Alexander Sovronsky makes his Shakespeare & Company debut as Dumaine Soldat and a musician (and assistant music director) in All’s Well That Ends Well this summer. He’ll be heading out on the road this fall as Rosencrantz/Fortinbras in Shakespeare & Company’s National Tour of Hamlet.
1. What was your first experience with Shakespeare & Company?
In 2003, I was a sophomore double major at SUNY Geneseo studying theatre and violin performance. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life yet but I knew that before I decided, I wanted to get more training in classical theatre. I wanted to study Shakespeare and there wasn’t much of a classical program at Geneseo. I was hungry for it so I decided to spend my summer at the Summer Training Institute at Shakespeare & Company. The production of King Lear that I saw here in 2003, directed by Tina Packer, changed my life. I had no idea that I could feel that connected to a classical play. I laughed, I cried, I was entertained and I was transfixed. I snuck out of my room in Larry Hall nightly to catch the final hour or so of almost every performance of King Lear that summer. The following season, I returned to Lenox as a participant in the Month-Long Intensive. I made sure to keep in touch with Tina, Dennis [Krausnick, Director of Training] and Dave [Demke, Associate Director of Training]. Continue reading ’7 Questions with Alexander Sovronsky’
Kristin Villanueva steps onto the Shakespeare & Company stage for the first time this summer as Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well (Buy tickets now). Kristin was born and raised in the Philippines and has worked in New York and as far away as the Czech Republic. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase.
1. How did you come to be with Shakespeare & Company? What did you come in from?
I first heard about the company from my voice teacher of three years, Craig Bacon. Then, last March, I went to their open call [audition] in New York. Continue reading ’7 Questions With Kristin Villanueva’
August Play Days are here, and time to make hey nonny, nonny while the sun shines! Now’s the time to enjoy all the fun, enrichment and discovery that Shakespeare & Company offers at the height of summer. And this year we’re making a special effort to help you save every way we can.
Learn all the details right here about discounts and packages. And don’t forget about all the special events: Dennis Krausnick’s The Lear Project, The Actors Rehearse the Story of Charlotte Salomon, Riotous Youth and Young Company performances, plus Café & Croissant performances of The Ladies Man one morning each weekend.
So take a ‘Daycation’ with your family or a few friends, pack a picnic, or let us prepare one for you, and enjoy top-tier theatre at a price that will keep you grinning for the rest of the year! Choose your discount below and plan your August Play Day now. Your seat is waiting for you!
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Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal reviewed Othello, All’s Well That Ends Well, and The Ladies Man in a triad of acclaim. About Othello he said
Not all directors are alert to the comic aspect of Shakespeare’s tragedies, though, which is one of the many reasons why I was so impressed by Shakespeare & Company’s first attempt at Othello…this Othello is lean, clean, detailed but unfussy and fast on its feet.
And about The Ladies Man
Ms. Aspenlieder is one of the funniest actresses on the East Coast, and I can say no better of her performance as Mme. Suzanne Aubin, a loosely married lady with a widely roving eye…I can’t recall the last time I laughed so hard as I did at the look of glee that lit up her improbably mobile features when she warned the hapless Mr. Croy that ‘I zink my hass-boont sus-pecttts!‘
Read the full review at the Wall Street Journal online.
Tina Packer directs All’s Well That Ends Well, with original music by Bill Barclay. The Boston Globe called it a “lively, spirited prodcution” and the Phoenix declared it “vigorous, ultimately magical…Packer does not do things by halves.” Buy tickets now.
Check out the video preview of the show, which features Kristin Villanueva as Helena and Kevin O’Donnell as Parolles (the Wall Street Journal declared: “Kristin Villanueva is fizzingly alive and responsive as Helena — she has the eye-catching energy of a star in the making — and Kevin O’Donnell is just as fine in a very different way as Parolles, the idiotic would-be fop who meets with a painfully shaming fate.”)
In his eighth season at Shakespeare & Company, Timothy Douglas, a prolific director, steps back onto the stage (after directing Blue/Orange last summer) to play the King of France in All’s Well That Ends Well (Buy tickets now). Tim will also teach voice in the Shakespeare & Young Company summer session.
1. How did you come to be with Shakespeare & Company?
I first heard about the Company through my voice teachers, Zoe Alexander and Virginia Ness, when I was training as an actor at Yale Drama School. My first audition out of grad school was for Tina Packer’s 1986 production of Antony and Cleopatra. I was cast as the Soothsayer and the Clown (who brings the snake).
Continue reading ’7 Questions with Timothy Douglas’
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.
