Author: Macey Levin Aphra Behn is considered to be the first professional woman playwright, having been paid for her first play The Forc’d Marriage in 1670. Her plays, novels and poems were criticized […]
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Performances Run August 4 through September 4, 2016 (Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona, beginning Thursday August 4th. Written by William Shakespeare, and directed by
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Performances run August 3 through August 13 (Lenox, MA)- Shakespeare & Company brings Cry “Havoc!” to the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Written and performed by Stephan Wolfert and directed by Eric Tucker,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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