My sister and I took off for two days of theater at Shakespeare and Company in the Berkshires:
https://www.shakespeare.org/shows
We saw Macbeth, well-acted but with a director's decision to omit the three witches, which really doesn't work.
The program notes mentioned the modern religion of Wicca and not wanting to offend anyone with the negative image of witches.
No Wiccan with half a brain expects our use of the word "Witch" to re-write centuries of cultural history, including Shakespeare. We just capitalize it. Keep the witches in Macbeth, uncapitalized, and produce the play properly.
The best play was a modern one, Morning after Grace, three characters in their seventies on the morning after a funeral. The first half a truly hilarious situation comedy, the second half the heart-warming resolution to everybody's predicaments.
We also saw a good outdoor student production of Love's Labour's Lost, and I went to a concert production of La Boheme at Tanglewood.
Bobby and Louise stayed with my niece Em, and went to the Wrong Groomer (as noted below).
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