(LENOX, Mass.) — On Monday, August 6, 2012, Shakespeare & Company surpassed $1 million in ticket sales for the 2012-2013 performance season, the earliest date the theater troupe has reached that figure in its 35 year history. This feat also puts Shakespeare & Company 22.5% ahead of its box office totals from last year’s performance…
(LENOX, Mass.) – In the great tradition of its fidelity to the text combined with freewheeling imagination, Shakespeare & Company is staging the Bard’s final play, The Tempest, in a fresh and provocative take helmed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, featuring Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis playing the lead role of the banished Duke…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors will be screened at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Thursday, March 1, 2012, at 7 p.m. (and at 2 p.m. at The Clark in Williamstown, Mass.) as part of the London National Theatre Live in HD series. This new production, directed by the Royal Court’s Artistic Director…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – The BIFF’s REEL Friends Film Society presents a special screening of Roland Emmerich’s latest film, Anonymous, which will include a special Q&A and conversation with the movie’s screenwriter, John Orloff, who lives in nearby Columbia County, N.Y., immediately following the film on Thursday, November 10, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. at the…
(Lenox, MA) –As You Like It, one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, runs through September 4 in Shakespeare & Company’s Founders’ Theatre in Lenox, Mass. Abounding in fools, lovers, and cross-dressers, this is the sort of production that Shakespeare & Company does best. Directed by company artistic director Tony Simotes, this As You Like It is…
REALIST PAINTING at HARRISON GALLERY Generation II by Judith Solomon The Harrison Gallery will present a group show of realist painting by five masters of the genre – Hale Johnson, John MacDonald, Nick Patten, Judith Solomon, Kim Denise, and Carol Gobin, opening with an artists reception on Saturday, June 4, at 5. The exhibition runs…
