Daily Archives: September 10, 2015

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: A TEMPEST FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS

In his classic Prefaces to Shakespeare, Actor/Director Harley Granville Barker, reveals, in passing, an important secret about the theater: “A play, in fact, as we find it written, is a magic spell.” “The magic of the theater” is a phrase often bandied about, usually meaning “theater is wonderful.” But the phrase contains an important idea: […]