welcome to a stellar 2024 summer season!
Tickets available now.
performing may 31-aug. 25
Three New Plays on two stages in the daniel arts center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
One new play staged in association with Shakespeare & Company, in lenox.
Dog People (May 31-June 16, the liebowitz theater)
Two people, two dogs, one day in the park. The dogs are rescues, and their people need some second chances too. Who really rescues who?
It’s a meaningful, affective story by respected actor-playwright Leigh Strimbeck, who developed the script as a member of Berkshire Voices, the playwriting cohort affiliated with GB Public. Associate Artistic Director Judy Braha will direct the soon-to-be cast tow-hander. Dog People plays Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sat. & Sun. 3pm, in the Liebowitz black box theater.
You’re invited to A Festive Evening with Great Barrington Public Theater, to benefit Berkshire Voices.
Fri - June 7, 2024 - 6:00-9:00pm EDT
Join us for a delightful summer evening to support and celebrate Berkshire Voices, where playwrights come together to create and develop new work in a supportive and constructive community.. There will be delicious summer, small-plate foods, cocktails, wine and soft refreshments in a tent on the lawn outside the Daniel Arts Center, followed by a sneak preview of Night at the Speakeasy, the sensational new cabaret spotlighting Janelle Farias Sando that opens July 26, and champagne and desserts under the stars after the show.
TICKET INFORMATION
$500 Evening Underwriter
1 ticket to dinner and the show, reserved cabaret table, recognition in our program and from the stage
$250 General Admission Ticket
- General ticket to dinner and show
We hope to see you there for this one-of-a-kind event!
Survival of the UnFit (July 6-July 21, the mcconnell theater)
Survival of the UnFit (July 6-July 21) by Oren Safdie takes audiences to an edgy, mercilessly comic meet-the-parents dinner party where honesty is dished up, along with just desserts.
A recent hit at the Moscow Theater of The Modern Play, the story touches on themes of love, loss, loyalty, the acceptance of others shortcomings, and it redefines what family means.
Matt Penn will direct the four-person cast. Survival of the Unfit plays Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sat. & Sun. 3pm, in the McConnell mainstage theater.
Night at the Speakeasy (July 26-Aug. 11, the mcconnell theater)
Night at the Speakeasy (July 26-Aug. 11) a fun, new cabaret show spotlighting Janelle Farias Sando’s powerhouse voice and stage talent. The audiences is seated onstage, in the ambience of an after-hours bootleg club, for a sensational performance of Broadway show tunes, favorite classics from the American songbook and some surprising genre crossovers.
Night at the Speakeasy plays Thurs-Sat 7:30pm; Sat. & Sun. 3pm, in the McConnell mainstage theater.
Flight of the Monarch (Aug. 3-25, elayne p. bernstein theater, shakespeare & company, lenox)
Flight of the Monarch (Aug. 3-25) written by GB Public Artistic Director Jim Frangione, directed by Associate AD Judy Braha and produced in association with GB Public and Shakespeare & Company, Flight of the Monarch is a dark comedy set on Cape Cod that explores how two siblings’ lifelong connections unravel when one loses her way and makes a bold request.
Featuring Allyn Burrows and Corrina May, it plays Aug. 3-25 in Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theater. Tickets are available on the Shakespeare & Company site and box office only (413) 637-3353.
Interested in seeing all three shows at a 15% discount? (does not include Flight of the monarch at shakespeare & company)
For our any Fri. and/or Sat. 7:30pm package Click here.
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Plan now for Upcoming FREE evening events
PRESENTED AT
SAINT JAMES PLACE
352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA
For reservations to free events, email tristan.greatbarringtonpublic@gmail.com, specifying event date. Seating is limited.
iTuesday, May 14th, 7pm
FREE reading of Cucumber Sandwiches, a new play by Leigh Currran, from Berkshire Voices. A refreshing dramedy about two well-heeled women struggling to preserve their lifelong friendship in the face of buried secrets and a rapidly changing world.
Directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue, with Leigh Curran and Mimi Lieber.