SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY

Lenox. MA – Shakespeare and Company was started down the road from its present site in 1978 by Tina Packer at Edith Wharton’s estate, “The Mount”. In 2001 it was moved a mile down the street to its new 30 acre home. At Shakespeare and Company they have a troupe that puts on plays. They also have one of the largest theater-in-education programs in the Northeast with upward of 50,000 students annually.


This is the Founders Theater with this beautiful car in front of it.


This is also the location for the Rose Playhouse Project USA. It will be the world’s only historically accurate reconstruction of the originally Rose Playhouse. The playhouse will be surrounded by an Elizabethan village. The originally was built in 1587 on the banks of the Thames River and was where Shakespeare’s earliest plays were performed. You can see the “Rose Footprint”; during the season it is tented (the round cement low structure). This is the location where the theater will be built



More info: http://www.shakespeare.org/