LENOX, Mass. – Casting has been announced for The Contention (Henry VI, Part II) at Shakespeare & Company, directed by Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer and staged June 17 through July 15, opening Saturday, June 24. Henry VI, Part II is commonly regarded as the strongest of the Henry VI trilogy, and the inspiration for Game of Thrones.…
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…
LENOX, Mass. — Journalist James Bettner Brooke, former editor-in-chief of Ukraine Business News, will take part in a post-show talkback following Shakespeare & Company’s 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 29 performance of A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing, offering perspective on Russian-American relations. Throughout his career, Brooke has served in myriad positions,…
by Barbara Waldinger Shakespeare & Company’s production of A Walk in the Woods is a master class in Acting. Jonathan Epstein and Allyn Burrows play Andrey Botvinnik, a career Soviet negotiator, and John Honeyman, a younger American negotiator, respectively, as they attempt to craft a treaty over the course of…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company announces the cast of A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing, to be staged outdoors at The Roman Garden Theatre on Shakespeare & Company’s Lenox, Mass. campus, July 15 through September 4, directed by James Warwick. A Pulitzer Prize finalist written at the height of the…
by Christopher Tucci Audiences heading to The New Spruce Theater, where 40 foot spruce trees are the natural backdrop to the three-quarter round stage, to see Shakespeare and Company’s King Lear should be prepared for an evening outdoors. Frequent patrons of Tanglewood are familiar with the routine: bug spray, a…
(Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company is excited to announce its 2020 summer season, May 21 – October 18, 2020. Under the theme “The Labyrinth of Love” the season includes Shakespeare titles: King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, and, in a special workshop production, Measure for Measure. The contemporary plays this season are The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David…
by Macey Levin First came the earthquake, then the tsunami that devastated villages, inundated farms, caused massive beach erosion and flooded a nuclear power plant along the English coast. All this occurs before the beginning of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children, a provocative play currently enjoying an intelligent and engrossing…
