The bard the beat the blues

by will LeBow
Directed by jim frangione

Playing June 8 - June 26, 2022
the Mcconnell Theater

The Bard The Beat The Blues, played in rotation with the other Solos, June 8 – June 26. It’s a punchy compilation of Shakespeare monologues, Beat poetry and live music composed and performed by Will LeBow, one of the most lauded actors in the country, with credits ranging from Broadway and Lincoln Center to Off-Broadway, and as a member of ART in Cambridge, MA. The Bard The Beat The Blues invoked some of Shakespeare’s most memorable language and characters, mixed with LeBow’s original songs and the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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Cast and creative team

  • Will LeBow

    Will LeBow (Writer/Performer) is a stage and screen actor. His credits include BROADWAY: Act One. OFF-BROADWAY: Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Nocturne (NYTW Drama Desk Nomination). REGIONAL: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Sonia Flew, The Rivals, The Cherry Orchard, The Corn is Green, Love's Labour's Lost (Huntington); The Merchant of Venice, The Birthday Party, Full Circle, We Won't Pay We Won't Pay, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Ubu Rock, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vanya, Animals and Plants, Romance, Duck Variations, Marvelous Party (ART); Once in a Lifetime (ACT); Glengarry Glen Ross, Twelfth Night (MRT); Abduction from the Seraglio, Ariadne Aux Naxos (Boston Lyric Opera); Porgy and Bess (BSO); Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Boston Pops). FILM/TV: What Doesn't Kill You, Next Stop Wonderland, Home Movies, Dr.Katz: Professional Therapist.

  • Jim Frangione

    Jim Frangione (Director) is proud to be working alongside such talented and dedicated colleagues at Great Barrington Public Theater, where new plays are the coin of the realm. Last summer with the Public, Jim directed Mark St. Germain’s new play, Dad, as well as the East Coast premiere of David Mamet’s The Christopher Boy’s Communion. He directed Anne Undeland’s play, Lady Randy, for WAM Theatre; Romance at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater; Private Life at HERE Arts in NY; and An Evening of Shorts by Mamet, Pinter and Silverstein at the ART/Harvard Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Jim’s play, Flight of the Monarch, premiered at Gloucester Stage Company in 2017. His play, Breakwater, the second in a trilogy of Cape Cod plays, received its premiere in 2019 as part of Great Barrington Public’s inaugural season (Berkshire Theatre Critic’s Nomination). Jim has acted for over 35 years; On and Off-Broadway, in National Tours; in many plays with the Atlantic Theater Company and at regional theaters such as: The Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf, The Alley Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Humana Festival of New Plays—and most recently in Prairie Du Chien at Atlantic and Vanya and Sonia and Vanya and Masha and Spike at Shakespeare & Company. Films: Joy, Transamerica, Spartan, Heist, State and Main, The Spanish Prisoner, Homicide, Suits, Claire Dolan and Maryam. Jim is an award-winning audiobook narrator performing over 400 titles.