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Contemporary and classical pop culture converge in the multimedia production MacHomer. The one-person show, which tells the story of ShakespeareÂ’s Macbeth through the characters of the television series The Simpsons, begins previews at the Studio Theatre on May 2. (more...)

After sell-out seasons in the UK and the USA, ScotlandÂ’s smash hit musical rom-com, MIDSUMMER (A PLAY WITH SONGS), arrives at La Boite next Tuesday following a run at the Sydney Opera House. Check out the promotional video with audience interviews below! (more...)

After sell-out seasons in the UK and the USA, ScotlandÂ’s smash hit musical rom-com, MIDSUMMER (A PLAY WITH SONGS), arrives at La Boite next Tuesday following a run at the Sydney Opera House. (more...)

New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts will present the award-winning writer and performer Rick Miller in two New York premieres including the hit MacHomer (March 30—31) and Bigger Than Jesus (April 4—7). (more...)

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson announced today CST's 2012/13 Season, which begins with a new production of Sunday in the Park with George by musical team Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, and also includes the Chicago premiere of The School for Lies by playwright David Ives and productions of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Henry VIII. The Theater's extensive World's Stage lineup of international programming for 2012/13 ranges from the American premiere of A History of Everything by Belgian company Ontroerend Goed to the return of the National Theatre of Scotland's internationally acclaimed Black Watch and its inventive, supernatural The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. CST's annual CST Family programming kicks off this summer with Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Additional productions will be announced for the 2012/13 Season later this summer, including an ongoing collaboration between Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Australia's one step at a time like this (en route) creating for the City of Chicago a world premiere pedestrian-based live art event inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and set in the city's urban landscape. (more...)

Soho Theatre's Season begins with a vibrant and packed programme spanning Theatre, Comedy and Cabaret performed across three performane spaces (and the seminar room). (more...)

Artistic Director, Steve Marmion has announced the next season at Soho Theatre; with a vibrant and packed programme spanning Theatre, Comedy and Cabaret performed across three performane spaces (and the seminar room). (more...)

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's North American premiere of en route hits city streets from July 12 to August 13, 2011. (more...)

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's North American premiere of en route hits city streets from July 12 to August 13, 2011. (more...)

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's North American premiere of en route hits city streets beginning July 11, 2011. (more...)

Cast members of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) acclaimed "hip-hoptation" Funk It Up About Nothin', now on tour Down Under in Sydney, Australia, have recorded a hip-hop anthem for the country's beloved Australian Football League (AFL) team the Sydney Swans. (more...)

?Straight from a six-week tour of Australia, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) acclaimed Funk It Up About Nothin' makes its London debut at Theatre Royal Stratford East beginning April 8, 2011. (more...)

Cast members of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) acclaimed "hip-hoptation" Funk It Up About Nothin', now on tour Down Under in Sydney, Australia, have recorded a hip-hop anthem for the country's beloved Australian Football League (AFL) team the Sydney Swans. (more...)

Years before Coppola’s Godfather enthralled a nation and decades before “Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire” fed viewers’ insatiable appetites for serial gangster melodrama, the yakuza (Japanese mafia) were mainstays of the Japanese film industry. (more...)

With 10 world premieres and 8 UK premieres, Norfolk and Norwich Festival unveils an exciting full programme for 2011 (more...)

?Straight from a six-week tour of Australia, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) acclaimed Funk It Up About Nothin' makes its London debut at Theatre Royal Stratford East beginning April 8, 2011. (more...)

Years before Coppola’s Godfather enthralled a nation and decades before “Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire” fed viewers’ insatiable appetites for serial gangster melodrama, the yakuza (Japanese mafia) were mainstays of the Japanese film industry. (more...)

?Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) Funk It Up About Nothin'-an exuberant "hip-hoptation" of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing-thrills audiences Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare and closes February 13, 2011, before embarking on an Australian tour from February 23 through April 2, 2011. (more...)

?Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) Funk It Up About Nothin'—an exuberant "hip-hoptation" of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing—thrills audiences Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare from January 21 through February 13, 2011, before embarking on an Australian tour from February 23 through April 2, 2011. (more...)

?Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) Funk It Up About Nothin'—an exuberant hip-hop "ad-rap-tation" of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing—will thrill audiences in New York City, Chicago and Australia in the New Year. (more...)