Will Kempe’s Players Announces 2026 Season

Hear ye, hear ye! Without further ado and with unmeasured excitement, Will Kempe’s Players (WKP) is pleased to announce our summer repertory season – totaling, as promised, THREE shows for 2026. Come April, once we’ve finished crowning the rightful king of Scotland, we’re rollicking right into repertory season. This summer…

MCLA Theatre Announces Four Shows for 2024-2025 Academic Year

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ MCLA Theatre program announces its 2024-2025 season, featuring four productions. The season opens November 8-10 with William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” directed by MCLA Professor of Theatre Laura Standley. In this bold re-telling, MCLA Theatre explores a world where crime and…

Auditions for “Measure for Measure”

Casting for Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure.  The performance will take place at the Blithewood Garden on Bard Campus in early May. In-person auditions will be held on March 23, 24, 30, and 31 at Bard Campus, 17 N Ravine Rd., Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. This project is not compensated.  Rehearsals will take place…

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…

Shakespeare & Company Announces Cast for “Measure for Measure”

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…

Shakespeare & Company Launches Free Friday Talks this Month

New Lecture Series to Offer Insight on Season’s Titles Through the Spring and Summer LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced the creation of a new, free lecture series slated to launch on Friday, April 22. Hosted by educator and member of Shakespeare & Volunteer Company Ann Berman, Free Friday Talks…

Tickets on Sale Now for Shakespeare & Company’s Classic Performances

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…