Celebrating Jewish Plays An Immersive Weekend of Staged Readings at Shakespeare & Company

This fall, Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., introduces the Celebrating Jewish Plays: An Immersive Weekend of Staged Readings, October 10 – 12. Four readings will be staged Friday through Sunday: The Price by Arthur Miller, Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein, Here There Are Blueberries by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, and Roz & Ray by Karen Hartman, featuring Tony-nominated actor John Douglas Thompson (The Gilded Age).

The Price, by Arthur Miller, Friday, October 10, 7pm A brilliant, powerful, and deeply moving play that marked the author’s triumphant return to Broadway, The Price examines – with compassion, humor, and rare insight – the relationship of two long-estranged brothers who meet after many years to dispose of their late father’s belongings.

The Sisters Rosensweig, by Wendy Wasserstein, Saturday, October 11, 2pm Sara, who lives in London, is a representative for a major Hong Kong bank and is about to turn 54. Her sisters, Gorgeous Teitelbaum and Pfeni Rosensweig, arrive to help celebrate the birthday. Gorgeous is Dr. Gorgeous with a radio-advice program; Pfeni is a world traveler. Various friends and boyfriends also arrive for the party. In particular, Mervyn, a friend of Pfeni’s boyfriend Geoffrey, falls instantly in love with Sara.

Here There Are Blueberries, by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, Saturday, October 11, 7pm In 2007, a mysterious album featuring Nazi-era photographs arrived at the desk of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archivist. As curators unraveled the shocking truth behind the images, the album soon made headlines and ignited a debate that reverberated far beyond the museum walls. Based on real events, Here There Are Blueberries tells the story of these historical photographs, what they reveal about the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and our own humanity.

Roz and Ray, by Karen Hartman, Saturday, October 12, 2pm Featuring Tony-nominated actor John Douglas Thompson (HBO’s The Gilded Age). Ray is a devoted single parent with one goal: to keep his twin hemophiliac sons alive. In 1976, this meant endless hospital visits, rigorous testing, and frequent blood transfusions. Then Ray meets Roz – a brilliant doctor who offers a cutting-edge treatment for his boys – and everything clicks; until they both discover the miracle treatment may lead to very dangerous results.