American Shakespeare Center Announces Live Stream Performances Via Marquee TV
American Shakespeare Center today announced that their Summer 2020 SafeStart Season will be available for online viewing in partnership with Marquee TV. Dubbed 'BlkFrs LIVE,' live performances of Shakespeare's hilarious romp Twelfth Night and his tragic masterpiece Othello will be available for synchronous streaming.
THE WILLARD SUITCASES Starring Nancy Anderson Has World Premiere At American Shakespeare Center
The Willard Suitcases, a new musical by Julianne Wick Davis, makes its world premiere debut at the American Shakespeare Center on October 4, directed by Ethan McSweeny and featuring Nancy Anderson (Wonderful Town Broadway, Kiss Me Kate West End). Inspired by Jon Crispin's photographs of suitcases discovered abandoned in the derelict Willard Asylum, Davis' song-cycle imagines the lives of the patients who packed those bags.
American Shakespeare Center Announces 2020 Programming
In a Sunday presentation broadcast from the stage of the Blackfriars Playhouse - the world's only recreation of Shakespeare's indoor theatre - American Shakespeare Center (ASC) Artistic Director Ethan McSweeny announced the fifteen plays produced over three distinct seasons that will comprise the company's 2020 artistic programming, his second year and first full season at the helm.
Photo Flash: First Look at RICHARD III At The American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse
Richard III chronicles the cataclysmic end of England's greatest power struggle, the Wars of the Roses. Richard is the play's remarkable, charismatic, and repulsive ringmaster - he takes the audience into his confidence as he plots to kill everyone before him in line for the throne. Being seduced by Richard's shameless treachery is one of theatre-going's most delicious guilty pleasures.
30th Anniversary Artistic Year Begins At Blackfriars Playhouse
The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) began its 30th Anniversary Artistic Year with the launch of the 2018 Summer/Fall Season and a performance of As You Like It on June 13. The 2018 Summer/Fall Season will also feature a world-premiere adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma by Emma Whipday, Richard III, and George Etherege's The Man of Mode.
American Shakespeare Center Kicks Off New Year with HAMLET and RICHARD II
The American Shakespeare Center (ASC) begins its annual Actors' Renaissance Season with performances of Hamlet and Richard II on January 19. The Actors' Renaissance Season is the ASC's experiment into what Elizabethan and Jacobean rehearsal conditions might have been and features a troupe of veteran ASC actors who design the productions and conduct rehearsals without a formal director.
BWW Review: HARBOR Attempts to Examine 'What's a Family' at convergence continuum
What happens when a happily married gay couple's home is invaded by one of the duo's pot-headed, manipulating sister, with her teen daughter in-tow? According to Chad Beguelin, the author of the play Harbor, which is now on stage at convergence-continuum, the answer is angst, frustration, revelations and a surprising, if less than expected, conclusion.
Photo Flash: A COMEDY OF ERRORS at the Lakewood Playhouse
The Lakewood Playhouse presents the SECOND SHOW of our 77th SEASON: A COMEDY OF ERRORS byWilliam Shakespeare. This production will also mark the continuation of our year-long celebration of the 50th ANNIVERSARY of the very building we do all of our Productions in - THE LAKEWOOD PLAYHOUSE THEATRE. Check out photos from the production below!