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Review , Stages , Theater

Review: Royal Shakespeare’s Hamnet at Chicago Shakespeare Recreates the Drama With Pure Emotion

You may appreciate the play Hamnet because you loved Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel or the 2025 film directed by Chloé Zhao. In either case, your view of the Hamnet story […]

Nancy S Bishop

February 15, 2026

Feature , Fiction , Interviews , Interviews , Lit , Preview , Stages , Theater

Preview: Acclaimed Hamnet Moves From Page to Screen to Stage in U.S. Debut at Chicago Shakespeare

Title of the stage adaptation of Hamnet from the Royal Shakespeare Company, with actors portraying Shakespeare and his wife Agnes off to one side

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamnet makes its U.S. premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater this week—but the title is already a familiar one. Book lovers know that Hamnet originated […]

Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch

February 6, 2026

Review , Stages , Theater

Review: Chicago Shakespeare Presents a Breathtaking Production of Royal Shakespeare’s Pericles

Zach Wyatt plays the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Pericles. Directed by RSC co-artistic director Tamara Harvey and running in Chicago Shakespeare’s Courtyard Theater October 20-December 7, 2024. Photo by Johan Persson.

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Lauren Katz

November 8, 2024

Beyond , Event

Comic-Con@Home Comes to Chicago (And Everywhere Else) Starting Today!

One of summer’s most obvious absences are festivals, big and small. There’s no sprawling parks full of concert stages, no small towns bedecked with smiling strawberries leading you towards the […]

Marielle Bokor

July 22, 2020