One-man show short on revelation
Formidable actor stars in overly pat show Had Simon Callow arrived in lawless Chicago a century or more ago, like one of those famous traveling British Shakespeareans of yore, proudly proselytizing for the Bard amid the stockyards and the hookers of the Levee, his "Being Shakespeare" would likely have been billed as an "illustrated lecture." Callow has some light production values and the writing is by Jonathan Bat…