Shakespeare & Company (Massachusetts)

Shakespeare & Company is an American theatre company and venue complex located in Lenox, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires region of western Massachusetts.

It also conducts training programs for professional classical actors as well as education programs for elementary through high school students, the latter reaching over 50,000 students annually.

Until 2001, Shakespeare & Company was based at The Mount, Edith Wharton's historic property in Lenox.

[3] Each fall since 1988, the education department of Shakespeare & Company hosts The Fall Festival of Shakespeare, a non-competitive program for high schoolers.

Teaching artists and technicians from the company work with students at ten high schools throughout western and central Massachusetts and the Capital District of New York to create 90-minute performances of Shakespeare plays.