As we approach March Madness and the NCAA Men's Basketball tourney, read how the little-known seer of Staunton, Virginia - Willie the Shake - makes his picks with the help of quotes from Shakespeare's greatest hits!
The CSC performed Cymbeline at Oliver's Carriage House in Columbia, Maryland in March 2011. There were about 30 of us in the audience, sitting in chairs in a big circle on the second floor with fireplace and open rafters, and the CSC cast performed in the play in that circle, as if we were being treated to Shakespeare in our living room!
I saw Helen Mirren in a production of Henry VI by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in April 1978, and didn't even know it until more than 30 years later!
Shenandoah Shakespeare: A Profile of Ralph Alan Cohen, Jim Warren and the American Shakespeare Company
I first went to the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia in August 2008 to see weekend performances of King Lear and Twelfth Night, and theater-going has never been the same since.
Blackfriars Playhouse - Home of the American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia
