Decker’s one-man show about Shakespeare set for Chicago run

"Shakespeare's Roses," a play written by Dan Decker, artistic director of the Las Vegas Shakespeare Company, will launch a monthlong Arts Festival in Chicago on Oct. 14.

"Shakespeare's Roses," a 90-minute one-man show that puts an aging Bard, dying of syphilis, onstage to talk about the great loves and losses, betrayals and failures of his life, is based on Decker's speculative biography, "Two Roses."

"Shakespeare's Roses" will run in the Wicker Park/Bucktown area of Chicago. The event is sponsored by Chicago Artists Month, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Decker's Las Vegas Shakespeare Company is currently producing "Macbeth" for the city of Henderson's annual "Shakespeare in the Park," as well as the "Shakespeare in the Schools" program. 

Decker speaks nationally on the topic of storytelling and is a consultant to the Nevada Film Office on film scripts.