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On top of all this, we’re very excited to announce that several well-known actors have volunteered to be part of our upcoming fundraising event, Bring Back the Movies, to be held at Saint James Place in Great Barrington at 5:30 p.m. on August 8. The event, a staged reading that will put a new spin on iconic movie moments, will feature an all-star cast of Karen Allen, Lauren Ambrose, Jayne Atkinson, Greg Boover, McConnia Chesser, Michel Gill, Melissa Leo, and David Rasche. Michelle Joyner is directing, and Gigi and Tom Teeley are performing the music.

General Admission tickets will be $50, and tickets for the reading, plus a post-show reception with drinks, bites, and an opportunity to meet the cast and see plans for the new Triplex, will be $150. All proceeds go toward renovating and reinvigorating the Triplex. Purchase your tickets for the event here.

Eternally fascinated by Lauren going off, acting her ass off in Servant or YJ? Then just going back to the Berkshires.

This is Wife behavior (Mr. Lauren Ambrose is on their board. Nice girl from Connecticut marries young*, has kids, stays married.

This is so severely Van-coded behavior.

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Young Shakespeare & Co actors bring "Hamlet" to vivid life outdoors at The Mount

Young Shakespeare & Co actors bring “Hamlet” to vivid life outdoors at The Mount

Luke Reed’s Hamlet takes his story directly to the audience for an intense live theatre experience. Only a young cast like this could bring out the essence of Hamlet so brilliantly Theatre Review by Gail M. Burns This production shows why I hate doing those crystal-ball style predictions at the start of the season, a task we critics are too often called upon to perform. Out in the daylight, pared…

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Fall Festival Of Shakespeare Finale Performances Run November 21 - 24

Fall Festival Of Shakespeare Finale Performances Run November 21 – 24

“I learned how to be my true self and feel so incredibly comfortable in my own skin,” said a senior from Chatham High School. “These four years have changed me more than I can explain.”

(Lenox, MA) – The annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare is back! Bringing hundreds of teenagers from ten area high schools to the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company. Beginning on November 21st, the…

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Fall Festival Of Shakespeare Final Performances Begin November 15th

Fall Festival Of Shakespeare Final Performances Begin November 15th

Shakespeare & Company Celebrates 30 Years of Festivals bringing Students Together

(Lenox, MA) – Celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year, the annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare will bring hundreds of teenagers from ten different high schools to the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company. Beginning on November 15th, the four-day festival marks the culmination of the nine-week program…

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Fall Festival Of Shakespeare Final Performances Begin November 16th

Fall Festival Of Shakespeare Final Performances Begin November 16th

(Lenox, MA) — Hundreds of teenagers from ten different high schools will take to the stage at Shakespeare & Company, beginning November 16th, for the 29th Fall Festival of Shakespeare.  An annual tradition, the Fall Festival is the culmination of the nationally recognized program that places Shakespeare & Company Education Artists in ten local and regional schools, where they lead students in a…

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“A funny, moving, altogether wonderful drama. . . A heartening reminder that a keen focus on life’s small moments can pay off in a big way onstage.” – The New York Times

(Lenox, MA) – Shakespeare & Company opens their 40th Anniversary Season with 4,000 Miles written by Amy Herzog, and directed by Nicole Ricciardi. This Pulitzer Prize finalist and Winner of the 2012 Obie Award for Best New Play explores growing up, growing old and the moments in between. The acclaimed comic drama runs at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre from May 25 to July 16, 2017.

After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother, Vera, in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 Miles looks at how two outsiders find their way in today’s world. The Associated Press said, “In 4000 Miles, a warm-hearted new play by Amy Herzog, both love and irritability are woven into an illumination of the healing process after the loss of a loved one. The sensitive play [is] filled with small, revelatory and often humorous moments between a grandmother and her grandson.”

“In Ms. Herzog’s play, Leo is miles from home, lost, avoiding the familiar,” says returning Shakespeare & Company Director Nicole Ricciardi. “Vera is just as aimless, shuffling into a life of meaningless small details. They are distant relatives, generationally divided. Both yearn for human connection and understanding. And yet…they struggle to communicate. They bicker. They joust. They leave things unsaid. And after weeks of close physical proximity, the dam breaks and everything begins to change.”

Annette Miller

Zoe Laiz

Emma Geer

Greg Boover

Riccardi’s production of 4000 Miles features award-winning actress Annette Miller and Company member Gregory Boover, along with Zoe Laiz and Shakespeare & Company newcomer Emma Geer. The creative team includes John McDermott (Set Design), James W. Bilnoski (Lighting Design), Stella Schwartz (Costume Design) and Amy Altadonna (Sound Design).

“Unlike many of the woman I have had the privileged to portray, Vera Joseph in 4000 Miles is not a larger than life woman,” says Miller. “She isn’t a woman who is driven to make her mark in the world, so to speak, but she is like all of those women we know who have lived very full lives, and who are dedicated to creating a more just society. Vera values love, wisdom, and humor – which are all part of the essential core of who she is – I can’t wait to enter that simple truth of her life.”

Tickets for 4000 Miles are available online at shakespeare.org, or by calling Shakespeare & Company’s box office  at (413) 637-3353. The Bernstein Theatre is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible. Shakespeare & Company is located at 70 Kemble Street in Lenox, Massachusetts. The performance is generously sponsored by Jerry and Honie Berko.

AT A GLANCE PRODUCTION: 4000 Miles PLAYWRIGHT: Amy Herzog DIRECTOR: Nicole Ricciardi SET DESIGNER: John McDermott LIGHTING DESIGNER: James W. Bilnoski COSTUME DESIGNER: Stella Schwartz SOUND DESIGNER: Amy Altadonna STAGE MANAGER: Fran Rubenstein*

CAST MEMBERS VERA JOSEPH: Annette Miller* LEO JOSEPH-CONNELL: Gregory Boover* BEC: Emma Geer                           AMANDA: Zoe Laiz                          

SCHEDULE: May: 25 – 7:30 PM – Preview 26 – 7:30 PM – Preview 27 – 7:30 PM – Preview 28 – 3:00 PM – Opening June: 2 – 7:30 PM 3 – 7:30 PM 9 – 7:30 PM 10  – 7:30 PM 11 – 3:00 PM 16 – 7:30 PM 17 – 7:30 PM 18 – 3:00 PM 23 – 7:30 PM 24 – 7:30 PM 25 – 3:00 PM 29 – 7:30 PM 30 – 7:30 PM July: 1 – 3:00 PM 2 – 3:00 PM 6 – 3:00 PM 8 – 3:00 PM 9 – 7:30 PM 14 – 7:30 PM 15 – 3:00 PM 16 – 3:00 PM – Closing

About Annette Miller (Vera) Twentieth season with S&Co. Bemedette in Sotto Voce (2016); Elliot Norton and Irne Award for best actress as Golda Meir (2003); Elliot Norton best actress nomination for Martha in Martha Mitchell Calling (2006). Florida Carbonell Award best actress nomination for Vi in August Osage County (2012). Now is Our Time – the Pleasures and Perils of our Third Chapter, (Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center). Favorite roles: Maria Callas, Master Class; Duchess, Richard III; Marjorie Taub, The Allergist’s Wife; Queen Elinor, King John; Maria, 12th Night; Ruth Steiner, Collected Stories (S&Co). Paula Strasberg, Nobody Dies on Friday; Lillian Hellman, Cake Walk (U/S Elaine Stritch); Arkadina, The Seagull (American Rep. Co). B’Way: The Odd Couple Female Version.

About Nicole Ricciardi: (Director) Fifth season with S&Co: Director of The Taming in 2016; The How and the Why in 2015; Cassandra Speaks in 2012, and Richard II in 2013 (Assistant Director). Nicole is a New York City-based director, actress, and instructor, who has directed, assisted, and/or developed work at Youngblood/Ensemble Studio Theatre, #serials at the Flea, Circle East Repertory, Two River Theater Company, Primary Stages, Bushwick Arts, the Nora Theater Company, Shadow Lawn Stage, Irish Repertory, New Century Theatre (Time Stands Still, July 2016), and with her own company, The Wild Court. She currently teaches for the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Nicole received her M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.

About Amy Herzog: (Playwright) First season with S&Co. Herzog’s plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theater Festival; Playwrights Horizons; Lilly Award), 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center; Obie Award for the Best New American Play, Pulitzer Prize Finalist), The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons), and Belleville (Yale Rep; New York Theatre Workshop; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist; Drama Desk Nomination). Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity, and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW and an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group at Ars Nova, and the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale.  MFA, Yale School of Drama.

About Shakespeare & Company Located in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Shakespeare & Company is one of the largest Shakespeare Festivals in the country. Founded in 1978, the organization attracts over 30,000 patrons annually. The Company is also home to Shakespeare & Company’s internationally renowned Center for Actor Training and nationally renowned and an award-winning Education Program. More information is available at www.shakespeare.org.

Shakespeare & Company Presents “4,000 Miles” by Amy Herzog “A funny, moving, altogether wonderful drama. . . A heartening reminder that a keen focus on life’s small moments can pay off in a big way onstage.”

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Young Shakespeare & Co actors bring "Hamlet" to vivid life outdoors at The Mount

Young Shakespeare & Co actors bring “Hamlet” to vivid life outdoors at The Mount

Luke Reed’s Hamlet takes his story directly to the audience for an intense live theatre experience. Only a young cast like this could bring out the essence of Hamlet so brilliantly Theatre Review by Gail M. Burns This production shows why I hate doing those crystal-ball style predictions at the start of the season, a task we critics are too often called upon to perform. Out in the daylight, pared…