LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced five, free Behind the Curtain lectures to be held throughout the summer, highlighting the casts, crew, and themes that power its 2023 productions. Led by Shakespearean scholar Ann Berman, who holds a Master of Arts in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College, London, Behind the…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company announces today its full, 2023 season: a mix of classic and modern titles opening this May and continuing through December. Tickets are on sale now for all of Shakespeare & Company’s 46th Season shows, with four titles joining the three announced in November. In total, the Season includes three…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company’s Free Friday Talks continue under the tent at the Rose Footprint Theatre, with a discussion of Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues on Friday, August 26, at 10:30 a.m. Hosted by educator and member of Shakespeare & Volunteer Company Ann Berman, Free Friday Talks examine various themes surrounding many of the 2022…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 2006 I’ll eat my hat if Dan McCleary’s side-splitting production of Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters isn’t the best comedy of this summer season. It is funny and fresh, performed with vigor by a top-notch cast. And admission is free! How could it get…
by Gail M. Burns, July, 2005. Down in the field behind the Founders’ Theatre at Shakespeare & Company, under a big white tent, sits the Rose Footprint Playhouse. Someday the company hopes to build an historically accurate replica of the Rose Theatre there. In the meantime the Rose Footprint serves…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2002. I had occasion to speak to one of my high school English teachers last weekend, and I upbraided her for failing to introduce me to Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays. I remember distinctly taking a semester-long course on Shakespeare’s history plays in my junior…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2002. My son Brandon and I walked down into the meadow behind the Founders’ Theatre on an impossibly beautiful Berkshire summer day and found that that “thing” out there was a magical and welcoming outdoor theatre. We could sit on beach chairs in the…
