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Company Name:
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Shakespeare & Company
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Description:
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One of the larger Shakespeare Festivals in the country, Shakespeare & Company was founded in 1978 by Tina Packer, its current Artistic Director and President. Born in England, Tina journeyed to the U.S. in the early 1970’s with the idea of creating and running a theatre company that merged the power suits of British actors and American actors: the spoken word and the physical body. Reinvigorating her sense of what Elizabethan theatre and acting constituted, Tina secured residency at novelist Edith Wharton’s beautiful turn-of-the-century estate, The Mount. In 2000, Tina and the Company purchased its new 63-acre home (with 23 buildings) at 70 Kemble Street in Lenox Center, one mile from the Mount, for $4.1 million, raising $5 million for the completion of Phase One in just one year.
The Company is also home to one of the largest theatre-in-education programs in the northeast. The Education Program reached more than 40,000 students annually with innovative performances, workshops, and residencies. In addition to core programming of the Fall Festival of Shakespeare and the Spring Tour, youth programs include an expanded Shakespeare & Young Company and a program for adjudicated youth offered in collaboration with the Berkshire Juvenile Court.
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City:
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Lenox
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State:
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MA
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Postal Address:
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70 Kemble Street
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ZIP / Postal Code:
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01240
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Phone Number:
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413-637-1199
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