News

If you are attending Saturday, May 18th's THE DUCHESS OF MALFI at 2:00pm and TWELFTH NIGHT at 7:30pm, please be advised that the 10s block of West Beverley will be closed due to Staunton Jams.
"I unequivocally consider [this] production of the play....a theatrical tour de force."
ASC's "Tempt Me Further Tour...turns this Elizabethan wordfest into a modern funfest, a jocund gathering of them and us together creating a great thing called theater."
"The actors in this stellar company present most of the characters with great psychological fluidity and bring rich renderings to their portrayals, including some refreshingly keen readings of roles."
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Education & Research

In 2013, ASC Education will expand our Summer Teacher Seminar to a three-day adventure in the mechanics of putting together an early modern play in your classroom.
In July, the ASC takes its successful No Kidding Shakespeare Camp to London for a week-long tour of Shakespeare's haunts and habits.
Cure your students' fear of Shakespeare by bringing them to the Blackfriars Playhouse for one of our nine 2013-2014 Student Matinees, including ROMEO AND JULIET, AS YOU LIKE IT, OTHELLO, and HENRY IV, PART 1.
Students ages 13-18, join us June 16-July 7 or July 14-August 7 to be immersed in Shakespeare's Staging Conditions.

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On Stage at the Blackfriars

2013 Spring Season

12th Night

Twelfth Night

NOW PLAYING through JUNE 16

Writing at the height of his powers, Shakespeare provides a feast of language and songs — and a stage full of memorable characters. Sublime and subversive, Twelfth Nightbreaks rules and bends gender to show love in all its guises and disguises. More 

 

LLL

Love's Labour's Lost

NOW PLAYING through JUNE 15

Written around the same time as Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this giddy and extravagant romantic comedy is Shakespeare’s most exuberant wordfest — a joyful carnival of love, loss, and hope. More 


Duchess

The Duchess of Malfi

NOW PLAYING through JUNE 15

John Webster’s brutal and astonishing play tells the story of one of the stage’s greatest women and two of its greatest villains in a dark tapestry of sibling rivalry, forbidden love, unquenchable ambition, and ensuing madness. More 


 

Coming Soon

2013 25th Anniversary Summer Season

R&J Banner

Starts June 11

Planet Banner

Starts June 18

All's Well Banner

Starts July 7


WITH GRATITUDE TO OUR ANNUAL SPONSORS:

Paul Beers and Michelle Buonocore of Roanoke, VA

Rory J. Cutaia and Jaymie A. Cutaia of Middlebrook, VA 

J. Kerry Clayton and Paige Royer of New Orleans, LA

Grisanti Capital Management of New York, NY

Dan Layman and Pamela Fox of Staunton, VA

Chris and Betsy Little of McDowell, VA

Lawrence and Sandra Rose of Penn Laird, VA

Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center 

Frederick House, a small hotel, celebrating more than 10 years as our Annual Sponsor





Shakespeare in American Communities

We are proud to acknowledge that the American Shakespeare Center receives financial support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.


American Shakespeare Center's student matinee program is part of Shakespeare for a New Generation a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts and ArtsMidwest.


The American Shakespeare Center is proud to partner with Mary Baldwin College.

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Twelfth Night

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 7:30 pm

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Twelfth Night - Student Matinee

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 10:30 am

TalkBack

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 1:00 pm

Love's Labour's Lost

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 7:30 pm

TalkBack

Thursday, May 23, 2013, 10:00 pm

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The Duchess of Malfi

Friday, May 24, 2013, 7:30 pm

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Twelfth Night

Saturday, May 25, 2013, 2:00 pm

Love's Labour's Lost

Saturday, May 25, 2013, 7:30 pm

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The Duchess of Malfi

Sunday, May 26, 2013, 2:00 pm

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Love's Labour's Lost

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 7:30 pm

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The Duchess of Malfi

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 7:30 pm

TalkBack

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 10:00 pm

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Twelfth Night

Friday, May 31, 2013, 7:30 pm

   

ASC on Tour

All the world's a stage, and the American Shakespeare Center On Tour has played it. More