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Berkshire Weekend Cultural Highlights, Sept 15-19

This week’s cultural highlights include a restaging of Orson Welles’s landmark radio broadcast based on H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds at Shakespeare & Company; chamber concerts at Music & More and Tannery Pond; new age saxophonist Paul Winter at Hancock Shaker Village; and world renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals in Albany, N.Y.   ‘WAR…

‘War of the Worlds’ Radio Hoax Restaged at Shakespeare & Company

Elizabeth Aspenlieder stars in Shakespeare & Company's restaging of Orson Welles's radio drama 'War of the Worlds'

(LENOX, Mass.) – Orson Welles’s legendary radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds that caused panic among listeners who mistook the fictionalized program about an alien invasion for an authentic news bulletin when first broadcast on Halloween in 1938 has now been wrought for the stage and is being presented by Shakespeare &…

Marathon of New Plays at Shakespeare & Company on Monday, 9/5

(LENOX, Mass.) — Shakespeare & Company will present its 17th annual Studio Festival of Plays — a mini-marathon of plays never before performed at the Company — running one-day only on Monday, September 5, 2011, in the Founders’ Theatre. Staged readings begin at 11 am and continue through to 11 pm. Company actors and special…

Musical Benefit Raises $60K for Shakespeare Training Programs

Karmine Alers and Ryan Link (Photo by Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX , Mass.) – Broadway in the Berkshires, a special one-night event this past Monday featuring Broadway talent performing numbers from beloved Broadway musicals, raised over $60,000 to benefit Shakespeare & Company’s internationally acclaimed Education and Training Programs. An enthusiastic crowd of over 350 people enjoyed a wide range of songs and medleys from hit…

(Theater Review) ‘The Memory of Water’ at Shakespeare & Company

Elizabeth Aspenlieder and Jason Asprey in 'The Memory of Water'

Corinna May as Mary in ‘Memory of Water’ SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre Runs through Sept 4, 2011   Review by Seth Rogovoy Photos by Kevin Sprague/Courtesy Shakespeare & Company   (LENOX, Mass., July 21, 2011) – Never in memory has such a collective of serio-comic…

Shakespeare’s Rose Footprint Theatre Celebrates 10th Anniversary with ‘The Venetian Twins’

Alexandra Lincoln and Kelly Galvin (foreground) with David Joseph (photo by Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX, Mass.) – The outdoor Rose Footprint Theatre at Shakespeare & Company marks its 10th anniversary season with The Venetian Twins, a commedia dell’arte-flavored show featuring swordfights, whimsical costumes, ridiculous antics, hilarious music, and more. An outlandish comedy reminiscent of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, The Venetian Twins features a bevy of original catchy songs,…

Musical Revue to Benefit Shakespeare & Co’s Education and Training Programs

Shakespeare & Company member Deborah Grausman produces and performs in 'Broadway in the Berkshires'

(LENOX, Mass.) — Broadway in the Berkshires, a musical revue featuring an array of Broadway’s greatest hits performed by an all-star cast of Broadway talent, takes place at Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre on Monday, August 15 at 6. Proceeds will go to Shakespeare & Company’s internationally acclaimed Education and Training Programs. Producer and company…

At Shakespeare & Company, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in Black and White

Susannah Millonzi is Juliet and David Gelles is Romeo in Shakespeare & Company's new production of 'Romeo and Juliet' (photo by Kevin Sprague)

(LENOX, Mass.) – Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest and most influential love stories of all time, and perhaps William Shakespeare’s most popular play, is being given an updated, innovative treatment in a new production directed by Daniela Varon at Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre now through September 3. Generations never tire of the…