IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SHAKESPEARE'S CHOICE.(theatre design)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, September, 2000 by Soloski, Alexis
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FOUNDED IN 1986, CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE Theater--then known as Shakespeare Repertory--gave its first performance on the terrace of the Red Lion Pub in Lincoln Park. How times change! Today CST readies its roster for a second season in its $22-million, 75,000-square-foot, seven-story home on Chicago's Navy Pier.
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The sleek and fanciful structure, which opened last October, comprises 834 tons steel, 2,000 girders, 9,700 blocks of Ohio sandstone, 70,000 bricks, 350 ashwood columns and countless glass prisms--yet it lodges a surprisingly dainty theatre. (It also houses an English pub, a ...
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