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Sep 25, 2023 · 400 Years of the First Folio: Shakespeare in Chicago. by Barbara Bruins September 25, 2023. In 1623, The First Folio of Shakespeare was published by Isaac Jaggard under the supervision of two of Shakespeare's friends and company members, John Heminges and Henry Condell. The First Folio is considered the best source for almost all of Shakespeare ...
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater often utilizes the First Folio as the basis for its play scripts. The First Folio still serves as a manual for Shakespearean actors nearly 400 years after its publication because the plays as printed in the First Folio took theatrical documents as their basis for printing. Its punctuation, capitalizations, variant ...
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SHAKESPEARE'S RARELY SEEN DARK COMEDY by William Shakespeare | directed by Shana Cooper in the Courtyard Theater April 22-May 29, 2022
WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT Based on the Universal Pictures film | book, music and lyrics by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair | directed by Laura Braza in the theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare June 22-July 24, 2022
FREE COMMUNITY REIMAGINING created in collaboration with community arts partners on tour to neighborhood parks across Chicago July 2022
WORLD PREMIERE NEW MUSICAL music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson | book by Bekah Brunstetter | based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks | directed by Michael Greif and Schele Williams in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare September 6-October 16, 2022
SEARING SHAKESPEARE SET IN CUBA by William Shakespeare | directed by Henry Godinez in the Courtyard Theater October 21-November 27, 2022 STUDENTS IN CONVERSATION WITH SHAKESPEARE Chicago Shakespeare SLAM in high schools across the region and onstage at Chicago Shakespeare January 2023
WORLDSTAGE RETURNS TO CHICAGO A co-production with The National Theatre, Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic and York Theatre Royal in association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre based on the novel by Emily Brontë | adapted & directed by Emma Rice in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare January 26-February 19, 2023
GAINES' FINAL PRODUCTION AS ARTISTIC DIRCTOR by William Shakespeare | adapted & directed by Barbara Gaines | Shakespeare Studio scenes by Ron West in the Courtyard Theater March 10-April 16, 2023
Only 235 copies of the First Folio are known to survive—one in the holdings at Chicago’s Newberry Library. Unlocking Shakespeare’s text using the clues in the First Folio has been at the core of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines’ approach to directing, and the method upon which the Theater’s reputation for clarity of language emerged.
