The Other Side of Summer
How the season’s theatre festivals are faring amid rising costs, fickle audiences, and the warming planet.
All Stories About American Shakespeare Center
Artistic Director Brandon Carter to Leave American Shakespeare Center
The theatre’s first leader of color, who has acted with the company since 2018, will step down after 4 years in the position.
Vanessa Morosco Named American Shakespeare Center Executive Director
Morosco succeeds founding executive director Ralph Cohen.
Do We Not Laugh? Revising ‘The Complete Works’ for 2023
A comic theatre staple that originated at the ’87 Edinburgh Fringe, this speed-Shakespeare romp has gotten a new revision for the age of #MeToo and #Black Lives Matter.
Melissa Crespo’s ‘Aha’ Moments
The busy stage director, now represented by ‘Yoga Play,’ is eager to garner both weighty conversations and big laughs.
American Shakespeare Center Forms New Leadership Model
The multi-department management group includes longtime company member Brandon Carter serving as artistic director.
‘You Could Be King’
When it comes to Shakespeare and Western classics, questions of legacy and belonging get raised when Black men take the stage—and the answers are increasingly clear and powerful.
American Shakespeare Center Announces Summer Season
The company’s cohort of actor-managers will lead a season of three shows in repertory.
An Offstage Tempest at American Shakespeare Center
The Virginia company, reeling from a tumultuous year, moves forward without the leader many company members say made it worse, Ethan McSweeny.
Ethan McSweeny Resigns After Brief Tenure Leading ASC
The company will move forward with an actor-led model intended to echo the production process of Shakespeare’s theatre.
