By Jessie McKinley for The New York Times, 10 May 2015 The trees are finally budding in the Berkshires, and the summer houses, both theatrical and residential, are beginning to stir. But the seasons that preceded the spring’s awakening could hardly have been more fraught for Shakespeare & Company, the widely respected and high-minded Massachusetts troupe, which ran headfirst into […]
By Jim Levulis for WAMC, 17 March 2015 It has been a tumultuous few weeks for Shakespeare & Company. In early March, executive director Rick Dildine abruptly resigned to return to Shakespeare Festival St. Louis as artistic and executive director. That was just six months after he came to Lenox. Days later, three members of the company’s board of trustees, including a chairperson and […]
By Clarence Fanto for The Berkshire Eagle, 12 March 2015 A week after Executive Director and President Rick Dildine startled Shakespeare & Company by resigning six months into his job, the theater troupe is coping with new turmoil at the top. Sarah Hancock, chairwoman of the board of trustees, resigned from the leadership post during what she described as an “unofficial, […]
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