Shakespeare & Company 2025 season individual tickets are on sale now
Lenox— Shakespeare & Company has announced its 2025 season, including a World Premiere, two Shakespeare productions, and a new Jewish play reading series.
Opening on Friday, June 20th, Shakespeare & Company’s 48th season begins with the World Premiere of “The Victim” by Lawrence Goodman, directed by Daniel Gidron and featuring Annette Miller. Staged as a reading in the company’s “Plays in Process” series in 2024, The Victim tells the stories of three women: a successful New York doctor whose racial diversity training has gone horribly wrong, a health aide grappling with racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Holocaust survivor facing her own horror and finding her way back to love and healing.
From July 1st through the 6th, there will be a reprise of “Shake It Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret,” co-created by Allyn Burrows and Jacob Ming-Trent. A mash-up of modern music and Shakespeare verse, “Shake It Up” premiered in 2024 and returns for a limited, six-show run. From July 12th through August 11th, the classic tale of meddling families and young love “Romeo and Juliet” will be staged at the Arthur S. Waldstein Amphitheatre, directed by Kevin G. Coleman and Jonathan Epstein.
From July 25th through August 24th, Shakespeare & Company’s returns to August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle” with “The Piano Lesson,” directed by Christopher V. Edwards. Set against the backdrop of 1936 Pittsburgh during the Great Depression, Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning “The Piano Lesson” is a testament to the complexities of family, history, and legacy.
From August 14th through August 24th, “The Taming of the Shrew,” with its timeless themes of identity, gender roles, and the clash of wills, will be directed by Allyn Burrows and Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer at the Tina Packer Playhouse. From October 9th through October 11th, Shakespeare & Company will introduce “A Celebration of Jewish Playwrights: A Special Weekend of Staged Readings” at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre.
The season opens on Friday, June 20th at Shakespeare & Company, located at 70 Kemble St, Lenox. Individual tickets are on sale now. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Springfield Museums presents ‘To the Moon and Back,’ a space-themed Valentine’s event
Springfield— On Friday, February 14th from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Springfield Museums presents ‘To the Moon and Back,’ a dazzling Valentine’s celebration.
“Moongazing with someone you love keeps your feet on the ground while your hearts travel through space,” says Jenny Powers, Director of the Springfield Science Museum. “We’ll be celebrating all things love and all things moon this Valentine’s Day with spectacular views through telescopes, hands-on activities designed for adults, and of course, a planetarium show. When your love says they love you to the moon and back, that’s 476,000 miles!”
The immersive, colorful planetarium show features the Science Museum’s Zeiss full-dome projection system and a selection of romantic songs about the moon. Other highlights of the evening will include: tours of the museum’s rooftop observatory, encounters with live animals, center, exploration of “The Robot Zoo,” magic by Malik the Magician, photo opportunities, appetizers, desserts, and a cash bar.
The 21+ event is on Friday, February 14th from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Springfield Museums at Springfield Museums, located at 21 Edwards Street in Springfield. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents a screening of ‘Casablanca’ for Valentine’s Day
Great Barrington— On Friday, February 14th at 7 p.m., Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center presents a screening of “Casablanca” (1942) for Valentine’s Day.
Widely regarded as one of the best movies of all time, “Casablanca” is a romantic drama set during World War II. Rick (Humphrey Bogart) is an American expat and café owner caught between his love for Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) and supporting the cause of her husband Victor (Paul Henreid), a Nazi resistance leader. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, winning Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
The screening is on Friday, February 14th at 7 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, located at 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington. Tickets and more information can be found online.
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Anti-Imperialist Solidarity presents a screening of ‘Borderland, The Line Within’ a film exposing the border industrial complex at The Triplex
Great Barrington— On Thursday, February 13th at 7 p.m., Anti-Imperialist Solidarity presents a screening of “Borderland, The Line Within,” a film exposing the border industrial complex, at The Triplex.
Five years in the making, “Borderland” exposes the war waged on immigrants daily in the United States through a massive system of surveillance and a militarized border industrial complex. This well documented large scale human rights crisis is setting the stage for an entire class of people to live in fear of a carceral system that treats them as criminals. But the film’s protagonists, all immigrants themselves, are quietly building strength, their leadership emerging in the shadow of this border-industrial complex.
The screening is on Thursday, February 13th at 7 p.m. at the Triplex Cinema, located at 70 Railroad Street in Great Barrington. There will be a post-screening Q&A with award-winning director Pamela Yates and producer Paco de Onis. Sliding-scale tickets and more information can be found online. This event will benefit Roots Dreams and Mustard Seeds.
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Great Barrington Libraries presents ‘What is Malware?”, a tech-talk at the Mason Library
Great Barrington— On Friday, February 14th at 4 p.m., Great Barrington Libraries presents ‘What is Malware?”, a tech-talk at the Mason Library.
What is malware? Most of us have heard the term. Major computer security companies have dubbed malware as the internet’s version of the “boogeyman” to be feared and from which users must protect themselves. But what exactly is it? How much of what we hear is fact or fiction? Is Apple really as impenetrable as some say? Who is really in danger?
The talk is on Friday, February 14th at 4 p.m. at the Mason Library, located at 231 Main Street in Great Barrington. More information can be found online.
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Friends of the New Lebanon Railroad Station square dance fundraiser
New Lebanon, N.Y.— On Saturday, February 15th from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Friends of the New Lebanon Railroad Station is having a country square dance fundraiser.
The band, Kitchen Kaylie, will play a variety of songs for attendees’ listening enjoyment and dancing, including square dancing and country dancing. There will be refreshments and a 50/50 raffle. The event will benefit the restoration of the train depot in New Lebanon, N.Y.
The fundraiser is on Saturday, February 15th from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the community hall of the Catholic Church, located at 732 Route 20 in New Lebanon. The suggested donation is $15 for adults and $25 for families.
