Illinois Shakespeare Festival tours Lincoln-Shakespeare play

Image of three actors performing a scene for Illinois Shakespeare Festival's Theatre for Your Audiences

In celebration with the Illinois Bicentennial, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival (ISF) has commissioned a new play to be performed by the Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) troupe at multiple locations.
The play, titled “Double, Double”, tells the story of a young Abraham Lincoln, his discovery of the joy and genius of Shakespeare’s writings and the impact on the President’s life and work. 

Alum Robert DuGrenier blends art and science to create magic

For Robert DuGrenier glassblowing isn’t only art. It’s supernatural. “Have you ever seen glass being made before? It’s pure magic,” DuGrenier, M.F.A. ’79, said. “You get to tell the material what you want it to do but it has a voice of its own.” DuGrenier was inducted into the College of Fine Arts Hall of Fame on April 16.