by gwffoundation | Apr 23, 2016 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
Governor Terry McAuliffe has proclaimed today – Saturday, April 23, 2016 – as Shakespeare Day in Virginia! While we’re planning and preparing Shakespeare on the Lawn in June, our first-ever Shakespeare Camp in July, and Shakespeare by Candlelight in...
by gwffoundation | Aug 17, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
The Rude Mechanicals presented candlelight performances of William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline this past weekend at Historic...
by gwffoundation | Aug 5, 2015 | Lives & Legacies, Theater and Theater History
Virginia celebrates a proud theatrical history. It boasts the first recorded performance of a play in all the colonies. It also claims the first permanent playhouse and the first evening of professional theatre. That first evening was in September of 1752 and was...
by gwffoundation | Jun 17, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
King Lear is known far and wide as William Shakespeare’s finest tragedy but it has not always been the preferred version of the story. In part one, we saw how Shakespeare popularized the old story of King Lear by crafting a story aimed directly at Elizabethan...
by gwffoundation | Jun 15, 2015 | Historic Kenmore, Lives & Legacies
Shakespeare on the Lawn returned to Historic Kenmore this past weekend with the first two performances of King Lear. Below are photos from the shows. Don’t worry if you missed this past weekend’s performances because there are two more shows this coming...
