(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…
“In a thousand years man will sigh just the same, ‘Ah, how hard life is,’ and yet just as now he will be afraid of death and not want it.”– Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters, translated by Constance Garnett Ventfort Hall, as it is struggling to become fully refurbished and functional…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2003 This is a review of four separate plays/monologues and one afternoon at the theatre. After succeeding in previous years with collections of one-act plays based on the works of Edith Wharton and Henry James, Shakespeare & Company is presenting four short pieces by…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2002. Dennis Krausnick and a familiar group of actors have teamed once again to bring two tiny gems of Edith Wharton’s writing to the stage. Roman Fever and The Other Two both hold a magnifying glass to social convention. In a world that is all surface and appearance,…
