I am going to this.

It was 20 bucks and I will happily stand up for 75 minutes to see Edward II at CST. Especially since with the standing-room tickets you get to wander around the action. AWESOME.

Oh hey, and Jeffrey "Hal In Leather Pants" Carlson is doing the title role. ROCK.

In non-gay-king news, a PSA about Gmail security and what you can ( Read more... )

cheshyre recently went to see Richard II, starring Jeffrey "Hal of the Leather Pants" Carlson, which is pretty cool anyway, because yay living vicariously, but this afternoon I went to the department office and found this in my mail slot:

( this is what she sent me )

So about a year ago anomilygrace and I went to see Henry IV 1 and 2 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. It was a fantastic production, by and large, though not a flawless one, and we had a very good time. We were also, and this is the reason I mention this, very pleased with the way the actor playing Hal looked in leather pants, as evinced by the number of times I ( Read more... )

Okay, so here it is. I have been geeking out about going to see this production for ages and ages (I found a post from a year ago a while back where I squeed about it, having seen the CST 2005-06 schedule), and I am probably just going to ramble a lot because I both loved it and had some things I have quibbles with, which is an inducement to ( Read more... )