August 2019
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir John Falstaff vastly underestimates the Merry Wives in the town of Windsor as he hatches a frothy scheme to drain their bank accounts and drive their husbands insane with jealousy. Antics ensue as Falstaff (a favorite character of Queen Elizabeth herself!) overestimates his own ability to dupe good people and pull off his scheme of deceit. With The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy perfectly suited to our garden theatre setting, Shakespeare proves that the best human foibles are…
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir John Falstaff vastly underestimates the Merry Wives in the town of Windsor as he hatches a frothy scheme to drain their bank accounts and drive their husbands insane with jealousy. Antics ensue as Falstaff (a favorite character of Queen Elizabeth herself!) overestimates his own ability to dupe good people and pull off his scheme of deceit. With The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy perfectly suited to our garden theatre setting, Shakespeare proves that the best human foibles are…
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir John Falstaff vastly underestimates the Merry Wives in the town of Windsor as he hatches a frothy scheme to drain their bank accounts and drive their husbands insane with jealousy. Antics ensue as Falstaff (a favorite character of Queen Elizabeth herself!) overestimates his own ability to dupe good people and pull off his scheme of deceit. With The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy perfectly suited to our garden theatre setting, Shakespeare proves that the best human foibles are…
Find out more »The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir John Falstaff vastly underestimates the Merry Wives in the town of Windsor as he hatches a frothy scheme to drain their bank accounts and drive their husbands insane with jealousy. Antics ensue as Falstaff (a favorite character of Queen Elizabeth herself!) overestimates his own ability to dupe good people and pull off his scheme of deceit. With The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy perfectly suited to our garden theatre setting, Shakespeare proves that the best human foibles are…
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir John Falstaff vastly underestimates the Merry Wives in the town of Windsor as he hatches a frothy scheme to drain their bank accounts and drive their husbands insane with jealousy. Antics ensue as Falstaff (a favorite character of Queen Elizabeth herself!) overestimates his own ability to dupe good people and pull off his scheme of deceit. With The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy perfectly suited to our garden theatre setting, Shakespeare proves that the best human foibles are…
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »September 2019
Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir John Falstaff vastly underestimates the Merry Wives in the town of Windsor as he hatches a frothy scheme to drain their bank accounts and drive their husbands insane with jealousy. Antics ensue as Falstaff (a favorite character of Queen Elizabeth herself!) overestimates his own ability to dupe good people and pull off his scheme of deceit. With The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy perfectly suited to our garden theatre setting, Shakespeare proves that the best human foibles are…
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »Topdog/Underdog
Two brothers, Lincoln and Booth, locked in a battle of wits as quick as their game of Three Card Monte, struggle to come to terms with their identity and what history has handed them, even their names. With her trademark explosive language in this powerful Pulitzer Prize winning play, Suzan Lori-Parks explores the deepest of connections, and what it means to be a family of man. At Tina Packer Playhouse.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »October 2019
Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »Time Stands Still
There are exact times when the pursuit of what is important clashes with the consequences of one's choices. Sarah Goodwin, a photo journalist recovering from the blast of a road side bomb overseas, must decide between her life's work of revealing unsettling truths about the world, and domestic comfort. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Donald Margulies, here weaves a gripping story of the cost of staying true to one's path. At Elayne Bernstein Theatre.
Find out more »December 2019
Sense and Sensibility – A Costumed Reading
A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father's sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. Set in gossipy late 18th-century England, with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth, and bold theatricality. Sense and Sensibility examines our reactions, both reasonable and ridiculous, to societal pressures. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart? At Elayne…
Find out more »Sense and Sensibility – A Costumed Reading
A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father's sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. Set in gossipy late 18th-century England, with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth, and bold theatricality. Sense and Sensibility examines our reactions, both reasonable and ridiculous, to societal pressures. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart? At Elayne…
Find out more »Sense and Sensibility – A Costumed Reading
A playful new adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters—sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne—after their father's sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. Set in gossipy late 18th-century England, with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth, and bold theatricality. Sense and Sensibility examines our reactions, both reasonable and ridiculous, to societal pressures. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart? At Elayne…
Find out more »January 2020
Play Reading: The Norwegians
A strong, bitter comedy about women scorned in Minnesota and the really, really nice gangsters—Norwegian hit men—they hire to whack their ex-boyfriends. Olive is a transplant from Texas and Betty is a transplant from Kentucky, but neither of them was prepared for the Norwegian men they would fall in love with there: the practical, warm, thoughtful, destructive, evil, jilting kind. If you're a hit man in Minnesota, 83% of your clients want to take out their ex (oofda!). Betty has…
Find out more »Play Reading: The Price
Years after an angry breakup, Victor and Walter Franz are reunited by the death of their father. As they sort through his possessions in an old brownstone attic, the memories evoked by his belongings stir up old hostilities. The Price was nominated for two Tony Awards, including best play.
Find out more »Play Reading: Five Mile Lake
Jamie and Mary are suck in a small town with nothing to do. Jaime enjoys his slow life, soaking in the world around him as he fixes up his grandfather’s lake house, and cares for his ailing mother. He rounds out his days by working alongside the restless Mary in the local bakery. When Jaime’s brother and new girlfriend Peta show up unexpectedly to escape the city, the peaceful town is met with new energy; sending each of these young…
Find out more »Play Reading: When We Were Young and Unafraid
For years, Agnes has used her quiet bed and breakfast as a refuge for victims of domestic violence. Creating a place of escape and recovery brings her joy and she whole-heartily welcomes her latest runaway Mary Anne, that is until, Mary Anne starts to influence Agnes’s own college-bound daughter Penny. As Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions, and the dialog of feminist revolution is cracked open, and reveals truths all three women must reckon with. Set in the…
Find out more »Play Reading: Water by The Spoonful
Vibrant with empathy and humor, Water By the Spoonful unpacks community and connection. In a world that would rather communicate through screens, than face-to-face, our story is set in both Philadelphia and an online chat-room. The twenty something, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is searching for his new normal. While, at all hours and from all places, a forum in an online chat-room for recovering addicts is helmed by Odessa Ortiz who’s known online as Haikumom. Boundaries of family…
Find out more »February 2020
Shakespeare’s Valentine Surprise: Shakespeare in Space
Everyone knows that Shakespeare wrote some great classic plays, but did you know that the Bard was actually the original science fiction writer? Before George Lucas, before Isaac Asimov, before H.G. Wells, there was William! Take a sonic flight through time as we zip through some of your favorite sci-fi through the lens, the portal, of the earthling who inspired it all: love, intrigue, power, and space, all in the name of Valentine's Day fun! Hosted by comedian Kevin Bartini,…
Find out more »Shakespeare’s Valentine Surprise: Shakespeare in Space
Everyone knows that Shakespeare wrote some great classic plays, but did you know that the Bard was actually the original science fiction writer? Before George Lucas, before Isaac Asimov, before H.G. Wells, there was William! Take a sonic flight through time as we zip through some of your favorite sci-fi through the lens, the portal, of the earthling who inspired it all: love, intrigue, power, and space, all in the name of Valentine's Day fun! Hosted by comedian Kevin Bartini,…
Find out more »May 2020
Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence Stream
Join author Tina Packer and Education Director Kevin G. Coleman as they discuss the new book, Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence on Facebook live!
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »June 2020
TINA TALKS – Shakespeare’s Plays: The Philosophy
Join Shakespeare & Company's Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer for a very special webinar series, TINA TALKS, exploring Shakespeare's plays from different angles — revealing the underlying messages, major questions that interested Shakespeare, and how his ability as a dramatist allowed him to express them in action as well as words. Each weeks Tina will look at Shakespeare's plays through a different lens: Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Physical, Poetical, and Personal. The first webinar looks at the philosophical. These webinars are…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »Shakespeare from the Whole Self: The Creative Voice (Online Class)
Join us for six transformative weeks of awareness and creative voice work. Experience the synergy of three potent methods offered together: Shakespeare & Company’s text work, Linklater Voice and The Feldenkrais Method. Discover how the liberating power of awareness can awaken your confidence, and ignite your creativity as an actor. In a supportive and playful environment, explore your voice as an expression of self and your connection to character. This online workshop is designed to serve anyone interested in exploring…
Find out more »August 2020
Pop Up Drive In – Don’t Be Nice
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Don't Be Nice. A team of young New York City Slam Poets finds its voice as it competes for the National Championship during the summer of 2016. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Shakespeare Behind Bars
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Shakespeare Behind Bars. Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – The Hoy Boys
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company present The Hoy Boys. Twin photojournalists lead us back to a pre-digital era, when Americans read newspapers and facts mattered. Gates open at 7:30PM with show time at 8:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In: Olympia
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company present Olympia. An uncompromising truth-seeking rebel, Olympia Dukakis refuses to yield to social norms while pushing forward her own subversive narrative. Gates open at 7:30PM with show time at 8:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – The Prison Within
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents The Prison Within. Prisoners incarcerated for murder inside San Quentin Prison transcend the punitive prison system to unearth the root cause of their violence by working with victims of violent crime Gates open at 7:30PM with show time at 8:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Pick of the Litter
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Pick of the Litter. Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they're born and begin their quest to become Guide Dogs for the Blind, the ultimate canine career. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Orchestrating Change
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Orchestrating Change. A documentary that tells the inspiring story of Me2/Orchestra, the only orchestra in the world created by and for people living with mental illness and those who support them. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Radium Girls
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Radium Girls. In the 1920s a group of factory workers advocate for safer work conditions after some of their colleagues become ill from radium exposure. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »State vs. Natasha Banina
We are thrilled to join the Cherry Orchard Festival in co-presenting the Arlekin Players Theatre’s State vs. Natasha Banina. Performed live by Darya Denisova, State vs. Natasha Banina unfolds as a Russian teenager tells the story of her life in a small-town orphanage, and how her desire to be free led to a crime of passion. She makes unique appeals to the audience/jury, letting them into her world where she dreams of love, family, and her future. Ultimately, you -…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Premature
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Premature. Seventeen year old Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious Isaiah in her path towards self-discovery. Her entire world is turned upside down as she travails on the rigorous terrain of young love on the summer before she leaves for college. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Field of Dreams
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Field of Dreams. An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »September 2020
Pop Up Drive In – Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President showcasing the role music played in propelling Jimmy Carter from Georgia to the White House, and how his love for music gave him an unexpected edge in the presidential race. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Women in Blue
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Women in Blur follows Minneapolis’ first female police chief Janeé Harteau, as she works to reform the Minneapolis Police Department by getting rid of bad cops, retraining the rest, diversifying the ranks and promoting women-who statistically use less force than their male counterparts-into every rank of leadership. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President showcasing the role music played in propelling Jimmy Carter from Georgia to the White House, and how his love for music gave him an unexpected edge in the presidential race. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Playing with Fire
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Playing with Fire. Grammy-winner Jeannette Sorrell opens the film with a rehearsal of Telemann’s jolly “Don Quixote Suite,” highlighting her search for musical portrayals in the music in front of her.After quick flashes of her demanding yet collaborative rehearsal technique we learn of Sorrell’s childhood passion for music and her delight when her parents could finally afford an old upright piano. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Echo in the Canyon
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Echo in the Canyon celebrating the popular music that came out of L.A.'s Laurel Canyon neighborhood in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas and the Papas cemented the California Sound. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the…
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975. Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »Pop Up Drive In – Award Winning Animated Short Collection III.
The Berkshire International Film Festival and Shakespeare and Company presents Award Winning Animated Short Collection III. Gates open at 7:30PM. Patrons are required to stay in their cars and cars will be parked 10 feet apart. Operations of the event will strictly follow all the CDC guidelines. Children under 10 free.
Find out more »October 2020
Virtual: Martha Mitchell Calling
Portrayed with humor, candor, and disarming pathos, this riveting work re-examines the life and legacy of Martha Mitchell. Outrageous, flamboyant, courageous, and the life of the party, she ultimately played the pivotal role in the downfall of Nixon’s Presidency.
Find out more »Virtual: Martha Mitchell Calling
Portrayed with humor, candor, and disarming pathos, this riveting work re-examines the life and legacy of Martha Mitchell. Outrageous, flamboyant, courageous, and the life of the party, she ultimately played the pivotal role in the downfall of Nixon’s Presidency.
Find out more »Virtual: Martha Mitchell Calling
Portrayed with humor, candor, and disarming pathos, this riveting work re-examines the life and legacy of Martha Mitchell. Outrageous, flamboyant, courageous, and the life of the party, she ultimately played the pivotal role in the downfall of Nixon’s Presidency.
Find out more »I Have Has A Most Rare Vision
Something wicked this way comes. Enjoy Halloween outdoors as our Education Artists perform Shakespeare’s scenes of ghosts and the supernatural! Play selections include Macbeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Richard III.
Find out more »Virtual: Martha Mitchell Calling
Portrayed with humor, candor, and disarming pathos, this riveting work re-examines the life and legacy of Martha Mitchell. Outrageous, flamboyant, courageous, and the life of the party, she ultimately played the pivotal role in the downfall of Nixon’s Presidency.
Find out more »November 2020
Virtual: Martha Mitchell Calling
Portrayed with humor, candor, and disarming pathos, this riveting work re-examines the life and legacy of Martha Mitchell. Outrageous, flamboyant, courageous, and the life of the party, she ultimately played the pivotal role in the downfall of Nixon’s Presidency.
Find out more »Virtual: Martha Mitchell Calling Talkback
Join us for a live talkback of Martha Mitchell Calling following the broadcast. Shakespeare and Company's Artistic Director Allyn Burrows moderates a discussion on Zoom with Annette Miller, Elizabeth Aspenlieder, playwright Jodi Rothe, and filmmaker Mark Farrell.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Autumn
Franklyn Longley is a veteran big-city mayor who’s in line to become the first black governor of his state—until his godson is tapped by the party to run instead.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Autumn
Franklyn Longley is a veteran big-city mayor who’s in line to become the first black governor of his state—until his godson is tapped by the party to run instead.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Autumn
Franklyn Longley is a veteran big-city mayor who’s in line to become the first black governor of his state—until his godson is tapped by the party to run instead.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Autumn
Franklyn Longley is a veteran big-city mayor who’s in line to become the first black governor of his state—until his godson is tapped by the party to run instead.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Kernel of Sanity
In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran actor - an actor he's worked with in only one play but to whom he's found himself inexorably, if nearly unwittingly, attached. In a taunt, tense 90 minutes, three people - a black man, a white man, and a white woman - clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and…
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Kernel of Sanity
In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran actor - an actor he's worked with in only one play but to whom he's found himself inexorably, if nearly unwittingly, attached. In a taunt, tense 90 minutes, three people - a black man, a white man, and a white woman - clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and…
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Kernel of Sanity
In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran actor - an actor he's worked with in only one play but to whom he's found himself inexorably, if nearly unwittingly, attached. In a taunt, tense 90 minutes, three people - a black man, a white man, and a white woman - clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and…
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Kernel of Sanity
In a small Midwestern city in the late 1970s, a young actor, on his way from New York to California, takes a detour for a surprise visit to a veteran actor - an actor he's worked with in only one play but to whom he's found himself inexorably, if nearly unwittingly, attached. In a taunt, tense 90 minutes, three people - a black man, a white man, and a white woman - clash over their contradictory senses of marginalization and…
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Smart People
It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest -- a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist -- are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But, like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia R. Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Smart People
It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest -- a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist -- are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But, like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia R. Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Smart People
It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest -- a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist -- are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But, like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia R. Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics.
Find out more »Virtual Reading Series: Smart People
It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest -- a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist -- are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But, like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives. Lydia R. Diamond brings these characters together in this sharp, witty play about social and sexual politics.
Find out more »December 2020
New Horizons, a Virtual Gala
Join us online for an exciting night full of humor and heart, rallying around what is essential—connection, curiosity, and humanity—as we look to and celebrate New Horizons.
Find out more »Emma
Emma Woodhouse prides herself on being a matchmaker with an impeccable track record, much to the chagrin of her dear friend Mr. Knightley. Her latest scheme revolves around the sweet Harriet Smith, whom Emma advises to reject a perfectly good marriage proposal in favor of another eligible bachelor. But her best-laid plans are turned upside down by unpredictable displays of affection, unexpected rivals and Emma’s sudden realization that true love may have been under her nose all along. With screwball…
Find out more »Emma
Emma Woodhouse prides herself on being a matchmaker with an impeccable track record, much to the chagrin of her dear friend Mr. Knightley. Her latest scheme revolves around the sweet Harriet Smith, whom Emma advises to reject a perfectly good marriage proposal in favor of another eligible bachelor. But her best-laid plans are turned upside down by unpredictable displays of affection, unexpected rivals and Emma’s sudden realization that true love may have been under her nose all along. With screwball…
Find out more »Emma
Emma Woodhouse prides herself on being a matchmaker with an impeccable track record, much to the chagrin of her dear friend Mr. Knightley. Her latest scheme revolves around the sweet Harriet Smith, whom Emma advises to reject a perfectly good marriage proposal in favor of another eligible bachelor. But her best-laid plans are turned upside down by unpredictable displays of affection, unexpected rivals and Emma’s sudden realization that true love may have been under her nose all along. With screwball…
Find out more »Virtual: Senior Fall Festival of Shakespeare
Led by Education Director Kevin G. Coleman, the Shakespeare & Company Education Artists, and Shakespeare & Company Costumers - this virtual Fall Festival featuring 30 Senior students from Berkshire and Columbia County High Schools, celebrates with a special online only festival. Over the last 5 weeks, students from seven Fall Festival schools have delved into Shakespeare’s works, unpack the language, and savor the humor, intensity, and transcendent beauty of these plays.
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