Fat Ham,” by playwright James Ijames, follows in the tradition of modernizing a Shakespeare play — in this case, “Hamlet.” ...

“It has faced repeated attempts of closure, and as the only predominately Black high school in the ... that my never reading a full Shakespeare play lasted from high school through about halfway ...

the character of the Fool, and the play’s concepts of nature and unnaturalness. Five hundred years before #MeToo, Shakespeare wrote his darkest comedy, a story of religion, sexual coercion ...

That’s the premise of a new Chicago Shakespeare Theater play called “Hymn.” It’s an entertaining journey with old school music and elements of Black male friendship woven throughout the ...