By Dick Lindsay for The Berkshire Eagle, 27 August 2015 Twelve Berkshire County Vietnam War veterans learned this week they have plenty in common with William Shakespeare. The Bard’s works often feature war veterans and the struggles they endured returning from the battlefields. On Wednesday evening, several of them took turns reading a militaristic scene from “Othello.” Later, they alternated lines […]
By Don Aucoin for The Boston Globe, 27 June 2015 By the time of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,’’ Prince Harry, the dissolute charmer of the “Henry IV’’ plays, has become King Henry, an untested ruler shouldering a weighty role but still trying to find his way. Something of the same seems to be true of Ryan Winkles, who plays the young monarch in […]
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 Amanda Katz for The Boston Globe, 18 April 2015 One morning this month, Tina Packer was rushing across Harvard’s campus to professor Marjorie Garber’s 11 a.m. class on Shakespeare’s early plays when she learned a secret: The class, which she was guest-teaching, typically didn’t really get going till 11:07. She stopped short on the sidewalk. “Tricked! Tricked! Tricked!” she […]
By Elizabeth Toohey for the Christian Science Monitor, 9 April 2015 Tina Packer does not need to be told to “lean in.” At 76, she has founded one of the largest Shakespeare festivals in the country (Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts), directed most of Shakespeare’s plays, and written and starred in the one-woman-show “Women of Will,” which she travels […]
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