"... The sheer number of productions that the ASC has staged in its history is dizzying. Somewhere between the first—Richard III back in 1988, when the company was still known as the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express—and its upcoming retelling of the same rise and fall of the cynical Duke of Gloucester, the company has taken its commitment to preserving Shakespearean staging conditions and grown into an institution with its own time-honored traditions. Focusing on plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, presenting them house lights up, with minimal sets in the world’s only re-creation of the Blackfriars Theatre—these are the obvious traditions that come to mind. But there are others, more subtle, that have to do with spending your life playing Shakespeare’s characters and have been passed along between the troupe members who have called Staunton home over the years. If the Bard himself were telling the story of the American Shakespeare Center, he would do it through the actors..."

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Written by Spencer Peterson for C-Ville Weekly, January 10, 2012.

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