THE LARK, SOMETHING WICKED & More Set for Promethean Theatre Ensemble's 2013-14 Season

Shakespeare, Jean Anouilh and Tom Stoppard will be featured in Promethean Theatre Ensemble's eighth season as they present Something Wicked This Way Comes: An Evening of Shakespeare; The Lark; and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

An Evening of Shakespeare is a long-standing PTE tradition, and this year's version, Something Wicked This Way Comes, will offer an intimate evening of scenes and speeches featuring the Bard's ghosts, tricksters and villains. Just in time for Halloween, this all-ages show will run three days only, October 29-31 2013, with two performances at 7pm and 9pm each night. Ensemble Member Catherine Gillespie will adapt and direct the presentation, which will be free to the public (donations suggested) at The Red Lion Lincoln Square, 4749 N Rockwell Street, Chicago.

In The Lark, Jean Anouilh (in a brilliant adaptation by Lillian Hellman) gives the experience of the final day of Joan of Arc's life. Joan's trial, condemnation and execution are re-imagined in sequences of dream and memory, with design that contrasts the visual richness of renaissance and neo-classical masters of art with the ambiguous, ominous and often confusing world of modern artists such as Escher and Appia. The result is inspiring, provocative and heartbreaking. Directed by ensemble member John Arthur Lewis, The Lark will feature ensemble members Nick Lake, Brian Pastor and David Fink, with Anne Korajczyk as Joan. Guest artists Kimberly Logan (company member, Babes With Blades and Stage Left) and BrIan Parry (Jeff-award winner and Redtwist company member) also join the cast. The Lark runs January 17 - February 22, 2014 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave. in Chicago.

In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, PTE Artistic Director Beth Wolf will set Tom Stoppard's classic re-imagining of Hamlet in a Steampunk world, the unique visual aesthetic that typically blends Victorian elements with steam-powered machinery, clockwork, and gears. The Steampunk aesthetic blends worlds - both the past and an imagined future - just as Stoppard blends the traditional with the unknown. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead will run April 18 - May 24, 2014 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave. in Chicago.