ArtsPass Exclusive: Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Hamnet, with Ellen MacKay and Jennifer Chukwu
Open to UChicago Students Only
Thursday, February 26th, 2026 from 5:45pm to 10:15pm.
Bus Departs from the Logan Center at 4:45 pm
Performance: Chicago Shakespeare Theater - 800 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Pre-Performance Dinner and Conversation led by Ellen MacKay and Jennifer Chukwu: Chicago Shakespeare Theater - 800 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
ArtsPass Exclusive Discounted Price: $15 plus $2 ticketing fee– Seating is limited
Co-presented by UChicago Careers in Arts and Humanities, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Theater and Performance Studies, and the Logan Center for the Arts
Join us for a UChicago ArtsPass exclusive performance of Hamnet, featuring a pre-performance dinner and conversation with Ellen MacKay, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, and Jennifer Shukwu, Writing and Research Advisor in Creative Writing, on Thursday, February 26th as part of our Winter ArtsPass exclusives program.
Students will have the opportunity to attend the US premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamnet.
Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering, something of extraordinary wonder is born. Experience the US premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel, adapted by award-winning playwright Lolita Chakrabarti (Hymn, Life of Pi, Red Velvet), and directed by Erica Whyman. Pulling back a curtain on the story of the greatest writer in the English language and the woman who was the constant presence and purpose of his life, Hamnet is a love letter to passion, birth, grief, and the magic of nature.
Schedule:
4:45 pm - Bus Departs Logan Center, 915 East 60th Street
5:45 pm - Dinner and Conversation with Ellen MacKay and Jennifer Chukwu
6:45 pm - Conversation ends
7:00 pm - Show begins
9:30 pm - End of show and Bus Returns to Logan Center [Show is 2hrs 30mins with intermission]
Bus will depart after show to return students to campus by 10:15pm
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