Tag: American Shakespeare Center
American Shakespeare Center announces departure of artistic director Brandon Carter
Carter's legacy at ASC includes visionary leadership and groundbreaking initiatives as he guided the Center through the pandemic.
‘Pass Over’ joins four-play summer season at American Shakespeare Center
Antoinette Nwandu’s groundbreaking drama about young Black men looking for a way out will follow 'Every Brilliant Thing,' 'Twelfth Night,' and 'Thrive.'
‘A King and No King’ was a goodly one at American...
Looking back on the last few months, each of us has our “Shoulda seen it/Shoulda been there” moments, events that we would have given...
‘The Grapes of Wrath’ at The American Shakespeare Center strikes a...
"It's need that makes all the trouble" says (ex-) preacher Jim Casy in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. That, in a nutshell, is the...
The American Shakespeare Center’s streaming ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is a...
Yes, it’s a drag to have to stay at home instead of seeing our favorite performers live—but then again, after a little adjustment, it’s...
American Shakespeare Center announces principal casting for Marquee Repertory season
American Shakespeare Center launches the 2020 Marquee Repertory season this summer navigating the waters of Venice, the glittering locale of Shakespeare’s Othello and The...
American Shakespeare Center mines the humor in Shaw’s ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’
The plays of George Bernard Shaw are, to be honest, an acquired taste. Erudite in the extreme, filled with Shaw’s unique sense of his...
Cleopatra rules the stage in American Shakespeare Center’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’
Of all of Shakespeare’s history plays, Antony and Cleopatra is the most complicated and thankless to stage. You’ve got shifting alliances, battles won then...
American Shakespeare Center delivers a fresh take on ‘Julius Caesar’
You know you’re in for a new take on Julius Caesar when the famous Soothsayer (“Beware the Ides of March!”) doesn’t enter upstage right...
‘The Willard Suitcases’ Starring Nancy Anderson To Have World Premiere at...
The Willard Suitcases, a new musical by Julianne Wick Davis, will make its world premiere debut at the American Shakespeare Center on October 4,...
American Shakespeare Center Announces 2020 Programming
In a Sunday presentation broadcast from the stage of Staunton, Virginia's Blackfriars Playhouse – the world’s only recreation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre – American...
Summer Festival Season Begins at the American Shakespeare Center
The American Shakespeare Center is promising audiences a Roman adventure this summer with their Festival Season. The season opens with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and...
Review: ‘The Comedy of Errors’ at the American Shakespeare Center (Staunton,...
If you’re a fan of stand-up comedy, you know the highs and lows that come with artists working the crowd with fresh material they’ve...
Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at the American Shakespeare Center
For all his brilliance, Shakespeare still suffers from the occasional whining of critics about his later “problem” plays. Longer and more complex, with familiar...
Review: ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the American Shakespeare Center (Staunton, VA)
We all have our own holiday traditions – lighting candles one night after the next, caroling, choral concerts, dreidel-spinning, Christmas Revels, Christmas-day Chinese fare,...
Charm City Fringe Review: ‘The Shoemaker’s Holiday’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
The Shoemaker’s Holiday: A Firking Funny Production at BSF
This weekend, I had the good fortune to be at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory (“BSF”), as part...
In The Moment: Sarah N. Schallern on Alden Theatre’s 2015-2016 Season
Perhaps out of the limelight to those beyond close-in Northern Virginia, the McLean Community Center is not only a “hub” of community activities but...
A ‘Tiny’ Interview with Director Jessica Aimone of ‘The Tiny House...
I got super-excited when I found out Pinky Swear is doing an immersive theatre piece (or pieces) at DC’s own Tiny House community, Boneyard...
Meet the Director and Cast of Annapolis Shakespeare Company’s ‘A Midsummer...
This is the Part 6 in a series of interviews with the director and cast members of Annapolis Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream....
‘The 39 Steps’ at NextStop Theatre Company by Terry Byrne
Live theater is thrilling. How better, then, to celebrate the remaking of the volunteer-sown Elden Street Players into a major professional troupe than with...