Shakespeare performance, training and education in Lenox, MA
Albany’s Capital News 9 reported recently on Shakespeare & Company’s record-breaking attendance figures. So far this season, 49,021 tickets have been issued (with additional ticket sales for Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) still to come), compared to 47,195 throughout all of the 2008-2009 season.
Check out the video at the Capital News 9 website to learn about what this means for Shakespeare & Company and the Town of Lenox.
STAA president Philp Sneed (Colorado Shakespeare Festival) and Tina Packer (Shakespeare & Company). Photo: Danny Kurtz.
Shakespeare & Company this week hosted the annual conference of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America. Comprised of over 60 Shakespearean theatres across the US, Canada and even the UK and Mexico, STAA provides a forum for artistic and managerial leadership to discuss ideas and share methods of work, resources and information.
This year’s conference was attended by over 150 artists and managers and was hosted in Shakespeare & Company’s new Production and Performing Arts Center and the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It was a tremendous honor for Shakespeare & Company to host so many leaders in the field at our home.
WAMC (listen), Capital News 9 (watch the video) and the Berkshire Eagle all visited us during the conference. Check out their stories at their websites. Listen to the WAMC story below.
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Capital News 9′s Vince Gallagher visited Shakespeare & Company yesterday to meet Elizabeth Aspenlieder and find out a little bit about performing Bad Dates.
Check out the story at the Capital News 9 website. (Don’t miss the video!)
Join us this weekend for an outrageous performance of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night presented by the Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company.
The Conservatory program is a full-semester, in-depth training course for classical actors. Their training in the full scope of disciplines—voice, text, movement, clown, fight dance—culminates in this production.
Yesterday, Capital News 9 Albany ran a story about the Conservatory and interviewed several of the actors and associate director of training Dave Demke. You can read the story at their website (watch the video).
The talented cast of Twelfth Night features Robyn Arrington, Vanessa Bellew, Emily Rose Ehlinger, Autumn Elise Henry, Emily Karol, Andy Markert, Sophie Netanel, Michael Judson Pace, Erin Elizabeth Peck, Danielle Rose Valley and Angela Sommerfeld. It is directed by faculty member Marc Scipione.
The show runs tomorrow and Saturday, December 12 & 13 at 7pm in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Get tickets now!
Ryan Burgess of Capital News 9 visited Shakespeare & Company for a piece about our Capital Campaign, which was recently expanded from $7.5 million to $10 million. Burgess interviewed Marketing & Press Associate Jeremy Goodwin, actor Elizabeth Aspenlieder and stopped in on a rehearsal of Othello.
Check out the story at the Capital News 9 website, or watch the video.
Shakespeare and Company’s one-of-a-kind Shakespeare in the Courts program was recently featured on Capital News 9. The program, now in its eighth year, is a collaboration with the Berkshire Juvenile Court. During the project, adjudicated juvenile offenders explore Shakespeare’s text and prepare their own performance piece as part of the terms of their probation.
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