American Shakespeare Center

Located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Virginia’s premiere classical theatre is at once intimate in scale and epic in imagination—creating vital, sophisticated, and accessible seasons built around a company of versatile actors performing in repertory all year round. We are a center for shared discovery by audiences, scholars, and artists of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and classics old and new. ASC on Tour takes full-length productions of Shakespeare on the road. The touring troupe travels six months out of the year, with a three-play repertory and 16 educational workshops. In ASC’s history, the company has performed for over 500 colleges, high schools, and communities, in 47 states and 5 countries. ASC’s robust education department fosters deeper connections between the company’s varied constituencies and Shakespeare. ASC stands with one foot in the Academy and the other in the Playhouse. Here, scholarly findings are integrated into practice and practice serves as a laboratory for scholarship in a rare symbiosis. From impressionable young minds to dedicated audiences to lauded scholars, ASC serves as an international home for the meeting of page and stage.