Shakespeare & Company, Massachusetts, United States
4.5 (250 reviews) Spent Ranking #5 in Berkshires Theaters
New Spruce Theater
Located in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Shakespeare & Company is one of the largest Shakespeare Festivals in the country, founded in 1978 by Tina Packer. The organization attracts more than 60,000 patrons annually, with a core of over 150 artists and more than 30 full-time staff. The Company develops and performs Shakespeare, classics, contemporary, and new plays of social and political significance, generating opportunities for collaboration between actors, directors and designers of all races, nationalities and backgrounds. Shakespeare & Company embraces the core values of Shakespeare's work: collaboration, commitment to language, visceral experience and classical ideals, expressed with physical prowess and an embodied contemporary voice. The Company offers one of the most extensive actor training programs by a regional theatre in the country, where professionals from all over the world come to train with the Organization known for its original, in-depth, classical training and performance methods. Shakespeare & Company is also home to an award-winning and nationally recognized theatre-in-education program, one of the largest the Northeast; it reaches more than 45,000 students annually with innovative performances, workshops and residencies.
Address
70 Kemble St, Lenox, MA 01240-2813
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Website
http://www.shakespeare.org/
Current local date and time now
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 23:40
User Ratings
4.5 based on (250 reviews)
Reviews
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5CJ R 5:00 PM Aug 18, 2021
Great experience with COVID seating
We watched King Lear at the New Spruce Theatre - the seating was perfect (and comfortable). They had COVID seating charts in place - seat skipped between each group so you felt comfortable. We could hear all actors (row D on the left close to the middle) and see the action. The play went over the 2 hour 50 minute run time which was fine with us as well as it appeared the entire audience. It had rained during the day and just finished half an hour before the show. The staff made sure to dry off all of the seats so it was a non-issue for us. It was a great location and all of the actors did a wonderful job!
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5gersiesgirls 5:00 PM Aug 5, 2022
Wonderful performance
We attend at least one performance at Shakespeare & Company every time we stay in the Berkshires. They have added additional outdoor performance spaces in response to the Covid pandemic, and our theater was outdoors. It was comfortable, small enough to feel like a personal experience, and the performance itself was wonderful. We highly recommend this theater company.
