The Crossroads Project will present a staged reading of Dear Mr. C by Tidtaya Sinutoke, winner of the 2022 Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative on Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA), room 110.
Fairview will be performed in Westhoff Theatre and runs March 25, 26, 30–31 at 7:30 p.m., March 27 at 2 p.m., and April 1–2 at 7:30 p.m.
Guest costume designer, Jerrilyn Lanier-Duckworth will present her workshop “Bridging the Gap: A Look Into African American Hair & Makeup for Theatre” on Tuesday, March 22, at 4:30 p.m. at the Normal Theater
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm writes about Shakespeare’s use of friars as characters in his plays.
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm speaks with director Lisa Gaye Dixon about the upcoming production of Much Ado about Nothing at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF).
The Canal by Canal exhibit runs March 1-31 on Milner Library’s second floor. A lecture, reception and book signing with Dr. Erik Nordman will be held March 22.
Festival Dramaturg Kee-Yoon Nahm spoke with director Bill Jenkins about the upcoming production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF).
Illinois State University School of Theatre and Dance and the School of Music will present Legally Blonde: The Musical February 25-26 at 7:30 p.m., February 26-27 at 2 p.m., and March 1-3 at 7:30 p.m.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), which will open the Illinois Shakespeare Festival’s 2022 season, attempts to present all of the Bard’s plays in a single evening. Exactly how many plays did Shakespeare write?
Written in 1959 by Romanian French playwright Eugène Ionesco, Rhinoceros responds to and criticizes the sudden upsurge of fascism preceding World War II, and today, it continues to resonate with contemporary situations, including for the rise of the alt-right.
