News & Updates

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

Shakespeare & Company presents the American classic at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre Shakespeare & Company returns to August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with The Piano Lesson, July 25 through

Shakespeare & Company presents Romeo and Juliet, directed by Kevin G. Coleman and Jonathan Epstein, July 18 through August 10 outdoors at the Arthur S. Waldstein Amphitheatre. Epstein, who noted

Shakespeare & Company Remounts its Mash-up of Shakespeare and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training will host a 9-Day Intensive at its Lenox campus from Wednesday, August 20, through Friday, August 29. 

Shakespeare & Company invites actors, directors, physical theater artists, and Shakespeare lovers to take part in Devising Shakespeare: Creating New Work From Old Wit, a dynamic, weekend-long laboratory workshop led by Director of Training Sheila Bandyopadhyay from Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13, at the Shakespeare & Company campus in the Berkshires.

Shakespeare & Company has been recognized as one of the top outdoor theater companies in the country by Newsweek in its 2025 Readers’ Choice list of “Best Outdoor Theater Performances”.

On Thursday, June 19, Shakespeare & Company opens Season 2025 with the World Premiere of The Victim by Lawrence Goodman, directed by Daniel Gidron.

Through interconnected monologues, three women — a doctor, a home healthcare aide, and a Holocaust survivor — present their claim to be the true victims of injustice. Throughout the play, several uncomfortable questions are raised: has DEI gone too far? How do you rank whose oppression and suffering matter most? How is the memory of the Holocaust used and abused? Can we ever hope to overcome our differences?