>ASC: Hamlet (First Quarto)

>The American Shakespeare Center has taken the unusual step of performing the 1603 version of Hamlet, also known as the First Quarto. I’d never…

>The Brats of Clarence at ASC

>Each season, the American Shakespeare Center tosses a little non-Shakespeare into the repertory mix, usually a play by a Shakespeare contemporary, or something modern…

>Pericles, Prince of Tyre at ASC

>Shakespeare is back. Actually, he’s been back for a several weeks (after the season of holiday shows, A Christmas Carol and Santaland Diaries), but…

>A Christmas Carol

>I saw A Christmas Carol at the Blackfriars Playhouse today, a production of the American Shakespeare Center, featuring (again) the wonderful David Loar as…

>Santaland Diaries

>Traditionally, the American Shakespeare Center shifts to its holiday repertoire at this time of year for its performances at the Blackfriars Playhouse and this…

>As You Like It

>Last night I saw the closing performance of As You Like It at the American Shakespeare Center‘s Blackfriars Playhouse. The show sparkled and the…

>Othello (Reprise)

> Saw Othello at the Blackfriars Playhouse again last night. The first time I saw this production by the American Shakespeare Center, back in…

>The Tempest

>Last weekend I saw Macbeth again at the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse with a group from the Northwestern University Club of Virginia, after…

>Othello

>Friday night I saw Othello at the American Shakespeare Center. The Blackfriars Playhouse was nearly full for the opening of this production (the 4th…

>Twelfth Night

>If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.That strain again! it…