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 […]
WSJ Review: The Merchant of Venice – Art that makes you squirm Read More »
Author: David Robinson, Lanesborough To the editor: That was fun, wasn’t it? The flags and fireworks, the beer and barbecues, the parades and picnics, and everybody’s a patriot for a rollicking
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Author: Sharon Smullen One of the Bard’s most endearing and enduring comedies, “Twelfth Night,” penned to celebrate the end of Christmas, is this summer’s offering by Shakespeare & Company at the
Author: Steve Barnes No words accompany the action in a heartbreaking moment in Shakespeare & Company‘s new “The Merchant of Venice,” but the effect is wallopingly powerful: The great Shakespearean actor Jonathan Epstein,
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Author: Steve Barnes On her third deployment to Afghanistan, Jess, the young woman at the center of the profoundly affecting drama “Ugly Lies the Bone,” was blown up by an IED.
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Author: Joseph Dalton Lenox troupe staging acclaimed play about female vet’s return home. It’s not a pretty title, “Ugly Lies the Bone,” the play that begins previews tonight at Shakespeare & Company.
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Author: Michael Hagerty Berkshires And The Pioneer Valley 8. Shakespeare & Company Shakespeare & Company, based in Lenox, will be commemorating the 400th anniversary of the troupe’s namesake by bringing back
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Author: J. Peter Bergman The opening play at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA is also the opening salvo for an election year of entertainment NOT mentioning the presumptive Republican nominee.
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Author: Steve Barnes Given the nasty tone of this election year, mounting a play boiling with shouted political argument seems a perverse choice for a theater company and a borderline masochistic
Times Union Review: A rowdy political satire Read More »
Author: Jeffrey Borak LENOX — San Francisco playwright Lauren Gunderson is among America’s 10 most produced playwrights this season. Her work has been seen once before in Berkshire County — November
Berkshire Eagle: The Bard Runs amok through U.S. history in “The Taming” Read More »