More Raves for Shakespeare & Company

“No summer drama festival in America is more consistently satisfying than Shakespeare & Company, and ‘Twelfth Night’ is a prime example of what makes it so good.”

So says Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal in his review of Twelfth Night published this weekend. Additionally, he says:

No tricky directorial concepts are sprayed over the text—Mr. Croy is content to let Shakespeare be Shakespeare—and the actors respond by giving of their best, with results that are not merely funny but also emotionally true. Ms. Janson [as Viola], for instance, is at once heartfelt and touchingly clueless, an innocent flung willy-nilly into the midst of roiling comic chaos.

Read the full review at WSJ.com. But we’ve got more to share! Following the magnificent review in last week’s Berkshire Eagle, the Albany Times Union followed suit:

“the best thing worth seeing in the Berkshires yet this season…Randolph’s cast is beyond impressive. They inhabit this play, making the bare Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre come alive.“

Read the full review at the Albany Times Union website. We hope you’ll join us this August as Shakespeare & Company rounds out its summer season—everything wraps up September 7 with the Studio Festival of Plays!