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Shakespeare & Contemporary Plays at Shakespeare & Company in Summer 2015

(LENOX, Mass.) – “Henry V,” “The Comedy of Errors” and “Hamlet” will fill the Shakespeare slot at Shakespeare & Company for the 2015 summer season, which will also feature the regional premiere of “Red Velvet” by Lolita Chakrabarti and the world premiere of “Mother of the Maid” by Emmy Award-winning writer Jane Anderson (HBO’s “Olive…

New Play About Guys in a Barbershop to Be Staged in a Barbershop

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Kaufman’s Barber Shop, about a group of first-generation American-Jewish businessmen and professionals in upstate New York who meet regularly to have their hair cut and to socialize away from a society that accepts them only marginally, gets its world premiere in an innovative production by Shakespeare & Company staged on location at…

Tina Packer and Elizabeth Aspenlieder Face Off in Dark Irish Comedy at Shakespeare & Co.

(LENOX, Mass.) – The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, starring Shakespeare & Company founder Tina Packer and critically acclaimed company actor Elizabeth Aspenlieder, runs in the Bernstein Theatre from Thursday, August 8 through September 15, 2013. Directed by Matthew Penn, making his company debut, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tracks the dysfunctional relationship…

Shakespeare & Co. Turns Into Broadway & Co. for Evening Benefit

(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…

Miller Plays Callas in ‘Master Class’ at Shakespeare & Co.

(LENOX, Mass.) – Adding to her body of work portraying iconic women, including Golda Meir, Martha Mitchell, and the title character in Charles Busch’s ‘Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,’” Eliot Norton Award-winning actress Annette Miller tackles the role of operatic diva Maria Callas in Terrance McNally’s Master Class, officially kicking off Shakespeare & Company’s 36th…

David Sedaris’s ‘Santaland Diaries’ at Shakespeare & Co. for 3rd and Final Year

(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company’s annual – and final – run of David Sedaris’ irreverent Christmas memoir, The Santaland Diaries, opens on Friday, November 30, 2012, at 7:30 p.m., and runs through Sunday, December 30, 2012, in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. This year, longtime company member David Joseph Hansen plays Sedaris’s less-than-merry autobiographical…

Olympia Dukakis to Return to Shakespeare & Co. in Brecht’s ‘Mother Courage’

(LENOX, Mass.) — Fresh on the heels of her critically acclaimed performance in last summer’s production of The Tempest, Academy Award-winning actor Olympia Dukakis will return to Shakespeare & Company next summer to play the title role in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, directed by company artistic director Tony Simotes. The production marks…

Hitchcock Spoof Kicks Off Shakespeare & Company’s Fall Season

(LENOX, Mass.) – Shakespeare & Company opens its 2012-2013 Fall & Winter season with The 39 Steps, a comic adaptation of John Buchan’s novel, which also draws inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film of the same name, on Saturday, September 22, 2012. Featuring an all-star ensemble of company talent, including Elizabeth Aspenlieder (Bad Dates), Jason…