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Chicago Shakespeare Returns to Live Performances with AS YOU LIKE IT; Casts & Creatives for Chicago ShakesSTREAM Revealed In October 2021, audiences return to the Theater for AS YOU LIKE IT infused with The Beatles.by BWW News Desk Chicago Shakespeare Theater will welcome artists back to make theater again as dozens of actors, directors, designers, and technicians are busy creating upcoming productions, captured live in the Theater s performance spaces and streaming on-demand for audiences at home via the new Chicago ShakesSTREAM platform. Rehearsals and creative team meetings are underway for the line-up of virtual offerings beginning in March, including the I, Shakespeare series of solo shows I, Banquo and I, Cinna (the poet), a repertory ensemble cast performing both Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night as enhanced audio experiences, and We Are Out There, an imaginative digital prologue to the new musical It Came from Outer Space before the world premiere production ....
The history of Shakespeare and race is a complicated one. Often, Shakespeare’s immense portfolio has a hidden or even obvious stigma against BIPOC performers. Shakespeare has long been viewed as part of the white “cultural identity”, which somehow limits it to performers that can’t play Banquo’s Ghost without any makeup. Despite these persistent stigmas, African-American performers and directors have steadfastly defied the stereotypes and performed every play Shakespeare ever wrote dozens of times over. The African-American Shakespeare Company, founded in 1994, seeks to provide ever expanding opportunities for diverse people to feature in classical performances, both by setting them up and campaigning for further inclusion. The WeSeeYou movement also drew attention to these issues rather recently by speaking out about the daily acts of racism that BIPOC, but specifically African-Americans, experience in the theatre industry. ....