For its 2004 offerings the Guild made use of several venues: the CORCORAN
GALLERY OF ART and the WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB in Washington and
the NATIONAL ARTS CLUB in New York. And its programs ranged from an event
devoted to food in Shakespeare with journalist FRANCINE
SEGAN to a gathering with actor and director KEITH
BAXTER that focused on his work with such legends as Sir John Gielgud
and Orson Welles.
Along the way we conversed during the first half of the
year with stage and film star KEVIN
KLINE, who had become the first American to receive a Gielgud Award,
during a delightful ceremony at Lincoln Center in July 2002, with BILL
ALEXANDER, who had directed Antony Sher in a celebrated Royal Shakespeare
Company production of Richard III, with British historians JOHN
GUY and DIARMAID MACCULLOCH, who
explored key aspects of early-modern culture, with legendary actor CHRISTOPHER
PLUMMER, who had recently earned plaudits in Barrymore, and
with playwright KEN LUDWIG, whose first
hit, Lend Me a Tenor, had premiered in London under the audpices
of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
After a summer break, we returned in September for an engagement with journalists
CHRIS HEDGES and JOHN HEILPERN.
We then proceeded to events with award-winning actress ZOE
CALDWELL, with Washington Post theater critic PETER
MARKS, with editor and scholar STANLEY
WELLS, whose many distinctions included a position as Chairman of the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, with New Yorker writer ADAM
GOPNIK, who had lauded Kevin Kline's acting at Lincoln Center during
the summer of 2002, and with PBS news anchor ROBERT
MACNEIL, who'd helped launch the Gielgud Award in 1994.
For details about offerings that have been presented in other seasons, click
on the years that follow: 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001,
2002, 2003,
2005, 2006,
2007, 2008,
2009, 2010,
2011, 2012,
2013, 2014,
2015, 2016,
2017, 2018,
2019, and 2020.
And for information about upcoming programs, visit our Current
Events page.
