Favorites of 2025: Barbara Waldinger
2025 was an exciting and innovative season—a mix of new plays and classics, chock full of exceptional performances, directors and designers. Barbara Waldinger’s Top Ten…
Favorites of 2025: Jeannie Marlin Woods
Once again, the remarkable Berkshires theatre scene was replete with variety, excellence, and creativity. Writing in December, as I look back on a season that…
REVIEW: “The Piano Lesson” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger On January 27, 1997, August Wilson (playwright) debated Robert Brustein (director, critic, professor) in New York’s Town Hall about race in the…
August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” Opens at Shakespeare & Company
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company returns to August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with The Piano Lesson, July 25 through August 24 at the Elayne P. Bernstein…
Shakespeare & Company Announces Its First Titles of Season 2025
A World Premiere, a New Play Reading Series, and a Return to August Wilson join the Bard LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced its first…
Seventh Berkshire Theatre Awards Presented
Top Honors Split Four Ways PITTSFIELD, MA (November 13, 2023) – At an SRO ceremony held at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield, the Board of the…
Book Signing with August Wilson Biographer Patti Hartigan August 12 at Shakespeare & Company
LENOX, Mass. – In tandem with its production of August Wilson’s Fences, Shakespeare & Company will host a book signing, pre-show reception, and post-show talkback with Patti…
REVIEW: “Fences” at Shakespeare & Company
by Barbara Waldinger August Wilson’s towering play Fences, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama, is a challenging work for any theatre to produce. Expectations…