American Shakespeare Center Announces 2010-2011 Season

The American Shakespeare Center has announced selections for its 2010-2011 season, which will include six plays in rotating repertory. All ASC productions will be presented in the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia.

The lineup features eight plays by Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew; Othello; Henry IV, Part 2; As You Like It; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; The Comedy of Errors; and Henry VI, Part 3. Also included are four plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare: The Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood; The Malcontent by John Marston; Look About You by Anonymous; and A Trick to Catch the Old One by Thomas Middleton.

The season will also include the post-Restoration comedy Wild Oats by John O’Keeffe, as well as three modern holiday plays: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, and The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben.

For more information, visit www.ASCstaunton.com.