Valley Players Present “A Walk in the Woods”

Valley PlayersA Walk in the WoodsJune 20-22 and June 27-28 at 7pm. June 29 at 2:30pm.First Congregational Church, 165 Main Street, Amherst, MA Valley Players will present Lee Blessing’s timely play “A Walk in the Woods”, June 20–29, at the First Congregational Church in Amherst (165 Main Street). The show…

The Valley Players Seek Actors and Production Team for “A Walk in the Woods”

The Valley Players seek two actors and four production team members for its production of Lee Blessing’s celebrated play A Walk in the Woods. Auditions (March 24 & 26) and rehearsals will be at the Bangs Community Center (70 Boltwood Walk, Amherst MA) and the show will go up weekends June…

REVIEW: “A Body of Water” at Shakespeare & Company

by Barbara Waldinger “This is a play about trauma in all its forms. It’s about those moments in life when nothing that we think we know feels real any longer—nothing that we depended on, nothing that we knew in our hearts to be true.” These are the words of Lee…

Shakespeare & Company Opens 47th season with “A Body of Water”

LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company opens its 47th season on Friday, June 21 with A Body of Water by Lee Blessing, a comedic thriller presented outdoors at the Roman Garden Theatre through July 21.  A revised script staged only once before, Blessing’s A Body of Water tells the story of Moss and…

Shakespeare & Company Announces its 2024 Season Titles

Two World Premieres and New Spins on Shakespeare Lead Off the 47th Season LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced the titles of its 2024 season, including two World Premieres, a regional premiere, a musical exploration of Shakespeare’s language and music, and two Shakespeare productions staged under the stars on…

BREAKING!! Journalist James Bettner Brooke Gives Talkback TODAY! (7/29) at 1:30 pm at Shakespeare & Company

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,…

REVIEW: “A Walk in the Woods” at Shakespeare & Company

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…

Allyn Burrows, Jonathan Epstein Feature in Lee Blessing’s “A Walk in the Woods”

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…