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Shakespeare & Company actress Elizabeth Aspenlieder has won the Elliot Norton Award for “Outstanding Solo Performance” for her performance in Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates (directed by Adrianne Krstansky) at Shakespeare & Company and Merrimack Repertory Theatre this winter. The Elliot Norton Awards are the highest honor bestowed for theatre work in the Greater Boston area. (This year’s nominees and winners.)
“I wake up every day surprised and happy to be doing what I love doing, which is acting—but in close second is living here in the Berkshires and working with Shakespeare & Company—so I also feel incredibly lucky about where I’m doing what I love.” Aspenlieder says.
Elizabeth will be appearing as the Marquise de Merteuil in Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses this winter, directed by Tina Packer in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Continue reading ‘Elizabeth Aspenlieder wins the Elliot Norton Award’
This weekend the 16-to-20-year-old actors of our Shakespeare & Young Company program take the stage with four electrifying adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays.
Company actors and Education Artists Jonathan Croy and Michael F. Toomey (both seen in 2008′s The Ladies Man and Othello) lead two groups of a dozen or more young actors from various schools in Berkshire County and beyond in Shakespeare & Company’s unique and renowned training, culminating in this weekend’s public performances — which you are invited to see! (Check out the photos from last year’s spring Young Company performances.)
This year’s performances feature an added level of historical interest. “We’ve been talking for years about wanting to take Shakespeare’s plays and source material and put them together,” says Jonathan Croy. This year’s shows feature a blend of Shakespeare and texts from the original and secondary sources that formed the basis for much of Shakespeare’s work.
Saturday, May 9 @ 7pm
The Maid, based on the Joan of Arc story from Henry VI, Part 1 and historical documents and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, a distillation of Shakespeare’s comedy.
Sunday, May 10 @ 7pm
Pants, a compilation of cross-dressing scenes from Twelfth Night and As You Like It, and Troy, focused on Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida with other historical sources including text from Sophocles, Euripides, and the Illiad.
Tickets are $12/$8 students. All performances in Founders’ Theatre. Buy tickets now.
Boston-area friends of Shakespeare & Company will now get their chance to see Elizabeth Aspenlieder’s “bravura performance” as Haley Walker in Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates, playing at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre for three weeks, March 19-April 12.
Merrimack Repertory Theatre, “the best kept secret of the Merrimack Valley”, is just thirty minutes from Boston in the heart of historic downtown Lowell, MA.
Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare & Company’s 2009 educational tour, has begun its journey to schools and venues across New England (plus New York and New Jersey). The seven-member cast of education artists will perform the show over 70 times in over 60 communities, for over 200 schools. The cast includes Benjamin Brinton, Paul D’Agostino, Kaitlin Henderson, Alyssa Hughlett, Kelley Johnston, Sean Kazarian, and Daniel Kurtz. Check out the video preview, and mark your calendars for the Tour’s May 8 finale in Founders’ Theatre.
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Lifestyle store Homeward Bound will present the best of their new spring clothing from Chan Luu, Odd Molly, Elm & Kensie after the final performance of Bad Dates on March 8 at 2pm. The event is free to all, and includes champagne, cosmos, munchies served by Xicohtencatl plus great raffles and prizes. And don’t miss Elizabeth Aspenlieder, star of Bad Dates in her runway debut!
Get your tickets to Bad Dates and join us after the show!
Bad Dates is “A date night both funny and poignant.” (The Wall Street Journal). “…a bravura performance…vibrantly alive from the first pair of pumps Aspenlieder straps on.” (Albany Times-Union). “…a warm, inviting balm for these troubled days and chilly winter nights.” (The Berkshire Eagle). Check out the video below. Buy tickets.
