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    		Things to do - Chicago Shakespeare Theater

    Since Chicago Shakespeare Theater opened its new seven-story facility at Navy Pier in 1999, it has brought a new dimension to the Pier and created a permanent home for Shakespeare in the heart of Chicago.outside view of Shakespeare Theater

    The year-round theater complex is centrally located on the Pier. Inside this beautiful courtyard-style theater, the main floor, dress circle and gallery wrap gracefully around the thrust stage. In the intimate 510-seat theater, only nine rows separate the most distant seat from the actors on stage, and the gallery is suspended just 20 feet above the action. The complex also features a flexible 180-seat theater, Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare, rehearsal spaces, an English-style pub, a Shakespeare resource center for educators, and lobby and reception areas with views of Lake Michigan and Chicago's skyline.



    Now Showing!

    Comedy of Errors The Comedy of Errors
    By William Shakespeare
    Directed by Barbara Gaines
    In the Courtyard Theater
    April 27 - June 29, 2008

    Shakespeare is transported to the golden age of film as an eccentric group of stage and screen actors gather on an English movie set in the midst of the London blitz to film The Comedy of Errors. Backstage antics abound as the onstage story of Antipholus and his servant Dromio unfolds. Mistaken identities make for hilarious complications as the two men search for their identical twins lost since infancy. In the end, chaos gives way to clarity and one long, baffling day on the set makes for a short, bewitching-and joyous-visit to the theater.

    For more information or to purchase tickets, please call the Chicago Shakespeare Theater Box Office at 312.595.5600, or go to their website at www.chicagoshakes.com.

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