Photo Coverage: Inside the Opening Night Gala of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE at Shakespeare & Co.
By: Stephen Sorokoff Jul. 11, 2016
The magic of Venice was in the air at Shakespeare & Company last night. After a stirring performance of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Tina Packer in the Tina Packer Playhouse, it was cocktails, dinner, and dancing under the stars on the beautiful campus of Shakespeare & Company. Guests mingled with actors and dignitaries at the annual Gala and BroadwayWorld was there. The play runs through August 21st. Check out the photos below.
Located in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Shakespeare & Company is one of the largest Shakespeare Festivals in the country, operating year-round. The organization attracts more than 60,000 patrons annually, with a core of over 150 artists.
The Company develops and performs Shakespeare, classics, contemporary, and new plays of social and political significance generating opportunities for collaboration between actors, directors and designers of all races, nationalities and backgrounds.
Shakespeare & Company embraces the core values of Shakespeare's work: collaboration, commitment to language, visceral experience and classical ideals, expressed with physical prowess and an embodied contemporary voice.
Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff
Tina Packer, Director, Founding Artistic Director
Curtain Call, The Merchant of Venice
John Hadden (Antonio), curtain call
Jonathan Epstein (Shylock)
Curtain Call
Ariel Bock & Jonathan Croy, co-artistic directors
Ken Werner, Chair, Board of Trustees
Kevin G. Coleman, Education Director
Eric Avari (Duke), Betsy Lee Workman, Reid White, Gwendolyn Schwinke, voice/text coach, Miles Anderson, Bella Merlin, (Nerissa), Stephen Sorokoff, Eda Sorokoff, Michale Fuchs (Old Gobbo), Elizabeth Aspenlieder, Associate Director
Leslie Jerome, Stephen Sorokoff, Eda Sorokoff, Steve Jerome
Eda Sorokoff & Richard Grausman
John Hadden & Eda Sorokoff
Curtain Call
John Hadden, curtain Call
The Merchant of Venice, curtain call
Ryan Leeds, Molly Clancy, publicity director, Pete Sanders
Tina Packer Playhouse
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