by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The sun starts to set on a glorious late spring evening over Shakespeare & Company’s outdoor Roman Garden Theatre. As the birds chirp and fly overhead and 40’s music is piped in, we are in a perfect setting for a love story: Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear…
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…
Straight from the hit Showtime Comedy Series Funny Women of a Certain Age, featuring Carole Montgomery, Vanessa Hollingshead, and Missy Hall. Funny Women of a Certain Age® is a show straight from the unfettered mouths and uninhibited minds of the funniest, most daring, most experienced people in comedy: the women…
[Pittsfield, MA] – Experience art and theater in Downtown Pittsfield with a collaboration between Berkshire Museum and Shakespeare & Company. Saturday, May 6 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm, actors from Shakespeare & Company will take to the galleries of Berkshire Museum in a promenade-style event. Guests are invited to…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company will stage an open-captioned performance of Romeo and Juliet directed by Kevin G. Coleman at the Tina Packer Playhouse on Saturday, April 22 at 2 p.m. Ideal for audience members with hearing disabilities, open captioning features a large projection screen above the stage, displaying the text the actors…
LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company seeks two young, local actors to alternate in the role of Raynell: a bright, hopeful, seven-year-old Black girl who appears in the final scene of August Wilson’s Fences. August Wilson’s Fences will play a six-show week at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, Mass., Tuesdays through Sundays…
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company will stage a free, community presentation of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare at the Berkshire Athenaeum on Saturday, April 15 at 1:30 p.m., featuring the cast of the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare and directed by Kevin G. Coleman. This production of Romeo and Juliet features Travis…
Romeo and Juliet will be presented Saturday, March 25 as a Sensory-friendly Performance LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company will stage its first sensory-friendly performance on Saturday, March 25 at 2 p.m., presenting the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare’s production of Romeo and Juliet directed by Kevin G. Coleman at the Tina Packer Playhouse.…
