REVIEW: “Dear Jack, Dear Louise” at Shakespeare & Company

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…

Shakespeare & Company Offers Free Community Presentation of “Romeo and Juliet” at Berkshire Athenaeum

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company will stage a free, community presentation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare at the Berkshire Athenaeum on Saturday, April 15 at 1:30 p.m., featuring the cast of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare and directed by Kevin G. Coleman. This production of Romeo and Juliet features Travis…

Community Performance will be Offered in Pittsfield on Friday, March 17

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company will stage a free, community presentation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare on Friday, March 17 at 7 p.m. p.m., featuring the cast of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare and directed by Kevin G. Coleman. Romeo and Juliet will be staged at the Zion Lutheran Church of…

Shakespeare & Company Announces Behind the Curtain Lecture Series

LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced a new, free lecture series: Behind the Curtain, launching Saturday, Feb. 18, and hosted by Shakespearean scholar Ann Berman. Berman, who currently serves as Vice President of Shakespeare & Company’s Volunteer Company, holds a Master of Arts in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College, London…

The Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare Returns to the Berkshires on February 11

LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company will stage a special, Valentine’s presentation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m., featuring the cast of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare and directed by Kevin G. Coleman. I’ll Be Thine, Valentine: Romeo & Juliet will be staged at the…

Shakespeare & Company Announces Cast for “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley”

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…

Shakespeare & Company Presents Costumed Reading of “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley”

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…

REVIEW: “Measure for Measure” at Shakespeare & Company

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…

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