Q Brothers follow "Globe to Globe" Festival at London's 2012 Cultural Olympiad with engagements at Germany's Shakespeare im Globe Neuss Festival and Scotland's Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces 2012/13 Season

Chicago Public Schools' partnership with Chicago Shakespeare Theater showcased at National Council of Teachers of English 100th annual convention