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Author: Don Aucoin LENOX — Even granting that productivity-sapping distractions are an occupational hazard for any writer, Aphra Behn certainly has her hands full in “Or,” a clever and beguiling comedy …

Boston Globe Review: She’s got a play to write, but the plot keeps thickening Read More »

Author: Macey Levin Aphra Behn is considered to be the first professional woman playwright, having been paid for her first play The Forc’d Marriage in 1670. Her plays, novels and poems were criticized …

Or, is a 17th Century version of a British sex comedy Read More »

Author: Steve Barnes Rich with pleasures theatrical, linguistic, philosophical and comedic, Liz Duffy Adams’ play “Or,” at Shakespeare & Company is a witty romp inspired by the life of Aphra Behn, …

ATU Review: ‘Or,’ a witty romp in Lenox Read More »

Author: J. Peter Bergman William Shakespeare was a master at the mismatched lovers plot. He proved it again and again in his comedies and his tragedies. In the light-hearted “A Midsummer …

Review: Superb, reimagined ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at Shake & Co. Read More »

Author: J. Peter Bergman If you like to laugh, long, hard and hearty as I do, there is no better place to do it than in the Rose Footprint Tent on …

Edge Review: Emperor of the Moon Read More »

Author: Macey Levin One of the delights each summer at Shakespeare and Co. is the over-the-top farces staged at the Rose Footprint. This tent-covered playing space is similar to 16th and …

Review: The Emperor of the Moon, commedia-style, at Shakespeare & Company Read More »

Author: Terry Teachout “The Merchant of Venice,” like “The Taming of the Shrew,” is one of the Shakespeareplays that makes modern audiences feel increasingly and understandably uncomfortable. To interpret the tale …

WSJ Review: The Merchant of Venice – Art that makes you squirm Read More »

Author: David Robinson, Lanesborough To the editor: That was fun, wasn’t it? The flags and fireworks, the beer and barbecues, the parades and picnics, and everybody’s a patriot for a rollicking …

Letter to the Editor: ‘Ugly Lies the Bone’ forces focus on veterans Read More »

Author: Sharon Smullen One of the Bard’s most endearing and enduring comedies, “Twelfth Night,” penned to celebrate the end of Christmas, is this summer’s offering by Shakespeare & Company at the …

Berkshire Eagle: Shakespeare & Company’s “Twelfth Night” finds clarity outdoors at The Mount Read More »

Author: Steve Barnes No words accompany the action in a heartbreaking moment in Shakespeare & Company‘s new “The Merchant of Venice,” but the effect is wallopingly powerful: The great Shakespearean actor Jonathan Epstein, …

ATU Review: A vivid ‘Merchant” in Lenox Read More »