Shakespeare performance, training and education in Lenox, MA
Tonight, Joan Ackermann’s The Taster enters previews. This world premiere is directed by Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer and featuring OBIE Award winner Rocco Sisto and famed soprano Maureen O’Flynn (in roles written specially for them) alongside Tom O’Keefe and Robert Biggs.
Check out the photos from the production, and buy tickets now. Scenic design by Yoshi Tanokura, costume design by Govane Lohbauer, lighting design by Christopher Thielking. Photos by Kevin Sprague.
The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s magical story of love, forgiveness, and the ties that bind, now on stage in Founders’ Theatre in a production directed by Kevin G. Coleman and featuring Jonathan Esptein and Elizabeth Aspenlieder alongside seasoned Shakespeare & Company actors including Corinna May, Johnny Lee Davenport, Jason Asprey, Malcolm Ingram, Ryan Winkles, Josh Aaron McCabe and many more.
Check out the photos from the production, which takes us from the kingdom of Sicilia to Bohemia and spans sixteen years. Set design by Patrick Brennan, lighting design by Les Dickert, costumes by Kara D. Midlam.
“Sea Marks” is sea-swept tale of an unlikely romance springing at an unlikely moment. Directed by Daniela Varon and featuring Kristin Wold and Walton Wilson. Set & Costumes designed by Kiki Smith. Lighting design by Stephen Ball. Photos by Danny Kurtz.
The Comedy of Errors, one of Shakespeare’s earliest and most unbridled comedies, is on stage now in the Bernstein Theatre in a production directed by S&Co’s Director of Training Dennis Krausnick and Clare Reidy, featuring the Center for Actor Training’s Performance Interns.
This production is the latest edition of our “Lunchbox Shakespeare” matinee offerings, featuring a delicious and affordable boxed-lunch available before every performance. Check out the photos, and buy tickets now »
William Shakespeare’s Richard III is now playing at Founders’ Theatre. John Douglas Thompson plays the title role in the production, directed by Jonathan Croy and featuring costumes designed by Arthur Oliver, lighting by Les Dickert and a set by Patrick Brennan. Photos by Kevin Sprague.
Two of our favorite actors—John Douglas Thompson and Elizabeth Aspenlieder, both on stage in Founders’ Theatre this summer—were each the subject of their own delightful interview this week.
John Douglas Thompson, who plays the title role in Richard III, spoke with Berkshire On Stage about his history and his recent critical acclaim.
It is a given that he is an extremely intelligent man, very witty, and powerful. On that I am trying to layer those three psychological underpinnings to make him more real. I want to know why he does what he does, and it’s all there in the language, and I know I will find it.”
Actor and Communications Director Elizabeth Aspenlieder was the subject of a Q&A in the Albany Times Union, discussing her Canadian roots and role as an artist/manager at Shakespeare & Company. She’s currently in rehearsals for The Winter’s Tale, in which she plays Hermione, the good Queen of Sicilia.
Q: What does Shakespeare mean to you?
A: It means an opportunity to be alive, to say good things, to say bad things and to move people in a way I wouldn’t normally be able to do day to day; to push people to communicate and to speak, which is so important to me; to speak with conviction and passion and to not shy away from anything.”
