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“Just the thing to brighten the holiday season”

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”!

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”

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).