Shakespeare & Company Co. Presents “The Orchard,” Online November 9 – 13, Featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov

LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company is pleased to announce it has joined a cohort of prestigious theater companies nationally to co-present The Orchard /an auction/ a groundbreaking new piece of live virtual theater.  Created by Arlekin Players, an award-winning, artist-driven theater company helmed by Ukrainian-born artistic director Igor Golyak and known for…

REVIEW: “The Closet” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

by Macey Levin Martin O’Reilly is divorced, his son won’t speak to him, he’s probably going to be fired from a job he doesn’t like at a Catholic religious supplies warehouse, he has no prospects for another job, he has no money and he owns a huge white elephant of…

Williamstown Theatre Festival Announces 2017 Summer Season

New York, NY (February 9, 2017) – Artistic Director Mandy Greenfield has announced the Williamstown Theatre Festival 2017 Summer Season, the 63rd Season for the Tony® Award-winning theatre company, which will include four world premieres, a new musical, the first production of a WTF commissioned artist, and much more. The season, running from June 27 – August 20,…

REVIEW: “The Autumn Garden” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August, 2007 The title of this 1951 Lillian Hellman play is evocative. Imagine a garden in autumn – the light just so, the summer greens muted towards brown, wind swirling colorful leaves into ever changing patterns… Of course this play is set in September on…

REVIEW: “Blithe Spirit” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2007 “The stately homes of England tho’ rather in the lurch,Provide a lot of chances for psychical researchThere’s a ghost of a crazy younger son,Who murder’d in thirteen fifty one,An extremely rowdy nun (who resented it),And people who come to callMeet her in the…