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Lee’s First Giving Tree Drop-Off Event a big success

The event was a big success—collecting almost 50 Christmas trees and other holiday greens and multiple boxes of food donations and $1,700 for the Lee Food Pantry, which serves residents from several communities in the area.

Bits & Bytes: Finn Wittrock in ‘Hamlet;’ Pittsfield CityJazz Festival; Berkshire Coaching Weekend; Plein Air event at Olana; college fair at BCC; rain garden...

Most recently Finn Wittrock, who grew up in Shakespeare & Company, was seen in the Oscar-nominated film “The Big Short” opposite Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale and Steve Carell.

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘The Consul, the Tramp, and America’s Sweetheart,’ poignantly relevant, finely conceived

New plays are a wonder to behold and this one is almost as good as the movie at its core. This excellent new play is a comedy that tugs at the mind's heart more than at the heart's mind.

INSIGHT: Backstory of ‘The Mother of the Maid’ at Shakespeare & Co.

Joan of Arc. Mother Theresa. Gandhi. Anne Frank. With no money, no voice, and in the face of indomitable forces, some were able to rise above the face of brutal means and oppression and change the course of human history and awareness forever.

Jazz sensation, Eli & The Hot Six, do Gershwin at Barrington Stage

Pittsfield -- Barrington Stage Company will present Swingin' Gershwin with Eli & The Hot Six + Rebecca Sullivan on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, Monday, June...

POV: Shakespeare and Company’s Game of Thrones

I hear the cries around me of "bring back Tony Simotes," but who would be so noble as to put himself forward to be humiliated publicly once again. The season awaits. 'The Comedy of Errors' dominates the summer and perhaps that is as it should be in a season where so many errors, though not so comic ones, have already been committed.

Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,’ Chekhov in ‘Berkshire’ County

Shakespeare & Company is known for its revelatory clarity of dense speech as well as for its comic abilities. It was made for this play.

Berkshire Playwrights Lab: Seven Successful Years Celebrated with a Gala

"This is one of my favorite events in the Berkshires. It’s a true honor to be a part of this -- they are celebrating new playwrights, new work, rich language and stories that resonate within all of us." -- Shakespeare and Company actress and Communications Director Elizabeth Aspenlieder
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