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“Santaland” Star Peter Davenport delivers “a bravura performance”

Published on December 13, 2010 in 2010-2011 Season and The Santaland Diaries. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

santalandsco10kspra_254-sized_ The Santaland Diaries‘ delightful little elf Crumpet is making spirits bright and earning rave reviews all the way. Two more cropped up this weekend:

The Albany Times-Union calls it “a beautifully staged, terrifically acted piece of holiday entertainment that’s familiar and still fresh,” praising for delivering “a bravura performance”.

Berkshire Living adds, “Davenport is wonderful…a skilled storyteller. Davenport doesn’t give us a squeaky-voiced, chipper ‘elf’ but a very real man at a difficult time in his life…in a way that is funny, sharp, certainly sarcastic, but without bitterness.”

The Santaland Diaries plays just ten more performances in the intimate Bernstein Theatre, so get your tickets now before Crumpet heads back to the North Pole for good!

“Just the thing to brighten the holiday season”

Published on December 17, 2009 in 2009-2010 Season, Cindy Bella and Reviews. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

cindybella_easp_117-sized_ 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

Reviews are in: “Hound” is a “howling success”!

Published on September 30, 2009 in Reviews and The Hound of the Baskervilles. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

houndsco09kspra_128-sized Our fall production The Hound of the Baskervilles opened this weekend with enthusiastic—and full—houses! The reviews so far have been similarly exciting:

“If your idea of fun is two hours of laugh upon laugh, you’re guaranteed a good time.”
—Boston Globe

“Laugh-out-loud funny all the way though. Amazingly entertaining.”
—Berkshire Living

“Part Monty Python, partly Marx Brothers, and totally screwy. This is a show for all ages, and not to be missed. Shakespeare & Company still makes theatre more than fun, they make it downright hilarious. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the funniest Sherlock Holmes mystery that you will ever see.”
—Berkshire Fine Arts

Buy tickets now! The Hound of the Baskervilles plays through November 8. Click here to see even more production photos.

Othello “even better now”

Published on July 23, 2009 in 2009-2010 Season, Othello (2009) and Reviews. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Othello, Shakespeare & Company’s critically-acclaimed hit of last summer has received great praise for its second run in Founders’ Theatre. Berkshire Living calls it “an extraordinary production, not to be missed,” and goes on to say “I saw this Othello last summer and thought it was excellent; I think it’s even better now.”

praises John Douglas Thompson (who won the OBIE Award for his performance of the role at Theatre For A New Audience this Spring): he “takes command of the scenes both physically and vocally. His sense of honor in winning the hand of Desdemona…his early disbelief of her infidelity…and his eventual loss of reason…this is a powerful performance.

Check out the photos of the production, including new cast members Duane Allen Robinson as Cassio, Caley Milliken as Bianca, Ken Cheeseman as Brabantio and Robert Biggs as Lodovico).