Tri-Arts at The Sharon Playhouse
49 Amenia Road, POB 1187
Sharon, CT 06069
Phone: (860) 364-SHOW (7469)
Summer Fax: (860) 364-8043
Winter Fax: (860) 435-6222

Excellent local theater at Sharon Playhouse / Tri State Theater for the Arts. TRI-ARTS is a professionally enhanced, community-based organization, dedicated to bringing quality theater to the tri-state area. Bill Suter, Board member, Broadway producer and Tony award voter says, "Based on my experience, we have succeeded in creating this professional quality theater at TRI-ARTS and are committed to maintaining or exceeding it at The Sharon Playhouse."

Barrington Stage Company
PO Box 946
Great Barrington

Performing at:
Consolati Performing Arts Center
Berkshire School Road
PO Box 946
Sheffield, MA 01257

Barrington Stage Company, located in the Berkshire Hills of southwestern Massachusetts, was founded in December, 1994 by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and former Managing Director Susan Sperber. BSC's mission is two-fold: to produce and develop top-notch professional theatre and to develop a local audience by establishing a strong community relationship with residents of Berkshire County and the adjoining tri-state area.

Berkshire Theatre Festival
Main Street, Box 797
Stockbridge, MA 01262
Phone: (413) 298-5536

It is of no surprise that the Berkshire Theatre Festival's Playhouse has become both an historical and cultural icon. From its inception, the building has had nothing but great minds and high ideals (save for a brief, early stint as the Stockbridge Casino); the building was designed by Stanford White's architectural firm and first became an active theatre as a result of Mabel Choate selling the building to Walter Clark, Dr. Austen Fox Riggs and Daniel Chester French, who formed a sort of "pre-Tribeca" artistic alliance called the Three Arts Society.

The Berkshire Playhouse's opening night was on June 4, 1928 and has since seen some the age's most notable actors treading the stage, including Cagney, Barrymore, Gish, Hepburn, Keaton, Hackman, Hoffman, Pacino, and countless others performing the great works of Wilder, Hellman, O'Neil and Williams.

In 1967, the Berkshire Playhouse was renamed the Berkshire Theatre Festival. To make room for the many new and different works, the Unicorn Theatre was created in the 1970s, specifically to showcase more experimental, challenging or provocative works. In recent years, the building has been renovated and improved to make the theatre and even more pleasant entertainment. The BTF has shepherded a critically acclaimed set of works, while helping focus on outreach to bring the theatre closer to the people of the community, as well as offering residencies where students can hone their craft. The entire experience challenges and benefits both artist and audience.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
PO Box 287
Lee, MA
Phone: (413) 637-1322
Box Office: (413) 243-0745

Jacob's Pillow is an internationally celebrated center for dance that presents dance in all forms from the world over during its annual Festival; supports the creation of new work through commissions and residencies; engages the public through free performances, exhibits, lectures, and talks with artists and scholars; educates professional dancers at its School under the guidance of an international faculty; trains interns in arts administration and technical theatre; and preserves dance legacies through documentation and an extensive historical Archive.

Jacob's Pillow was originally a family farm and a station on the Underground Railroad in the 1800s. Since its modern day founding in 1933 by the legendary dancer Ted Shawn, extraordinary artists have taught, performed and created dance at the Pillow. For its contribution to cultural life in America, Jacob's Pillow was named in 2001 to the National Register of Historic Places.

Shakespeare & Co
Administration: (413) 637-1199
Box Office: (413) 637-3353

The Mount
2 Plunkett Street
PO Box 865
Lenox, MA 01240
(413) 637-1199

Founded in 1978, Shakespeare & Company aspires to create a theatre of unprecedented excellence rooted in the classical ideals of inquiry, balance and harmony; a company which performs as the Elizabethans did - in love with poetry, mystical prowess, and the mysteries of the universe. With a core of over one hundred artists, the Company performs Shakespeare, generating opportunities for collaboration between actors, directors and designers of all races, nationalities and backgrounds.

Shakespeare & Company provides original, in-depth, classical training and performance methods. Shakespeare & Company also develops and produces new plays of social and political significance. Shakespeare & Company's educational programs inspire a new generation of students and scholars to discover the resonance of Shakespeare's truths, in the everyday world, demonstrating the influence that classical theatre can have within a community.

On-line at: www.shakespeare.org

The Theater Barn
654 Route 20
New Lebanon, NY 12125
Phone: (518) 794-8989
email: info@theaterbarn.com

Productions throughout Summer and Fall.

On-line at: www.theaterbarn.com