Shakespeare & Company has earned 10 Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award nominations for productions staged during the 2024 season, including two nods in the Outstanding Production of a Play category.
The Berkshire Theatre Critic Association Awards – also known as The Berkies – recognize plays produced in theaters across Berkshire County, the Pioneer Valley, Southern Vermont, Northern Connecticut, and Eastern New York State, including the Capital District and the Catskills. This year, Shakespeare & Company’s nominations include:
Outstanding Costume Design of a Play or Musical
Govane Lohbauer, The Comedy of Errors
Outstanding Direction of a Play
Regge Life, The Islanders
and
James Warwick, A Body of Water
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play
Allyn Burrows, Flight of the Monarch
and
“ranney”, The Islanders
Outstanding Ensemble Performance
The Comedy of Errors
Sally and Robert Sugarman Award for a Premiere of a Play
Flight of the Monarch, by Jim Frangione
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play
Bella Merlin, A Body of Water
Outstanding Production of a Play
Flight of the Monarch by Jim Frangione, directed by Judy Braha and produced in association with Great Barrington Public Theater
and
The Islanders by Carey Crim, directed by Regge Life
The 2024 Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Awards will be presented at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 11 in the Zion Lutheran Church Community Room, on First Street in Pittsfield, Mass. Westfield Community Programming will livestream the awards ceremony, and Mark G. Auerbach will do a live pre-show at 6 p.m., from the awards. It will be broadcast on westfieldtv.org and WSKB Community Radio.
For more information, visit berkshirecritics.org or shakespeare.org.
About the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association
The BTCA was founded in August 2016 by theater critic Larry Murray of berkshire onstage.com. The organization was formally incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization on April 24, 2017. The purpose of the BTCA and the Berkshire Theatre Awards is to promote and celebrate the quality and diversity of theater in the region.
About Shakespeare & Company
Shakespeare & Company was founded in 1978 by Tina Packer. Located in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Company offers performance, education, and actor-training opportunities year-round, and attracts more than 40,000 patrons annually with a core of more than 150 artists.
