This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 2 November 2008

A rundown of the upcoming week's events at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA. This edition covers the week of 2 November 2008.
File Size: 6.3 MB. Running Time: 4 minutes, 29 seconds.

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 2 November 2008

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 26 October 2008

A rundown of the upcoming week's events at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA. This edition covers the week of 26 October 2008.
File Size: 6.2 MB. Running Time: 4 minutes, 23 seconds.

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 26 October 2008

Doctor Ralph Reveals All: TWELFTH NIGHT

Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen, American Shakespeare Center Director of Mission and Professor of English at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA, delivers a pre-show lecture before a live audience at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse. In this fun, thoughtful lecture, Dr. Cohen details the atmosphere in England at the time Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night – his last true comedy – and examines the relationships between the play's colorful cast of characters.
File Size: 18 MB, Running Time: 39:00.

Doctor Ralph Reveals All: TWELFTH NIGHT

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 19 October 2008

A rundown of the upcoming week's events at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA. This edition covers the week of 19 October 2008.
File Size: 5.6 MB. Running Time: 4 minutes.

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 19 October 2008

Blackfriars Backstage Pass: RICHARD II

In this edition of the Blackfriars Backstage Pass, American Shakespeare Center resident troupe actors John Pasha (Bullingbrook), Chris Seiler (Ross/Exton), Allison Glenzer (Duchess of York), and John Harrell (Richard II) join ASC Director of Mission and Mary Baldwin College Shakespeare Professor Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen in a frank, thoughtful examination of the ASC's current 2008 Summer/Fall Season production of Richard II. Discussions center on characterization, relationships, the use of verse, and favorite lines.
File Size: 21.9 MB. Running Time: 47 minutes, 26 seconds

Blackfriars Backstage Pass: RICHARD II

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 12 October 2008

A rundown of the upcoming week's events at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA. This edition covers the week of 12 October 2008.
File Size: 5.9 MB. Running Time: 4 minutes, 10 seconds.

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 12 October 2008

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 5 October 2008

A rundown of the upcoming week's events at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA. This edition covers the week of 5 October 2008.
File Size: 4.7 MB. Running Time: 3 minutes, 19 seconds.

This Week at the Blackfriars: Week of 5 October 2008

Doctor Ralph Reveals All: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Dr. Ralph Alan Cohen, American Shakespeare Center Director of Mission and Professor of English at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA, delivers a pre-show lecture before a live audience at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse. In this thoughtful lecture, Dr. Cohen examines the origins of the script, and delves into Measure for Measure's status as one of Shakespeare's "problem plays". This lecture was recorded on 1 October 2008.
File Size: 18.9 MB, Running Time: 40:54.

Doctor Ralph Reveals All: MEASURE FOR MEASURE