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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 12, 2020
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Emma has its charming moments, but little staying power
This musical take on Austen's oft-adapted tale skims the surface.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 12, 2019
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Romeo and Juliet is only halfway there at Chicago Shakes
The central characters feel like an afterthought in Barbara Gaines's contemporized version.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 1, 2019
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A new Hamlet puts the prince of Denmark in a context all too familiar to many Chicagoans
Chicago Shakespeare's staging draws upon the concept of a legacy interrupted and destroyed by racial violence.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 21, 2018
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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 1, 2018
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Chicago Shakespeare presents an amped-up Midsummer Night’s Dream in the parks, the way it was sort of meant to be
Barbara Gaines's adaptation includes hip-hop faeries, a cute lion, and abundant Chicagoiana.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 4, 2017
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Chicago Shakespeare’s Shrew is a hot mess
Barbara Gaines’s feminist conceit turns Shakespeare’s comedy into a foregone conclusion.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 8, 2017
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The Nether, The Book of Joseph, and seven more plays to see now
Thought-provoking productions at A Red Orchid and Chicago Shakespeare Theater are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 29, 2016
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Chicago Shakespeare's Tug of War: Civil Strife is a battle to engage in
The second half of Barbara Gaines's epic adaptation compels—never mind the guitars or blood dripping from the wall.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 26, 2016
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Tug of War: Foreign Fire is a grueling six-hour Shakespeare marathon
Adapter/director Barbara Gaines didn't need to combine three plays to get her message across about the deja vu of war.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2016
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What to see at Shakespeare 400 Chicago
We pare the year-long catalog of events down just a little bit.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2015
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At Lyric Opera and COT: a pair of Mozart operas
At Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, dueling Mozart operas.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 6, 2015
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Jane Austen and musicals are not quite incompatible
Paul Gordon's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, making its world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare, wants more sensibility, less sense.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 24, 2014
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At Chicago Shakespeare, Larry Yando gives us half of a great King Lear
The performance everybody was waiting for is part brilliant, part overblown.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 21, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Mon 4/21: Shakespeare's birthday, The Beast, and Neil Young
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Monday, April 21
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 16, 2013
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Barbara Gaines goes all auteur on Henry VIII
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production is undone by overdoing.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Dec 15, 2011
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Trapped in the stables in a play about the Virgin Queen
Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Oct 8, 2009
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Richard the Toad
Chicago Shakespeare Theater plays the nasty little king for laughs.
