Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Description: Shakespeare & Company’s Fall, Holiday and Winter seasons come complete with merriment, intrigue, romance, and even a flying saucer or two (thanks in part to Orson Welles)!
By now, it’s a well-known fact that there’s always something going on at Shakespeare & Company. Our cornucopia of year-round offerings provides audiences with exciting, thoughtful productions long after the Summer season has ended. As the leaves begin to change, our Fall, Holiday and Winter seasons will rev up, giving audiences a cheery dose of entertainment during these chillier months.
This fall, we’re embracing the Halloween spirit with the provocative "War of the Worlds," a live adaptation of Orson Welles’s thrilling radio broadcast about Martians invading Earth. Complete with song, dance, and live 1940s-style radio advertisements, this re-imagined production has our versatile S&Co. actors slipping seamlessly from one character to another. Come December, our newest holiday tradition, "The Santaland Diaries" (from beloved humorist David Sedaris), will light up the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre featuring the slightly jaded but loveable elf, Crumpet.
The New Year rings in with Moliére’s sharp-witted farce "The Learned Ladies," directed by Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer.
And, of course, concurrent with these performances we have the Education Program’s 23rd Annual "Fall Festival of Shakespeare," the January Month-long Intensive actor training program, the Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company and their production of "Cymbeline," special events like Will 448 (our namesake’s Birthday Bash), our Spring Tour of Shakespeare: "Macbeth," our fun-filled production of "Shakespeare and A Language that Shaped a World," and too many others to mention. With so much going on, it’s clear that we don’t really have an “off-season” anymore, and that’s just how we like it.
At Shakespeare & Company, we believe that creativity and artistic innovation are year-round endeavors, so please join us as we dive headfirst into a fresh round of fabulous events and shows.
