News & Updates

Shakespeare & Company Presents 37th Fall Festival of Shakespeare November 20 – 23

Semester Cinema, an educational film intensive produced in collaboration with Kingdom County Productions, will show its 2022 historical indie film epic, Lost Nation, on November 7th at 7pm at the Shakespeare & Company Elayne P. Bernstein Theater – to celebrate the program’s upcoming move to Lenox. A Q&A with the film’s director, Jay Craven, will follow the film.

Shakespeare & Company has announced that Development Operations and Database Manager Liam Castellan has been recognized in the 2025 Blackbaud Impact Awards, which celebrate organizations and people achieving results and driving impact with technology from Blackbaud, the leading provider of software for powering social impact. 

Castellan won the Rising Star Award in recognition of his technical skills and strategic vision, which, according to Blackbaud’s assessment, “positions him as an emerging leader who elevates the entire organization’s effectiveness.”

Shakespeare & Company Announces its Fall Line-up of Actor Training Intensives

Shakespeare & Company presents the New England Premiere of MOTHER PLAY: a play in five evictions by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Paula Vogel, directed by Ariel Bock, opens Sunday, August 31

A collaboration with Spirit of the Circus pairs Shakespeare with circus performers LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company and Spirit of the Circus present Circus & The Bard, co-created by

This October, Shakespeare & Company presents Celebrating Jewish Plays, an immersive weekend of staged readings held over the holiday weekend from Friday, Oct. 10, through Sunday, Oct. 12.

All patrons 18 and under may attend Romeo and Juliet free of charge through August 10 Thanks to a gift from the Harvey & Virginia Kimmel Family Fund of the

Shakespeare & Company has unveiled its new beer garden, which will remain open throughout its mainstage production of Romeo and Juliet, playing now through August 10 outdoors at the Arthur S. Waldstein