Shakespeare & Company proudly presents three exciting productions—Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, and the world premiere of Joan Ackermann’s The Taster—to light up Founders’ Tenth Anniversary Season, and to celebrate Shakespeare & Company’s 33rd year of extraordinary theatre.
Also in 2010, Lunchbox Shakespeare returns to the boards with a lively production of The Comedy of Errors, presented by S&Co.’s lauded professional actor training program and its youthful and exuberant students.
In celebration of our 33rd Season, patrons can see all three Founders’ shows for just $33 each. That’s Richard III, The Winter’s Tale and The Taster for just $99. The 3 @ $33 Package makes a great gift idea year long. Expires April 23—click here to buy now!
Stay tuned to Shakespeare.org this January when we’ll announce our full slate of shows for the 2010-11 Season, including Summer, Fall and Winter 2011!
Continue reading ‘Announcing our 2010 Founders’ Season!’
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Shakespeare & Company’s first-ever Holiday production, Cindy Bella (or The Glass Slipper) plays its second and final weekend—the show closes Sunday after just eleven performances. Written by Irina Brook and Anna Brownsted and directed by Brook, the show’s modern take on the classic Cinderella story has been welcomed by the critics:
“a silly bit of Holiday wackiness…Take the kids.”
—Berkshire Fine Arts
“an enjoyable evening of silliness and schtick, complete with a magical, fairy-tale happy ending”
—Berkshire Living
“a lot of fun, just the thing to brighten the holiday season”
—Advocate Weekly
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Shakespeare & Company proudly presents Cindy Bella (or the Glass Slipper), a brand-new take on Rossini’s classic Cinderella written by Irina Brook and Anna Brownsted and directed by Brook. The World Premiere production opened Friday in Founders’ Theatre—check out the photos!
There are so many ways to snag discounted tickets to this family friendly show. All our discounts for Berkshire residents, teachers, active duty military personnel, Senior Citizens, and students still apply.
Plus, our Family Thursdays discount is back! On December 17, tickets for families or groups of four to six people are $15 each and tickets for families or groups of seven to ten people are $10 each. Buy tickets now!
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Shakespeare & Company needs your votes! It’s quick and easy to vote for us in these two contests. With your help we can win much-needed funds to help us sustain our world-renowned Performance, Training and Education programs.
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We can win $25,000 in the first round through this Facebook promotion—voting ends on December 11! Click the image below to vote (every Facebook user gets 20 votes to spread around!):
Berkshire Bank: Join the Excitement
The non-profit organization with the most votes by January 31, 2010 will win $5,000 from Berkshire Bank. Anyone—anywhere—can vote (one vote per person, must be 18 years or older). Simply visit this page and enter this info:
Name of Organization: Shakespeare & Company
Address: 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA 01240
Vote now at Berkshire Bank!
Once you’ve cast your votes, share the message to all your friends and ask them to vote for Shakespeare & Company, too!
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The final Common Class of the Fall Festival—the Performance Common Class—is the biggest acting class you’ll ever witness. Take a look (this year’s Festival comes to Founders’ Theatre November 19-22):
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Just two weeks remain to catch the runaway hit of the Berkshires’ Fall season: The Hound of the Baskervilles. Written by Steven Canny and John Nicholson and directed by Artistic Director Tony Simotes, this madcap adaptation features Company favorites Jonathan Croy, Josh Aaron McCabe and Ryan Winkles.
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By Tony Simotes
Printed in the Berkshire Eagle, Wednesday, Oct. 28, Page A5
What a ride.
I’m one of that plucky gang who came up to the Berkshires and founded Shakespeare & Company back in 1978, and I’ve been back as an artist and teacher almost every year since. By any measure, I arrived this summer as Shakespeare & Company’s second-ever artistic director, taking over the reigns from founding Artistic Director Tina Packer, right in the thick of things with our season at full force.
I came back at a key moment in our history, when a fresh approach — informed always by the hard-earned wisdom of the past — is absolutely necessary. Change is hard, but it’s also necessary. And it’s an opportunity as well.
Many media outlets have reported on the bad news we’re currently confronting. They’ve done so responsibly and fairly, given some of the stark numbers floating around in a financial report prepared by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, in response to the request we made to the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
The big picture presented by this report is indeed correct: We need to re-organize ourselves to find a better way to keep doing what we’re doing on our Kemble Street property. The accompanying part of this, one we’re not so sure has made it into the zeitgeist thus far, is that we’re already taking action, and are deep into the needed process of re-organization. Continue reading ‘Shakespeare & Company here for the long haul’
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