LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has awarded the 2023 Philip Heller Award for Distinguished Service to Sandra Bourgeois of Richmond, Mass. Bourgeois, a member of Shakespeare & Company’s Board of Trustees and past president of its Volunteer Company, is the sixth and latest recipient of the award, established in 2019…
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 Roseann Cane I lived in Manhattan for many years, and, particularly downtown and in other neighborhoods heavily populated with tourists, fast-talking young men enticing naive people to bet on a game of three-card monte were a familiar sight. Standing behind makeshift tables made of a few crates and…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 Harper Lee (1926- ) published only one novel, but in her case one is enough. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) is a truly deserving Pulitzer Prize winner, weaving together elements of faith and hope, comedy and tragedy, seen through the fresh eyes of youth –…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2008 I confess that I don’t quite understand the current kiddy mania for all things piratical. But be that as it may, right now everyone loves pirates and so Shakespeare and Company is cashing in on the craze with their first-ever original free family…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2007 “This is our adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation, related to our own community and circumstances with respect for classic form.”– Jonathan Croy, Director, Scapin I will entitle this review: “Scapin, or A Whole Lot of Fun for Free.” Shakespeare & Company has…
