Thanks to events in venues like the BRITISH EMBASSY, the NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, and the SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY in Washington, the NATIONAL ARTS CLUB in New York, and the ELI BROAD AUDITORIUM in Santa Monica, recent attendees have conversed with actors Jane Alexander, Keith Baxter, Brian Bedford, Simon Russell Beale, Zoe Caldwell, Dame Judi Dench, Henry Goodman, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Hal Holbrook, Bill Irwin, Dana Ivey, Sir Derek Jacobi, Kevin Kline, Sir Ian McKellen, Roger Rees, Prunella Scales, Jean Stapleton, Janet Suzman, Timothy West, and Michael York, directors Bill Alexander, Peter Brook, and Michael Kahn, dramatists Edward Albee, Michael Frayn, Ken Ludwig, David Mamet, and Peter Shaffer, media leaders Robert MacNeil, Bill Press, Cokie Roberts, and Susan Stamberg, and writers E. R. Braithwaite, Paul Dickson, Sir Harold Evans, Flora Fraser, Sir David Frost, Adam Gopnik, Stephen Greenblatt, Anthony Hecht, Judith Martin, James Shapiro, Jesse Sheidlower, Deborah Tannen, and Garry Wills.
GUILD constituents enjoy member prices at all SPEAKING OF SHAKESPEARE and GIELGUD programs. Subscribers ($50 a year) receive 15% discounts on Gielgud galas. Contributors ($125) receive 20% discounts, Donors ($250) receive 25% discounts, and Benefactors ($500) receive 30% discounts. Patrons ($1,000) get four prime tickets free, and receive 35% discounts on further tickets. Sustainers ($2,500) get ten prime tickets free and receive 40% discounts on further tickets. Any payments not offset by benefits claimed are fully tax-deductible. For more details, and for an order form that facilitates online transactions, click here.
