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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

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

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,

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.