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Author: Jeffrey Borak LENOX >> Stephan Wolfert’s life changed in the most unlikely way in the most unlikely place — witnessing a live performance of William Shakespeare’s “Richard III” in a theater

Author: Don Aucoin LENOX — Even granting that productivity-sapping distractions are an occupational hazard for any writer, Aphra Behn certainly has her hands full in “Or,” a clever and beguiling comedy

Author: Macey Levin Aphra Behn is considered to be the first professional woman playwright, having been paid for her first play The Forc’d Marriage in 1670. Her plays, novels and poems were criticized

Author: Steve Barnes Rich with pleasures theatrical, linguistic, philosophical and comedic, Liz Duffy Adams’ play “Or,” at Shakespeare & Company is a witty romp inspired by the life of Aphra Behn,

Author: J. Peter Bergman William Shakespeare was a master at the mismatched lovers plot. He proved it again and again in his comedies and his tragedies. In the light-hearted “A Midsummer

Author: J. Peter Bergman If you like to laugh, long, hard and hearty as I do, there is no better place to do it than in the Rose Footprint Tent on

Author: Macey Levin One of the delights each summer at Shakespeare and Co. is the over-the-top farces staged at the Rose Footprint. This tent-covered playing space is similar to 16th and

Author: Terry Teachout “The Merchant of Venice,” like “The Taming of the Shrew,” is one of the Shakespeareplays that makes modern audiences feel increasingly and understandably uncomfortable. To interpret the tale