At 8:00 on Monday evening, November 16, we enjoyed a memorable SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE engagement at the NATIONAL ARTS CLUB with Richard Easton, an actor who garnered a Tony Award for his portrayal of poet A. E. Housman in the 2001 Lincoln Center production of Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. He returned to the same setting in 2006 for several roles in Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia. Other stage roles include the title character in Lincoln Center's Henry IV and Sheldon Mowbray in a Royal National Theatre revival of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off.
Mr. Easton has appeared in most of Shakespeare’s plays, revisiting many of them several times in different parts, during a career that has featured associations with legends like Peggy Ashcroft, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Tyrone Guthrie, Katharine Hepburn, John Houseman, Helen Mirren, and William Shatner. Filmgoers will recall him for roles in two Kenneth Branagh movies, Henry V and Dead Again. They’ll also remember his performances in Finding Forrester and Revolutionary Road, the latter a Sam Mendes feature that reunited Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Mr. Easton recounted some of the highlights of his distinguished career during a wide-ranging conversation with the SHAKESPEARE GUILD's John Andrews.
Admission to this event was $25 for members of either the SHAKESPEARE GUILD or the ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION and $30 for non-members. See our Membership page for categories of affiliation with the GUILD. Once there you'll find a link to a page that will enable you to enroll as a constituent, book for programs, or do both.
