Brand-New Xmas Comedy
How do four writers collaborate on an accessible holiday show? And what happens to the manuscript?
Starbuck in Orson Welles’s ‘Moby Dick—Rehearsed’
Starbuck is Hamlet-like in pursuit of Ahab’s white whale.
‘Midsummer’ in Midwinter
Chris gives a ‘tight five’ intro to the comedy about fairies, lovers, and community theater actors
Sherlock at Xmas for Shakespeare Project
Chris takes a shot at the famous consulting detective for this holiday special.
‘Shakeshafte’ Encore at UChicago
Shakespeare and the Saint—Revived
Covering the Scottish Play for Chicago Shakes
Chris covers the father to a line of kings
at Chicago Shakespeare
Looking for Love: ‘My Name Is Will’
Four folks using Shakespeare’s songs and sonnets to find love
Touchstone in ‘As You Like It’ for Shakes Project
Chris turns on the motley in this J.R. Sullivan-helmed production.
New Play Reading: ‘The Malta Play’
Chris makes his debut with Artemisia, a Chicago Theatre, with a reading of The Malta Play. Kirsten Ebsen‘s play is part of the Artemisia Fall Festival 2017, which features six women-empowered works. Based on actual events, The Malta Play depicts two British Quaker women who survive imprisonment by the Inquisition on the island of Malta. […]
U.S. Premiere Reading: ‘Shakeshafte’
The Poet and the Martyr