Artistic Director Jim Warren announced the 2013-2014 season of plays for the American Shakespeare Center prior to the opening night performance of the ninth Actors' Renaissance Season at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia. The upcoming season will be the 25th anniversary for the professional classical theater company that began as the touring Shenandoah Shakespeare Express in 1988. The season features eight plays by William Shakespeare including Timon of Athens, performances of which will complete the cycle of performing all of the plays of Shakespeare by the company for the very first time.
In addition to Shakespeare the season will feature Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Ben Jonson's Epicene (or, The Silent Woman), Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters and Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy. The modern rock-and-roll musical, Bob Carlton's Return to the Forbidden Planet will make its company debut next summer.
The American Shakespeare Center will also produce the 25th Anniversary World's Mine Oyster Tour which will travel the country performing three of Shakespeare's plays. The popular Holiday season offerings of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol, NPR's David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries and ASC actor Ginna Hoben's The Twelve Dates of Christmas will also return to the Blackfriars Playhouse.
The 2013 Summer Season
June 21-September 1, 2013
Romeo and Juliet
Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
All's Well That Ends Well
The 2013 Fall Season
September 3 - December 1, 2013
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Troilus and Cressida
Romeo and Juliet
Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton
All's Well That Ends Well
The 2013 Holiday Season
December 3 - December 29, 2013
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted for the stage by Jim Warren
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben
Plus preview performances of the touring
Othello
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Henry IV, Part 1
The 2014 Actors' Renaissance Season
January 3 - April 6, 2014
As You Like It
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Timon of Athens
Epicene (or, the Silent Woman) by Ben Jonson
The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
The 2013-2014 25th Anniversary World's Mine Oyster Tour
mid-September to mid-November 2013 in the Middle Atlantic and New England
mid-January to early April 2014 in the South and Midwest
The 2014 Spring Season
April 9 - June 15, 2014
Othello
Henry IV, Part 1
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Pre-sale of tickets through subscription packages begins in March and single tickets go on sale on April 15, 2013. Information and tickets are available from the Blackfriars Playhouse box office by phone at 1-877-MUCH-ADO (682-4236), in person at 10 S. Market Street in downtown Staunton or online at www.AmericanShakespeareCenter.com. The ASC's 2013/2014 brochure will be available by mail and online at the website beginning in mid-March. The brochure contains descriptions of all the plays and a full calendar of performances from June 2013 through June 2014.
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