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Shakespeare & Company

Theater Review: “The Children” — Scientists Under Pressure

The production strikes a fine balance between comedy and seriousness, public and private concerns, bringing a complex and compelling play to vibrant life.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Helen Epstein, Jonathan Epstein, Shakespeare & Company, The Children

Theater Review: “The Waverly Gallery” — A Powerful Look into a Descent into Dementia

A splendid production of an impressive early effort from the talented writer Kenneth Lonergan.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Kenneth Lonergan, Shakespeare & Company, The Waverly Gallery, Tina Packer

Theater Review: “Naked” and “Hir” — Identity Meltdown

Taylor Mac and Pirandello share the same goal: reveal the deadening vacuity at the heart of bourgeois society and the male ego.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Eric Hill, HIR, Luigi Pirandello, Naked, Nicholas Wright, Shakespeare & Company, Taylor Mac

Theater Review: “Mothers and Sons” — An Elegant, Affecting Production

Mothers and Sons is one of veteran playwright Terrence NcNally’s finest works.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Annette Miller, Bill Moots, Culture Vulture, Mothers and Sons, Shakespeare & Company, Terrence McNally

Theater Review: “We The People,” “The Member of the Wedding,” and “Creditors”

Three theaters in the Berkshires offer differing views of the past.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: August Strindberg, Creditors, Double Edge Theatre Company, Jonathan Epstein, Shakespeare & Company, Stacy Klein, The Member of the Wedding, We the People, Williamstown Theater Festival

Theater Review: “Creditors” — A Memorable Staging of a Classic

August Strindberg’s Creditors turns out to be a play that speaks chillingly to our time.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: August Strindberg, Creditors, Culture Vulture, Jonathan Epstein, Shakespeare & Company

Theater Review: “Morning After Grace” — A Cause for Celebration

It is heart-warming that, in these “worst of times,” playwrights like Carey Crim are working quietly to give us a look at new beginnings with humor and tenderness and hope.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Carey Crim, Morning After Grace, Regge Life, Shakespeare & Company

Theater Review: Shakespeare & Co’s “The Wharton Comedies” — Polished Storytelling

Veteran Shakespeare & Company members Corinna May, Diane Prusha, and David Joseph contribute satisfyingly polished performances.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: culture culture, Dennis Krausnick, Edith Wharton, Normi Noel, Shakespeare & Company, The Wharton Comedies

Theater Review: At Shakespeare & Company — Tina Packer’s Masterful “Merchant of Venice”

Shakespeare & Company’s staging of Merchant of Venice is the strongest this critic has ever seen or could hope to.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Jonathan Epstein, Shakespeare & Company, The Merchant of Venice, Tina Packer

Fuse Theater Review: “The How and the Why” — The Science of Being Human

It is worth your time watching Shakespeare & Company’s two fine actresses come to an understanding that is cathartic and real.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: evolution, feminism, Sarah Treem, Shakespeare & Company, The How and The Why

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