Press Release

Shakespeare & Company has announced the cast of its Season 2026 opener, Fireflies by Matthew Barber, directed by Daniela Varon. 

Slated to preview June 19 and 20 with a Sunday, June 21 opening at  2 p.m., Fireflies runs through July 19 and marks Shakespeare & Company’s first production of a Barber play in 20 years, having staged Enchanted April in 2006. 

Shakespeare & Company announces its third annual Community Day, a free, family-friendly celebration on Saturday, May 23, from 11 am to 4 pm at the Shakespeare & Company campus in Lenox, Massachusetts.

Shakespeare & Company’s Board of Directors is proud to announce the appointment of Molly Merrihew as the organization’s new Executive Director, who takes the helm just as the Company approaches

County-Wide Event Features Call for Artists in All Disciplines Berkshire County, Mass. – ArtWeek Berkshires, a county-wide collaboration, will take place May 15-25, and you can be a part of

Barbara Waldinger, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Theatre, Director, and Theatre Critic, is helming the OLLI Players’ staged reading of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here (a 1930s novel and play adapted in 2017 by Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen). The
performance, scheduled for Sunday afternoon, April 19 , at 2:00 pm, at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse (70 Kemble St., Lenox, MA), is free and open to all, but pre-registration is required (limited seating): https://berkshireolli.org/event-6632410.

Big Table Productions is excited to host a Fundraiser For Good: A reading of It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis on Friday April 17 at 8 p.m., at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company.

As a novel written in 1936, the 2016 theatrical adaptation by Tony Taccone and Bennett S. Cohen tells the story of a Vermont newspaper editor caught in the whirlwind election of a larger-than-life Presidential candidate, Buzz Windrip. Brash, bold, charming, and funny, Buzz takes the White House and then the country by storm. Minute Men are deployed throughout the nation to enforce order. Lockdowns commence. Martial law is declared. And then, the citizens begin to respond. 

To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday and school vacation week, Shakespeare & Company presents a series of accessible performances and accompanying events April 23 through 25.

Performed by the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare, Hamlet directed by Kevin G. Coleman and Victoria Rhoades will be staged at the Tina Packer Playhouse on April 23 through 25, during Massachusetts public school vacation. Three open-captioned performances featuring “supertitles,” which display the actors’ spoken text in real time to create a more accessible experience for Deaf and hard-of-hearing audience members, will be held on Thursday, April 23 at 6 p.m., Friday, April 24 at 2 p.m., and Saturday, April 25 at 6 p.m.

Opening June 19, individual tickets and FLEXpass ticket packages are on sale now  LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company has announced its full line-up for Season 2026, unveiling a slate

Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training has announced its Spring 2026 schedule of actor training workshops and weekend intensives, offering in-person programs for actors, voice practitioners, and theater artists across the country.

The spring programs will be held from March through May, and include Weekend Intensives in six cities, as well as two in-depth workshops in New York City and Lenox, Massachusetts. 

Three- and five-show FLEXpass ticket packages are on sale now at discounted rates Shakespeare & Company announces today the first titles of its 2026 season, including two Shakespeare plays and