Sensory-friendly performances are adapted to create a more welcoming theater experience for individuals with sensory sensitivities, including people are neurodivergent and first-time theatergoers. These performances may include reduced lighting and sound, pre-show guides, and a relaxed atmosphere where movement and noise are welcome. These shows are open to all patrons.
Shakespeare & Company invites families, first-time theatergoers, and Shakespeare devotees alike to celebrate the playwright's 462nd birthday with a full slate of storytelling, community, and festivities at its campus. Festivities include three open-captioned performances featuring “supertitles” projected above the stage; a relaxed performance with reduced stimuli and more flexible house rules; two free workshops for participants […]
Arts and Culture, Belong Berkshires, Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare & Company presents an open-captioned performance of Hamlet, featuring the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare. Open captioning features a large projection screen above the stage that displays the text the actors are reciting via supertitles. Those shows are open to all and accessible to Deaf or hard-of-hearing audience members.
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare & Company invites families, first-time theatergoers, and Shakespeare devotees alike to celebrate the playwright's 462nd birthday with a full slate of storytelling, community, and festivities at its campus. Festivities include three open-captioned performances featuring “supertitles” projected above the stage; a relaxed performance with reduced stimuli and more flexible house rules; two free workshops for participants […]
Arts and Culture, Belong Berkshires, Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare & Company presents an open-captioned performance of Hamlet, featuring the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare. Open captioning features a large projection screen above the stage that displays the text the actors are reciting via supertitles. Those shows are open to all and accessible to Deaf or hard-of-hearing audience members.
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare & Company invites families, first-time theatergoers, and Shakespeare devotees alike to celebrate the playwright's 462nd birthday with a full slate of storytelling, community, and festivities at its campus. Festivities include three open-captioned performances featuring “supertitles” projected above the stage; a relaxed performance with reduced stimuli and more flexible house rules; two free workshops for participants […]
Arts and Culture, Belong Berkshires, Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare & Company presents an open-captioned performance of Hamlet, featuring the Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare. Open captioning features a large projection screen above the stage that displays the text the actors are reciting via supertitles. Those shows are open to all and accessible to Deaf or hard-of-hearing audience members.
Arts and Culture, Diversity and Inclusion, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Literary lovers are invited to raise a teacup to Jane Austen on Sunday, Dec. 14 to celebrate her 250th birthday at Shakespeare & Company. Austen & Afternoon Tea includes an 11:30 a.m. talk at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre about the author and Sense & Sensibility in particular – a nod to Shakespeare & Company’s lively, winter reading […]
Literature, Lectures, and Talks, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Our popular Winter Show returns this year with Sense and Sensibility: a fast-paced, staged reading that brings the wit and romance of Jane Austen’s classic tale to life. Sense and Sensibility follows the fortunes, and misfortunes, of the Dashwood sisters — sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne — after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute […]
Performing Arts & Entertainment
Our family-friendly Winter Show returns this year with Sense and Sensibility: a fast-paced, staged reading wherein the wit and romance of Jane Austen’s classic tale come to life. Sense and Sensibility follows the fortunes, and misfortunes, of the Dashwood sisters — sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne — after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute […]
Arts and Culture, Family Friendly, Performing Arts & Entertainment