This post was updated Feb. 27 at 9:25 p.m. Smooth sailing lies ahead for the Department of Theater’s collaborative efforts on “Pericles.” The Shakespearean play will run from Friday to March 5 at ...

“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...

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On Friday, for the first time in some 30 years, Britain’s illustrious Royal Shakespeare Company will open a show in Chicago — William Shakespeare’s “Pericles,” now in previews in Chicago Shakespeare’s ...

When Tamara Harvey decided that Pericles would be the first play she’d direct as the new co-artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, it seemed a shocking choice. After all, scholars agree ...

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not ...

Actress Lily Kops, bottom right, is surrounded by much of the rest of the cast during a turning point in the play “Pericles” during a dress rehearsal with Santa Cruz Shakespeare. The play by William ...