Shakespeare & CompanyCelebrating Jewish Plays: An Immersive Weekend of Staged Readings Oct 10, 2025 at 7:00 PMOct 1270 Kemble St, Lenox MA 01240 This fall, Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., introduces the Celebrating Jewish Plays: An Immersive Weekend of Staged Readings, October 10 – 12. Four readings will be staged…
LENOX, Mass. – This October, Shakespeare & Company presents Celebrating Jewish Plays, an immersive weekend of staged readings held over the holiday weekend from Friday, Oct. 10, through Sunday, Oct. 12. The weekend will feature four enhanced, staged readings of acclaimed plays, plus a special literary event. Barry R. Shapiro, co-chair of…
The Bunbury Players are still in search of two male-presenting actors to portray two wonderfully written characters in The Heidi Chronicles! Scoop Rosenbaum: Heidi’s sometime lover, a charismatic, Jewish journalist with irresistible charm and sex appeal; he’s an insightful, successful, well-educated overachiever who is attractive and self-centered; incredibly smart, with an ability…
Announcing auditions for Bunbury Players’ production THE HEIDI CHRONICLES Written by Wendy WasstersteinDirected by Amy Hausknecht AuditionsSaturday, September 10th at 1PMSaratoga Springs Public LibraryDutcher Community Room No preparation needed – you will be asked to do cold readings from the script **Proof of vaccination REQUIRED to audition! All roles are open…
by Barbara Waldinger Wendy Wasserstein, who passed away in 2006 at the age of 55, wrote several plays about college-educated women of her generation who struggled to find their own identity in a male-dominated world. One would imagine, given the current socio-political atmosphere, that these works would be ripe for…
When a 20-year-old play still seems fresh today, one has to wonder if out current political scene has regressed as much as it has advanced. Wendy Wasserstein was prescient in her observation of misogynistic politics. Picture: Diane Davis and Saidah Arrika Ekulona. Photograph T. Charles Erickson.
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June, 1999 This sounds like a really good idea. Get seven award-winning modern playwrights to each write a play based on one of Shakespeare’s sonnets and stage them all in one evening. Shakespeare is the man of the hour, and how can you go wrong…
