Barbara Gaines News

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced today that the prestigious Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, home to the world's largest and finest collection of Shakespeare materials, will present CST's Education Department with the Shakespeare Steward Award. Inaugurated in 2007, the Folger Shakespeare Steward Award is presented annually to a person or organization for innovative teaching of Shakespeare in American classrooms. Chicago Shakespeare Theater will be the first theater to receive this prestigious award.

Check out THE 'LATE SHOW' TOP TEN 'Words That Almost Rhyme with ‘Mahmoud', as presented on the Wednesday, Sept. 26 broadcast of the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, seen weeknights (11:35 PM12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network

Check out David Letterman's 'Top Ten Signs You're a Bad Referee' from last night's LATE SHOW on CBS.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will make his first visit to the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, tonight, Sept. 26 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. This will be the first time a sitting British Prime Minister visits the CBS late night broadcast.

In keeping with the trans-Atlantic relationship, Chicago Shakespeare and Scotland's theater community are engaged in a cultural exchange-one CST production, The Q Brothers' Othello: The Remix, is now playing to wildly enthusiastic response at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the very festival that launched two critically acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) productions that are slated for Chicago Shakespeare's fall 2012 World's Stage series: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, and the return engagement of Black Watch.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to host the NY premiere of the critically acclaimed Chicago production A TWIST OF WATER, written by Caitlin Parrish, story by Caitlin Parish and Erica Weiss, and directed by Erica Weiss.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will make his first visit to the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Wednesday, Sept. 26 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. This will be the first time a sitting British Prime Minister visits the CBS late night broadcast.

President Barack Obama addressed recently released comments by Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney in an extensive interview on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, last night, Tuesday, Sept. 18.

President Barack Obama addresses recently released comments by Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney in an extensive interview on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Tuesday, Sept. 18.

President Barack Obama will visit the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, tonight, Sept. 18 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

President Barack Obama will visit the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Tuesday, Sept. 18 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

First Lady Michelle Obama presented the Top Ten List on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, on Tuesday, June 5 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Check out her appearance below!

First Lady Michelle Obama will present the Top Ten List on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, tonight, Sept. 5 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

First Lady Michelle Obama will visit the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, tonight, August 29 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

In keeping with the trans-Atlantic relationship, Chicago Shakespeare and Scotland's theater community are engaged in a cultural exchange-one CST production, The Q Brothers' Othello: The Remix, is now playing to wildly enthusiastic response at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the very festival that launched two critically acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) productions that are slated for Chicago Shakespeare's fall 2012 World's Stage series: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, and the return engagement of Black Watch.

First Lady Michelle Obama will visit the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Wednesday, August 29 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN goes for the gold when it features medal-winning U.S. Olympic athletes on the broadcast through Thursday, August 16 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The entire U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastics team, who took home the first team all-around gold medal for the U.S since 1996 at the 2012 Summer Olympic games in London, will visit the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN tonight, Aug. 14

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces casting for the 2012 Fall Season. The Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine will be staged by CST Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin, September 26-November 4, 2012 in CST's Courtyard Theater. The season continues with The School for Lies by David Ives, adapted from Moliere's The Misanthrope and staged by CST Artistic Director Barbara Gaines, December 4, 2012-January 20, 2013 in CST's Courtyard Theater.