Edward Hall News

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) presents its 25th Anniversary Season production of The Feast: an intimate Tempest, an original CST commission and artistic collaboration with Redmoon.

Following their productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, all-male touring company Propeller return to the Rose Theatre Kingston with Henry V and The Winter's Tale from Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 April 2012.

The Shakespeare's Globe productions of RICHARD III and TWELFTH NIGHT will transfer to the West End from the 2nd November 2012 to the 3rd of February 2013 at the Apollo Theatre. The shows star Stephen Fry, Mark Rylance and Samuel Barnett.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) 25th Anniversary Season production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by CST Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin (CST's Follies, Broadway's The Color Purple) is now playing through April 8, 2012, and features a celebrated company of artists that includes stage and screen actor Ron Orbach as Nick Bottom, former Saturday Night Live funnyman Tim Kazurinsky as Peter Quince, and veteran CST actors Tracy Michelle Arnold as Hippolyta/Titania and Timothy Edward Kane as Theseus/Oberon. Performing the role of Puck is Elizabeth Ledo.

By the author of LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!, MASTER CLASS and RAGTIME, Terrence McNally, Circle Theatre's production of THE RITZ opened on February 15th.When straight businessman Gaetano Proclo discovers he's being pursued by the mob, he unwittingly takes cover in a gay bathhouse with an increasingly bizarre and endearing cast of characters. He takes on the guise of a Broadway producer to further hide his identity and farcical merriment ensues. Check out photos from opening night below!

The Rose Theatre announces upcoming productions.

The Rose Theatre announces upcoming productions.

The Rose Theatre announces upcoming productions.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced today casting for its 25th Anniversary Season production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by CST Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin (CST's Follies, Broadway's The Color Purple) and featuring a celebrated company of artists that includes stage and screen actor Ron Orbach as Nick Bottom, former Saturday Night Live funnyman Tim Kazurinsky as Peter Quince, and veteran CST actors Tracy Michelle Arnold as Hippolyta/Titania and Timothy Edward Kane as Theseus/Oberon. Performing the role of Puck is Elizabeth Ledo.

The Rose Theatre announces upcoming productions.

Internationally celebrated all-male company Propeller, led by director Edward Hall, return to the Lyceum Theatre to perform Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale from Tuesday 31 January - Saturday 3 February following their productions of Richard III and The Comedy of Errors last year.