“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
“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.
The New York Times‘ Ben Brantley visited Shakespeare & Company this week to weigh in on Twelfth Night and The Dreamer Examines His Pillow. What follows are just a couple of the wonderful things he had to say:
“Even theatergoers who caught the Public Theater’s star-powered “Twelfth Night” in Central Park this summer should consider revisiting the play in Lenox, though there’s not a celebrity in sight. Mr. Croy and company have ingeniously made this comedy of lost and found identities a vicarious voyage into the light…” Read the full review
And also, regarding John Douglas Thompson:
“Repertory is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? It allows an actor like Mr. Thompson the relief of moving from the in-the-moment passion of Othello to the recollected passion of Dreamer. And it allows theatergoers the treat of seeing an admirable performer confidently shift keys from blazing fury to quiet contemplation…” Read the full review
And did you see the fantastic New York Times article about Tina Packer earlier this month?
The reviews are in for J.T. Rogers’ White People, directed by Anna Brownsted, a “provocative and funny” (The Arts Fuse) account of three ordinary Americans as they deal their own prejudices and guilt, and the consequences of their actions. These three “absorbing, ultimately wrenching stories” (The Valley Advocate) are being told in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre through next Friday, September 4th only.
White People features Jason Asprey (also playing Hamlet), Michael Hammond (playing Iago in Othello) and Dana Harrison. Buy tickets now.
Check out our interview with the playwright J.T. Rogers right here:
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So says Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal in his review of Twelfth Night published this weekend. Additionally, he says:
No tricky directorial concepts are sprayed over the text—Mr. Croy is content to let Shakespeare be Shakespeare—and the actors respond by giving of their best, with results that are not merely funny but also emotionally true. Ms. Janson [as Viola], for instance, is at once heartfelt and touchingly clueless, an innocent flung willy-nilly into the midst of roiling comic chaos.
Read the full review at WSJ.com. But we’ve got more to share! Following the magnificent review in last week’s Berkshire Eagle, the Albany Times Union followed suit:
“the best thing worth seeing in the Berkshires yet this season…Randolph’s cast is beyond impressive. They inhabit this play, making the bare Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre come alive.“
Read the full review at the Albany Times Union website. We hope you’ll join us this August as Shakespeare & Company rounds out its summer season—everything wraps up September 7 with the Studio Festival of Plays!
They’ve located that power surge some of you may have felt over the weekend in Lenox. It came from Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre on Kemble Street where John Patrick Shanley’s “The Dreamer Examines His Pillow” opened Saturday night.
For 90 or so intermissionless minutes, Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre crackles with the pain and promise of love; life — intense, vibrant, gushing, knowing, unknowing.
Read the full review at the Berkshire Eagle online. Written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Company member Tod Randolph in her directorial debut, Dreamer plays through September 6 in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It features John Douglas Thompson, Miriam Hyman and Bowman Wright. Buy tickets 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.”
WAMC 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).
