Performance History of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago

Below you will find a listing of our performances since 1995 with links to many programs.  Click on the link to open the program (Acrobat Reader required).  Get a free copy of Acrobat Reader here.

1995
Titus Andronicus
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Comedy of Errors

1996
The Comedy of Errors
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
Measure For Measure
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Measure For Measure
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Winter's Tale

1997
King John
Edward II (Marlowe)
Edward III (Apochryphal)
Richard II
1 Henry IV
2 Henry IV
Henry V
1 Henry VI
2 Henry VI
3 Henry VI
Richard III
Twelfth Night
My Name Is Will

1998
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Antony & Cleopatra
As You Like It
Cymbeline
Troilus and Cressida
All's Well That Ends Well
Titus Andronicus
The Tempest
Othello
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Hamlet

1999
The Comedy of Errors
Henry VIII
My Name Is Will
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Hamlet (full production)
Macbeth

2000
My Name Is Will (full production)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Richard III
Timon of Athens

2001
Othello
The Taming of the Shrew
The Rape of Lucrece
Julius Caesar
Twelfth Night

2002
Romeo and Juliet
50-Minute Hamlet

2003
All's Well That Ends Well
King Lear
50-Minute Hamlet (full production)
The Merchant of Venice
The Cricket on the Hearth (Dickens)

2004
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Ghosts (Ibsen)
Macbeth
The Parvenu (Moliere)

2005
The Winter's Tale
A Woman of No Importance (Wilde)
Henry IV
Faust (Marlowe, Goethe)

2006
Love's Labour's Lost
My Name Is Will
50-Minute Hamlet
Henry V

2007
The Constant Wife (Maugham)
Much Ado About Nothing
50-Minute Macbeth
Henry VI

2008
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
As You Like It
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
In Medea Res (Euripides)

2009
The Comedy of Errors
Richard III
Henry VIII

2010
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Rivals (Sheridan)
Antony & Cleopatra
Paradise Lost (Milton)
A Celebration of Shakespeare
Measure For Measure
My Name Is Will
50-Minute Hamlet

2011
Mary Stuart (Schiller)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
50-Minute Hamlet
The Tempest
50-Minute Hamlet
50-Minute Romeo and Juliet
Richard II
My Name  Is Will

2012
The Duchess of Malfi (Webster)
My Name Is Will
50-Minute Romeo and Juliet (Touring Production)
The Taming of the Shrew
50-Minute Hamlet
Troilus & Cressida
50-Minute Romeo and Juliet (Park Ridge Public Library)
50-Minute Romeo and Juliet/50-Minute Hamlet (Newberry Library, Wilmette Public Library)
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice
50-Minute Romeo and Juliet (A Benefit for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago)
50-Minute Hamlet
My Name Is Will

2013
A Woman Killed With Kindness (Heywood)
Twelfth Night
My Name Is Will
The Reign of King Edward III (Shakespeare/Kyd)
The Merchant of Venice
Selections from The Hollow Crown (A Benefit for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago)
50-Minute Hamlet

2014
The Fair Maid of the West (Heywood)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
50-Minute Romeo and Juliet
All's Well That Ends Well
The Music of Shakespeare (Collaboration with The Lakeview Orchestra)
Reflections from a Shakespeare Garden (A Benefit for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago)
King Lear 
2014 Fall Benefit 

2015
50-Minute Hamlet/50-Minute Romeo and Juliet 
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Lincoln in Limbo (Bray)
The Revenger's Tragedy (Middleton)
The Contrast/Saving Grace: Anne Hutchinson 
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (Shaw) - A Benefit for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago 
Darkside by Tom Stoppard, Incorporating The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
Spooky Shakes 
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar 

2016
The Winter's Tale
50-Minute Hamlet 
Cymbeline 
Three Interludes (Cervantes)
Cardenio (Greenblatt/Mee based on Shakespeare/Fletcher)
My Name Is Will
50-Minute Hamlet
Henry V 
The Food of Love (A Benefit for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago) 
My Name Is Will 
The Cricket on the Hearth 

2017
50-Minute Hamlet 
King John 
Seabury vs. Hamilton 
The Changeling (Middleton & Rowley) 
Paradise Lost, Act 2 (Milton) 
Love's Labour's Lost
Seabury vs. Hamilton (A Benefit for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago)
Shakeshafte (Rowan Williams)
As You Like It
Dream Upon Avon (John Kishline)

2018
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
Seabury vs. Hamilton
My Name Is Will
Women Beware Women (Middleton)
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakeshafte (Rowan Williams)
Jefferson & Adams - Act 2 (Howard Ginsberg) - A Benefit for The Shakespeare Project of Chicago
The King's Face (Steven Young) at Illinois Shakespeare Festival
Jefferson & Adams (Howard Ginsberg)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Excerpt from "The King's Face" (Steven Young) - Fall Benefit
A Selection of English Christmas Carols/A Baker Street Christmas Caper

2019
Titus Andronicus
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Back of the Yards (Kenneth Sawyer Goodman)
Moby Dick Rehearsed (Orson Welles)
My Name Is Will
The Roaring Girl (Middleton & Dekker)
A Portrait of Shakespeare
For the Love of Shakespeare
The Californian Incident (James Richard Goeser)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Christmas Comes But Once A Year (George Zahora)/A Selection of Holiday Music

2020
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Inside the First Folio (Virtual Presentation)
Sonnet Wheel of Fortune (Virtual Presentation)
So You Think You Know Shakespeare (Virtual Presentation)
A Conversation with J.R. Sullivan (Virtual Enrichment Season)

2021
News From Gravesend: The Wonderful Year (Middleton and Dekker) (Virtual Enrichment Season)
Macbeth and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (Virtual Enrichment Season)
By Help of Devils (film) (Virtual Enrichment Season)
Reimagining Shakespeare (Virtual Enrichment Season)
Trifles (Susan Glaspell) (Virtual Presentation)

2022
Toasting the Revolution
50-Minute Hamlet  
Lovers' Debates and Letters of Isabella Andreini

2023
Celebrating the Holidays in Verse and Song

2024
Timon of Athens
The Comedy of Errors
My Name Is Will
Songbook Shakespeare
Dear Rhoda (Donna Russell and David Ranney)
Measure For Measure
The Better Part of Me (John S. Green and Peter Garino)
A Christmas Memory (Truman Capote)