New Play First Reading: ‘Vortigern,’ Based on True Story of ‘Lost’ Shakespeare Play Hoax
First public reading of Joshua Fardon’s new comedy about Shakespeare, forgery, deceit and the value of art
Brand-New Xmas Comedy
How do four writers collaborate on an accessible holiday show? And what happens to the manuscript?
Starbuck in Orson Welles’s ‘Moby Dick—Rehearsed’
Starbuck is Hamlet-like in pursuit of Ahab’s white whale.
‘Midsummer’ in Midwinter
Chris gives a “tight five” intro to the comedy about fairies, lovers, and community theater actors
Sherlock at Xmas for Shakespeare Project
Chris takes a shot at the famous consulting detective for this holiday special.
‘Shakeshafte’ Encore at UChicago
Shakespeare and the Saint—Revived
Covering the Scottish Play at Chicago Shakes
Chris covers the father to a line of kings
at Chicago Shakespeare
Looking for Love: ‘My Name Is Will’
Four folks using Shakespeare’s songs and sonnets to find love
Touchstone in ‘As You Like It’ for Shakes Project
Chris puts on the motley in this J.R. Sullivan-helmed production.
New Play Reading: ‘The Malta Play’
Two British Quaker women suffer imprisonment by the Inquisition on the island of Malta. Chris plays the prime prosecutor for Artemisia.
U.S. Premiere Reading: ‘Shakeshafte’
The Poet and the Martyr
‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ for Shakes Project
Four lords forswear the sight of women, but which one will break first?
‘The Changeling’ for Shakespeare Project
In a new twist, Chris plays the romantic hero and doesn’t order the murder in this one
New Trailer for ‘Break a Leg’
The short film will be distributed internationally and on TV this summer
‘King John’ and the Bastard
The Bastard becomes a hero, and de facto king.
‘My Name Is Will’: Sonnets and Songs
Chris joins the long-running adaptation of Shakespeare’s songs and sonnets.
New Play Reading for Equity Library Theatre
A reading of Paul Lewis’s new play The Names, concerning a Jewish opera star defending her sister in World War II Milan.
Return of The Dane
Chris gets another shot at the Dane