• 953491 First Folio Theatre was a not-for-profit theater company affiliated with the Actors' Equity Association. Founded in 1996, First Folio, originally...
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    William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death. It is...
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  • (formerly Gateway Theatre) Court Theatre Factory Theater First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook) Goodman Theatre iO Theater Kane Repertory Theatre (St. Charles) Lifeline...
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    The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf') has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for...
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    Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although it is listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a comedy...
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    on Saturdays at 11:30am. The estate used to be home to First Folio Theatre. First Folio Theatre ceased operations in early 2023. Mayslake Hall was designed...
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    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames...
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    The Second Folio is the 1632 edition of the collected plays of William Shakespeare. It follows the First Folio of 1623. Much language was updated in the...
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    Red Lion, it was the first permanent theatre built exclusively for the showing of theatrical productions in England, and its first successful one. Actor-manager...
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    reprints of Q2 with some alterations. This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling, punctuation, and five common emendations...
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    with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest...
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    The Tempest (category Fantasy theatre)
    and elevated language. Although The Tempest is listed in the First Folio as the first of Shakespeare's comedies, it deals with both tragic and comic...
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    posthumous First Folio was published. The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies, and histories follows the categories used in the First Folio...
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    Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, many modern editors...
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  • David Darlow (actor) (category American theatre directors)
    Mainstage, Chicago) 1997: The Tempest (First Folio Theatre, Oak Brook) 2004: Hidden Laughter (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater...
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  • Elizabethan theatre. It was the fourth of the public theatres to be built, after The Theatre (1576), the Curtain (1577), and the theatre at Newington...
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    In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognise...
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    The Iroquois Theatre fire was a catastrophic building fire in Chicago, Illinois, that broke out on December 30, 1903, during a performance attended by...
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    friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that...
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    works. Since its inception in 1992, Folger Theatre has staged over half of the plays in Shakespeare's First Folio. Productions have received 135 nominations...
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    throughout the history of England, they were classified as "histories" in the First Folio. The Roman tragedies—Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus—are...
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  • comedic nod to English imperial history, for the Young Vic Theatre. Nanny (R&D with Folio Theatre) at the Swindon Arts Centre, is a 2022 play by Alana Ramsey...
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    The Merchant of Venice (category Cross-dressing in theatre)
    inevitable fatal consequences. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies...
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    The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of...
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  • successful, prompting him to build his first theatre. Drury Lane Evergreen Park was DeSantis's first theatre in the Chicago area. It opened in 1958 and...
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    'Jean la Pucelle'). The First Folio referred to her as 'Ioane de Puzel'. In his version of 1.5.85, Burns follows the First Folio, which reads "puzel or...
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    productions have transferred to Broadway. The name Steppenwolf Theatre Company was first used in 1974 at a Unitarian church on Half Day Road in Deerfield...
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    plays with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen...
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    appeared in Folio was short-listed for the Pushcart Prize multiple time in the 1980s. Among the notable stories that first appeared in Folio are Jacob M...
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    the 1594 quarto text; in the First Folio he is simply First Rebel. Named only in the 1594 quarto text; in the First Folio he is simply Second Rebel. The...
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