by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The suffering working class, inequities in pay between the haves and have-nots, lack of vocational mobility, drug and alcohol abuse, and racism all play critical roles in Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning play appearing at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, New York. Confronted with the…
ALBANY (March 1) – Capital Repertory Theatre is excited to open its first show of 2024, Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Sweat” by Lynn Nottage. Based on interviews with residents of Reading, Pennsylvania, Nottage brings her breathtaking storytelling to characters and situations that have become far too recognizable in the heart of…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company presents a staged reading of Hamlet featuring Christopher Lloyd and Finn Wittrock, Friday, Sept. 1 through Sunday, Sept. 3, 2 p.m. Murder both intentional and accidental as well as madness both piteous and pretended will haunt the Tina Packer Playhouse as Shakespeare & Company for a three-performance-only reading…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The sun starts to set on a glorious late spring evening over Shakespeare & Company’s outdoor Roman Garden Theatre. As the birds chirp and fly overhead and 40’s music is piped in, we are in a perfect setting for a love story: Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear…
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…
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…
Two Shakespeare Plays and a Greek Tragedy Adaptation to be Staged in 2022 LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced tickets are on sale now for the three Classic productions of its 45th Season: Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure, and An Iliad, an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem by Lisa Peterson and Denis…
