ShawChicago's to Host Annual Gala SHAW CELEBRATES SHAKESPEARE

ShawChicago marks the 400th birthday of William Shakespeare with its annual Gala, entitled Shaw Celebrates Shakespeare, at The Casino, 195 E. Delaware Place on May 21st at 6 PM. The event will note Shaw's admiration of Shakespeare's work. Hors d'oeuvres will be served during the Cash Bar at 6 PM, along with complimentary wine. Dinner will begin at 7 PM. Tickets are $200, $250 for the Queen's Table, and $1400 for groups of eight, and can be purchased online or at 312-587-7390. Elizabethan dress is highly encouraged.

"Shakespear* was mother's milk to me.... When I was twenty, I knew everybody in Shakespear, from Hamlet to Abhorson." -Bernard Shaw

"The magic of Shakespear's language owes more to the music of the verse, the sheer sound of the words, than to its meaning or even to its imagery... Shakespear gains his effects through pauses, rhythm, the color of the vowels, the mixture of vowels and consonants, and the flow or interruption in the line...his power lies in his enormous command of word-music." -Bernard Shaw

* denotes Bernard Shaw's spelling of Shakespeare

ShawChicago is a professional non-profit theater company founded in 1994 with a mission to present the plays of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries as concert readings. Operating under an Actors' Equity contract, ShawChicago is about to celebrate its 23rd season, Dysfunctional Family Fun. The company presents special afternoon performances for senior citizens and morning performances for students throughout the Chicagoland area. ShawChicago also offers outreach performances across the city and its suburbs, providing theater to libraries, senior living communities and schools. ShawChicago is a theater company in residence at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts.

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