Shawna Tucker News

Producers and Co-Artistic Directors David Fehr and Kathryn Bartholomew, spirited members of the Chicago theatre community, open the doors to Chicago's newest home for authentic theatre going experiences, Linchpin Theatre. Linchpin's inaugural production will be the seldom performed play King John by William Shakespeare. Fehr and Bartholomew's brazenly-chosen adaptation of the history of the reign of King John of England brings to life the all-too familiar futility over the struggle for power, and the turmoil it leaves in its wake.

Raven Theatre's Evermore Series has announced its fall line-up to include the best in Chicago slam poetry, music and holiday fare.

Promethean Theatre Ensemble presents Irwin Shaw's 1936 masterpiece is an incendiary indictment of war. On a battlefield in the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night, six dead soldiers killed in action inexplicably stand up and refuse to be buried in their graves. The response from the military, the public and the soldiers' families is by turns horrific and heartbreaking.

Promethean Theatre Ensemble is delighted to announce the full cast of their upcoming world premiere stage adaptation of the beloved Peter S. Beagle fantasy novel The Last Unicorn, adapted to the stage and directed by PTE ensemble member Ed Rutherford.

Hancock Productions presents in repertory the world premiere spy thriller The Brother (through November 18) and Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize winning 'night Mother (September 14 through November 18) at the Theatre Building Chicago.