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The Lord of the Rings is back this summer!
The WhatsOnStage Award-winning production of The Lord of the Rings is set to make its US debut this summer.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s artistic director Edward Hall and executive director Kimberly Motes confirmed the news today that the Watermill Theatre’s new staging will debut at The Yard, running from 19 July to 1 September 2024.
The American production will be directed by Paul Hart, who created and helmed the piece here in the UK in 2023.
More information on the theatre's page.
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"I kept saying to the artistic directors, 'So why aren't you doing Shakespeare?'" Gaines said. "They would say, 'What are you kidding? I want to make money.' But when you have passion, it keeps bubbling up. You can't suppress a passion."
That passion bubbled up to the roof of Lincoln Park's Red Lion Pub, where in 1986, she directed "Henry V," holding her breath.
"I was afraid that there would be rain on the roof of the pub," Gaines said. "We only could play for two or three weeks."
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Illinoise, music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.
This show is absolutely spectacular! The otherworldly choreography is expertly executed by a supremely talented cast of dancers. The vocals, of Sufjan Stevens' songs, are exceptional, in a visually stunning production.
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Save me Chicago Shakespeare 2015 Production Nischa..,,,,…,, save me Chicago Shakespeare 2015 Production Nisha..,,,, ough they make me ill in the head I tell you ough
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As part of the Summer Shakespeare Festival in August 2004, University Theater staged The Winter’s Tale in Hutchinson Courtyard. Susanna Gellert, AB’99, currently lecturer in directing at Yale, directed this production of one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays.”
Photography by Amber Lee Mason, AB’03
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#Drunk Shakespeare#King carl fuck yeah#Chicago theater#Honestly I don't know what to put but I had a lot of fun and felt the need to post about it.#Big Dick Rich(ard) aka Fleance
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One of the leads just came out, pointed at the rainbow, and shouted "I think it's gonna be a real gay show tonight!"
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I don’t know if you saw, but Eddie Izzard is doing a two-week run at the Chicago Shakespeare theater doing a one-woman show of Hamlet. I know you’re a big fan, so I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out!
HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT
I didn't think she'd be back in Chicago for honestly years. TICKET ACQUIRED. I'm going on Thursday!
I wish there was a non-creepy way to inform her that there are very few shows for which I break my embargo on Chicago Shakes. And, having taken THREE TRIES to buy the ticket, I see their box office is still just the pinnacle of high-quality customer service...
ANYWAY very excited and thank you VERY much for the heads up!
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater, one of the companies that commissioned “Illinois,” will present the show in January 2024.
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The Lord of the Rings - Seat Plan, Tickets and Prices
The Lord of the Rings will premiere in the US this summer! The show is scheduled to run at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s The Yard from 19 July to 1 September 2024.
Here's what you need to know:
Dates:
previews from 19 to 25 July 2024
opening night on 26 July 2024
closing night on 1 September 2024
Times:
performances from Tuesdays to Saturdays at 7pm
performances on Sundays at 2pm
additional matinees on Wednesdays (1pm) and Saturdays (2pm)
Special performances:
Open Captioning: 21 August 2024 (both)
ASL Interpretation: 23 August 2024
Audio Description: 25 August 2024
Tickets:
Tickets are on sale NOW and going fast! You can purchase them on the theatre's website. If you need recommendations for seats, you can check out this website.
This is the seat plan, coloured price bands added by me:
red - $68-$125
green - $59-$110
blue - $50-$99
pink - $44-$88
orange - $41-$79
The handling fee per ticket is $6. Ticket prices vary according to the date of the performance. Here are three rules:
Previews are less expensive than performances after opening night.
The first week of performances after opening night is less expensive than the following weeks.
Weekdays are less expensive than weekends.
TICKETS HERE!
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So how does an actor start to find a connection to such a determined villain? “I am someone who understands ambition,” says Katy Sullivan, who plays Richard in Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s new production, running February 2 to March 3. “The first thing you have to do is [ask], What is that tiny little rock-climbing handhold that you have in common with the character, however different from you they are? Ambition is sort of my connection to him at this point.”
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The career of the actor Andre Braugher, who has died of lung cancer aged 61, was benchmarked by two performances in police dramas a generation apart. In the groundbreaking drama Homicide: Life on the Street, from 1993 until 1999, he played Detective Frank Pembleton, whose drive immediately made him the anchor of an impressive ensemble cast led by Yaphet Kotto and Ned Beatty. He drew a younger audience with the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-21) as Captain Ray Holt, who takes over a chaotic homicide squad and whose intensity again makes him the heart of the show.
Braugher’s deep, resonant voice and seemingly effortless control drew the respect of all he worked with. David Simon, creator of Homicide and The Wire, said: “I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful actors. I’ll never work with one better.” His classical training, at the Juilliard School in New York, made him a regular at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, and indeed his portrayal of Henry V in 1996 won him an Obie (the off-Broadway equivalent of the Tony awards).
He brought the projection of the stage to the small screen. Pembleton was the master of “the Box”, or the interrogation room. He explained to his rookie partner in Homicide (played by Kyle Secor), it was “salesmanship … as silver tongued and thieving as ever moved used cars, Florida swamp land or Bibles. But what I am selling is a long prison sentence.” He dominated those small scenes, but the episode Subway, with Vincent D’Onofrio as a character pushed between subway trains, who will die once the trains are separated, was a two-hander whose intensity might have come from the stage of Beckett, Pinter or Mamet.
In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, as Holt, he played it straight in two senses. The adage of comedy being funniest when played straight gained resonance from Braugher’s ability to show the audience with a gesture or line-reading that he, like you, got the joke. But Holt is also gay. His gayness is never an issue, except as motivation for his progress within the police. It was as if Pembleton were stepping into Kotto’s “Gee” Giardello, a black man with an Italian father who was determined to rise in a white-dominated department.
This drive reflected Braugher’s own background. In the tough neighbourhood of Austin, on Chicago’s West Side, both his parents worked for the government; his father, Floyd, was a heavy equipment operator for the state of Illinois, and his mother, Sally, worked for the US Postal Service. He recalled he might have “pretended I was hard and tough and not square”, but he won scholarships to the Jesuit St Ignatius College prep and then to study mathematics at Stanford University, California. After walking into a student production of Hamlet, and playing Claudius, he decided he wanted to act.
Another scholarship took him to Juilliard. He graduated in 1988 and almost immediately was cast in a TV revival of Kojak, as his assistant. His first film role came in Glory (1989); he was so impressive as the educated Thomas Searles, forced to serve as a private soldier in the all-black regiment commanded by his white friend, that Hollywood came calling, but the parts were standard stereotyical roles. His father had questioned how a black actor would make a living, and Braugher later explained: “I’d rather not work than do a part I’m ashamed of.”
He played the lead in a TV movie, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990), playing Robinson, the first African-American player in major league baseball, who earlier in the 1940s, as a US army lieutenant, had refused to ride in the back of a segregated bus; and appeared in another TV film, The Tuskegee Airmen (1995). He was an egotistical actor in Spike Lee’s Get On the Bus (1996), about the Million Man March on Washington DC the year before. In 1998 he won his first Emmy award for playing Pembleton; he was nominated 11 times, and won his second in 2006 for his role in the miniseries Thief.
After Homicide, he starred as a doctor in Gideon’s Crossing (2000-01), as a cop in Hack (2002-04), as a car dealer in the comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2009-11) and as the captain of a submarine which goes on the run after he refuses to obey orders to fire nuclear missiles in Last Resort (2012-13). He had another series of remarkable two-handers in a recurring role as Hugh Laurie’s psychiatrist in House, was a defense attorney in episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and voiced Governor Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz in the animated comedy BoJack Horseman.
He made the most of supporting roles in films such as Primal Fear (as Richard Gere’s investigator), Poseidon (captain of the sinking liner), Salt (as the US secretary of defense) and most notably as a New York Times editor in She Said (2022), covering the Harvey Weinstein scandal. He also starred in 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002), the story of the unionisation of Pullman railway porters, who were always called “George” by passengers.
Braugher admitted that his career “could have been larger, but it would have been at the expense of my own life”. He lived in suburban New Jersey with his wife, the actor Ami Brabson (who played Pembleton’s wife in Homicide). He said he wanted his three sons, Michael, Isaiah and John Wesley, raised in a “true context”, away from being a movie star’s offspring in Hollywood.
He is survived by his wife and sons, his brother, Charles, and his mother.
🔔 Andre Keith Braugher, actor, born 1 July 1962; died 11 December 2023
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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 1A
A wildcard addition to our Broadway-based poll, Janet McTeer (1961) is a Tony-winning actress for her performance as Nora in the 1997 revival of A Doll's House (and this production actually had a real live set... Not to mention the talents of the late Jan Maxwell). Janet has appeared on Broadway five times (fun fact: four of the theaters begin with the letter B) in shows such as Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2016) and Bernhard/Hamlet (2018). She also appeared in the all-female Shakespeare in the Park production of The Taming of the Shrew as a Petruchio, and my oh my was she hot.
Brenda Braxton (1956) is a Tony-nominated actress for Smokey Joe's Cafe (1995)with eleven Broadway shows to her name, and she, like many Chicago stars, has been in and out of that show many, many, many times. Lady Braxton has also directed and choreographed various productions of Dreamgirls. Brenda is a major advocate for aging gracefully, and has launched "Act 2...Now What?" a series of seminars for women over fifty transitioning to a post-menopausal life. Her quarterly subscription box, Pause, provides "women of a certain age" with products like tea blends, chocolates, lotions, and yes, vibrators.
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"Janet McTeer is six-foot-one, and I want to climb her like a tree. This is a woman who can be hot as all hell whether she's tits up and out in a corseted sex play, or legit masc and flirting with ladies in a Shakespeare adaptation. With all these screen actresses who keep coming to Broadway, when are we bringing Janet McTeer back?"
"This woman is in her late sixties and can still cartwheel across a stage without breaking a sweat. Talk about aging gracefully. Her instagram is just video after video of her talking about that second stage of life whist scantily clad and usually makeup-free, and damn, she looks fantastic. I also love her friendship dynamic with Bebe Neuwirth."
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