In December we announced our Founders’ Theatre shows for Summer 2010. Now we are proud to announce the rest of our Summer 2010 Season, titled “Greet the Glorious Summer!” A brief note from Artistic Director Tony Simotes:
It is with great humility as well as unbridled excitement that I launch my first season as Shakespeare & Company’s Artistic Director, taking over the reins from the indomitable Tina Packer. She began her mission 33 years ago, along with a merry band of theatrical revolutionaries that I was very pleased to be a part of. Our quest has been to bring the transformative power of theatre alive for our audiences through Shakespeare’s plays as well as ground-breaking new works. My mission is to build upon this priceless legacy while helping to bring us to exciting new places.
Read the rest of Tony’s Welcome Letter here, or in our 2010 Summer Season brochure—which is on its way to your mailbox now. (Or if you just can’t wait, click here to check it out online).
Check out the full Summer 2010 Season after the jump! Continue reading ‘Greet the Glorious Summer! (Full Summer Season Announced)’
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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In this article from the Albany Times-Union, Twelfth Night director Jonathan Croy speaks about his time at Shakespeare & Company and the challenges and delights of directing comedy.
“It’s an astonishing work. It sounds like such hyperbole but I honestly believe this is the greatest comedy ever written. It has the broadest comic vocabulary of any show that I’ve ever come across. There’s satire, there’s parody, there’s wit and there’s good old fashioned silliness.”
Read the complete article here. Click here to learn more and buy tickets to Twelfth Night.
Shakespeare’s tipsy-turvy comedy of misrule, madness and gender-bending comic fantasy is now playing in the Founders’ Theatre. Twelfth Night, or What You Will is directed by Jonathan Croy, with lighting design by Les Dickert, costumes by Govane Lohbauer and scenery by Jonathan Croy. Featuring your favorite actors from Hamlet and Othello and more.
Did you know that with our new Groundlings Tickets, you can get front-row seats to any Founders’ Theatre performance this summer for just $15? No restrictions—you can even buy ahead of time. Learn more »
Check out the photos below, and buy tickets now.
Check out these clips from The Ladies Man, which opened last weekend in Founders’ Theatre. Click here to buy tickets now.
The Ladies Man is written by Charles Morey and directed by Kevin Coleman, with costumes by Govane Lohbauer, lighting design by Les Dickert, set design by Carl Sprague, and sound design by Michael Pfeiffer. The production stage manager is Hope Rose Kelly.
The Ladies Man has been in previews all week. The 2008-2009 performance season will officially begin with this Saturday night’s opening performance! Production photos (by Kevin Sprague at Studio Two) are available below.
A true French farce about a suave doctor whose young wife and fire-breathing mother-in-law suspect of infidelity, The Ladies Man features razor-fine, saucy language and whip-smart dialogue that make this comedy zing. Written by Charles Morey from Georges Feydeau’s Tailleur Pour Dames, and directed by Shakespeare & Company’s director of education Kevin Coleman. (Check out the video interview with Kevin Coleman.)
The Ladies Man plays at Founders’ Theatre through August 31. Click here to buy tickets.
The first show of our longest-ever season begins previews this Friday. The Ladies Man, a farce adapted from the works of Georges Feydeau by Charles Morey, is directed by Kevin Coleman (Shakespeare & Company’s Director of Education).
We interviewed Kevin (and peeked in on a rehearsal) to find out what makes farces work, why they’re so funny, and what kind of hi-jinx audiences can expect from The Ladies Man. (Video features actors Jonathan Croy, Julie Webster and Annette Miller in rehearsal.)
The Ladies Man begins previews this Friday, May 23rd. Buy tickets here.
