The Washington Post's weekly YourPick feature on Friday December 21 recommended Blackfriars for the weekend:

"Okay, we know what you're doing this weekend: going crazy with last-minute shopping, baking, packing, wrapping . . . whatever. After all that frenzy, you deserve something to look forward to, and so Marla Minnicino of Leesburg wrote to us with this suggestion for next weekend:

'Sure, there's plenty of Shakespeare in Washington, but instead we'll be heading to the Shenandoah Valley Dec. 28-30 for the midwinter sneak preview weekend at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton." (The Virginia town is pronounced "STAN-ton," by the way.)'"

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