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Cultured Staunton, Virginia
We Stauntonians are always pleased when nice things are said about our wonderful micropolitan area, but we also appreciate when information is accurate. The American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse is, as the name rather implies, the world's only recreation (not replica) of Shakespeare's indoor theater -- namely, the Blackfriars Playhouse. The Globe was the outdoor playhouse, located on the other side of the Thames. It held about 2500 people compared to the 500 that could fit in the Blackfriars Playhouse. The Globe and Blackfriars are connected in that it was on these stages that the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later the King's Men, played. But these two venue were not, and in the recreations (the Globe in London, Blackfriars in Staunton) are not the same place. I am sorry if this seem "picky," but a certain degree of accuracy does matter -- and matters enough to me that I jumped through what seems like an inordinate number of hoops just in order to comment on this one article from a publication on the other side of the country.— February 22, 2013 6:01 p.m.