(LENOX, Mass.) – For one night only, Shakespeare & Company will throw away the Bard’s texts in favor of show tunes, when the theater company’s ensemble is joined by a host of talent from Broadway and opera stages for Broadway in the Berkshires, the annual benefit dinner and performance for the company’s internationally-acclaimed education and…
Shakespeare & Company Satchmo at the Waldorf Written by Terry Teachout Starring John Douglas Thompson Directed by Gordon Edelstein Review by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass., August 17, 2012) – There is nary a wrong nor a false note played in Terry Teachout’s Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson as Louis Armstrong, directed by…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Satchmo at the Waldorf, a new one-man play starring OBIE Award-winner John Douglas Thompson and written by critically acclaimed author, jazz critic, and Louis Armstrong biographer Terry Teachout, receives its New England premiere beginning this week at Shakespeare & Company in a production directed by Gordon Edelstein, the award-winning artistic director of…
