Theater spotlight: Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' comes to The Gift

Posted May 29, 2018 8:00 am

The Gift's 'Hamlet'

Daniel Kyri, who has made quite an impression on Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman, Lookingglass and Steppenwolf stages in recent years, plays the titular role in The Gift Theatre's version of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Monty Cole directs the production, which features Gift ensemble members John Kelly Connolly as Claudius, Gregory Fenner as Laertes, and Hannah Toriumi and Martel Manning as Hamlet's ill-fated school chums Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Previews at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 1-2, and Wednesday, June 6, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 3, at 4802 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. Opens Thursday, June 7. $25-$40. (773) 283-7071 or thegifttheatre.org.

Shakespeare and song

Tony Award-winner Len Cariou, who co-stars as Henry Reagan in CBS' "Blue Bloods," brings his show "Broadway and the Bard: An Evening of Shakespeare & Song" to Stage 773 for a brief run. Conceived by Cariou ("Sweeney Todd," "A Little Night Music"), Barry Kleinbort and Mark Janas, the show combines Cariou's two great theater loves: Shakespeare's soliloquies and American musical comedy in the form of sonnets with favorite Broadway tunes. 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 6-8; also 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, June 9, and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 10, at 1225 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago. $35. (773) 327-5252 or stage773.com.

AstonRep Theatre Company concludes its season with a revival of "The Laramie Project." Courtesy of Derek Bertelsen

'Laramie Project'

AstonRep Theatre Company concludes its season with a revival of "The Laramie Project," the docu-theater piece by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project chronicling the impact of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, on the residents of the Laramie, Wyoming, community. Associate artistic director Derek Bertelsen directs the production, whose cast includes St. Charles resident Peter Surma. Previews at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 7-8, at The Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St., Chicago. Opens Saturday, June 9. $12-$25. (773) 828-9129 or astonrep.com.

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