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On Sunday, May 31 at 1 pm, Shakespeare & Company will hold a gathering to celebrate Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer’s remarkable life and lasting impact. This celebration of life will be open to the community, to allow everyone to remember a powerhouse on and off stage in the Berkshires and the world.
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Shakespeare & Company’s Gala 2026 will be held at its Lenox campus in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and begins at 4:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour, performance, and dinner and dancing under the stars in the Rose Meadow Tent. Proceeds benefit Shakespeare & Company‘s Center for Actor Training, Education Program, and Performances.
Join us for our traditional, Jane Austen-inspired Winter Show: a lively, costumed reading of Pride and Prejudice.
Following its successful debut in 2025, Shakespeare & Company welcomes back Celebrating Jewish Plays, an immersive theater experience featuring three plays presented over three evenings during the holiday weekend.
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Set over the course of a single late night in a small Hell’s Kitchen apartment, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune is a tender, funny, and deeply human play about two people standing at the edge of connection. Frankie, a guarded waitress, and Johnny, an earnest short-order cook, work together at a Manhattan diner. After their first date, they find themselves in bed—and talking through the night.
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The hit that had audiences on their feet returns—revved up and remixed. The Tina Packer Playhouse transforms once more into the Elephant Lounge for Shake It Up: The Remix, an exuberant mash-up of modern music and Shakespeare verse. Audiences are invited to clap, sing, stomp, and dance in the aisles as the players unleash a breathless, rocking revue.
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Circus & the Bard: The Next Chapter bounces back July 16–26! Shakespeare & Company and Spirit of the Circus reunite for a playful mash-up of jaw-dropping circus acts paired with Shakespeare’s beloved characters. When high-flying feats meet the Bard’s words, sparks fly, laughs abound, and something truly magical happens.
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Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most searching play—a gripping story of grief, conscience, and the cost of action. Haunted by his father’s ghost, a young prince must navigate a world of secrets, power, and betrayal, where nothing is as it appears. By turns thrilling, darkly funny, and deeply human, this August production brings Shakespeare’s language to life with clarity, physicality, and immediacy.
