Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST), recent recipient of the 2008 Regional Theatre Tony Award, announced today that it will produce a staged reading of Romeo y Julieta, a newly commissioned, bilingual adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, in the Theatre at Little Village Lawndale High School July 25 and 26. Henry Godinez, co-founder of Teatro Vista, director of Chicago’s Latino Theatre Festival and a veteran of nine productions as a member of CST’s acting company, will direct a local and national cast of Latino theater artists including Elizabeth Peña, four-time winner of the American Latino Media Arts Award. Karen Zacarías, founding artistic director of Young Playwrights’ Theatre in Washington, D.C. and winner of the 2006 Francesca Primus Award, will adapt the 75-minute work. “*
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June 26th, 2008
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