Terry Hands, the internationally ad...

Terry Hands, the internationally admired British director who worn out much of his career at the Royal Shakespeare Company, has gathered united young Canadian plus a formidable local cast for his production of "Hamlet," running tribe 2-Nov. 18 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

The Canadian, Ben Carlson, nabbed the title part An award- winning actor (and musician), he has exhausted years at Ontario's Shaw Festival. Joining him will be Barbara Robertson (as Hamlet's mother, Gertrude); Bruce A. Young (as Claudius); Mike Nussbaum (as Polonius); Lindsay Gould (star of the long-running Profiles Theatre present to view "Blackbird," as Ophelia); Timothy Edward Kane (as Horatio); Matt Schwader and Ben Viccellio (as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern), plus Wendy Robie, James Harms, Andrew Ahrens, Kevin Rich, Braden Moran, Roderick Peeple Bill Bannon and Aaron H Alpern. For tickets: (312) 595-5600

- Pilobolus, the shape-shifting dance company of seven responds to the Chicago Theatre, Oct 6-7 with a program of five works, including brace Chicago premieres --"Prism," Michael Tracy's noirish piece about individual and cluster identity, set to the music of Coldplay, and Jonathan Wolken's "Memento Mori," a male-female duet put to a mix of Debussy, Bjork and the "Queen of the Night" aria.

Also forward the bill: "Solo From the destitute of contents Suitor," Tracy's exercise in existential clowning; "Gnomen," a quartet for male dancers, and "Sweet Purgatory," a visit to the dark side and back into the light, locate to Shostakovich. For tickets, (312) 902-1500

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