Warrentown, Virginia, January 16:
We kicked off the second half of our tour with three day trips within a couple hours’ drive of Staunton. All three performances were slated to be Henry V, which is statistically dissimilar to the general bookings for the three shows; in the fall, Taming of the Shrew seemed to account for roughly [...]
Archive for January, 2008
You Can’t Always Do the Play You Want
Posted in On Touring, tagged american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, entertainment, Five Stages of Grief, Henry V, hijinks of irregular repertory, piercing eloquence tour, shakespeare, Shakespeare On Demand, Taming of the Shrew, the drama of not doing a show, theater, theatre, touring theatre on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Suspense, Surprise, Shakespeare and ‘Shylock wins!’
Posted in On Touring, tagged acting, american shakespeare center, american shakespeare center on tour, hijinks of irregular repertory, Merchant of Venice, piercing eloquence tour, Romantic Poet floozy, shakespeare, shylock wins, the drama of not doing a show, theater, theatre, touring theatre on January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Washington, D.C., November 15:
Over generations of touring troupes at the American Shakespeare Center, Georgetown has acquired notoriety for being one of the least welcoming venues on the tour. And by ‘least welcoming’ I do not mean that they have set walls with broken glass around their perimeters, nor do they spit upon our actor gabardines [...]
