LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced five, free Behind the Curtain lectures to be held throughout the summer, highlighting the casts, crew, and themes that power its 2023 productions. Led by Shakespearean scholar Ann Berman, who holds a Master of Arts in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College, London, Behind the…
LENOX, Mass. – With marquee actors including Christopher Lloyd, Karen Allen, Tony Todd, Ella Joyce, Reed Birney, Annette Miller, Jacob Ming-Trent, and Finn Wittrock added to the boards among many others, casts have been announced for Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season Thieves of Love, opening Friday, May 26 and running through October 22, 2023. Artistic Director Allyn Burrows said the season…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company seeks two young, local actors to alternate in the role of Raynell: a bright, hopeful, seven-year-old Black girl who appears in the final scene of August Wilson’s Fences. August Wilson’s Fences will play a six-show week at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, Mass., Tuesdays through Sundays…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company announces today its full, 2023 season: a mix of classic and modern titles opening this May and continuing through December. Tickets are on sale now for all of Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season shows, with four titles joining the three announced in November. In total, the Season includes three…
Jane Austen-inspired, Costumed Reading will be Staged December 16 through 18 LENOX, Mass. – Casting has been announced for Shakespeare & Company’s holiday reading of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, and directed by Ariel Bock. Four performances of this imagined sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and…
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley is presented in honor of Shakespeare & Company Costume Director Govane Lohbauer, and in memory of actor, teacher, and weapons master Bob Lohbauer, who passed away in September 2022. Shakespeare & Company returns to the world of Jane Austen-inspired theater with a lively, costumed reading of Miss Bennet: Christmas…
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, now being staged at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse, is known as a “problem play.” Neither tragedy nor comedy, it lives somewhere in between, which is probably why it is rarely produced. But this Lenox company ended up with more problems than…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced the cast of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare – to be staged at the Tina Packer Playhouse at the Shakespeare & Company campus, from August 19 through September 18. Opening performance is Directed by Alice Reagan, Measure for Measure follows Lord Angelo, abruptly appointed to rule…
