Berkshire Theatre Festival

Berkshire Theatre Group
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Berkshire Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival
The Red Barn at the Berkshire Theatre Festival
Address	Stockbridge, Massachusetts United States
Coordinates	42°16′55″N 73°18′04″W / 42.282036°N 73.301226°W / 42.282036; -73.301226
Owner	Non-profit Organization
Opened	1928
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The Berkshire Theatre Festival is one of the oldest professional performing arts venues in the Berkshires, celebrating its 80th anniversary season in 2008.

History

The main building of the Berkshire Theatre Festival was originally the Stockbridge Casino, designed by Stanford White and built in 1887. At one point the center of social life in Stockbridge, by 1927 it had fallen into disuse. Mabel Choate, the daughter of one of the casino's founders, purchased the property for $2,000, but wasn't interested in the casino itself (she moved the Mission House to the property). Three prominent Stockbridge residents, sculptor Daniel Chester French, businessman and artist Walter Leighton Clark, and Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, formed a committee called the Three Arts Society to save the casino; Choate sold the building to them for $1 on the condition that it be relocated.^[1] French, Clark, and Riggs agreed, and had the structure dismantled and moved to its current location.

After an extensive renovation, the newly christened Berkshire Playhouse opened on June 4, 1928, with a production of "The Cradle Song" with Eva Le Gallienne. Actors who have starred in productions at the Berkshire Playhouse include James Cagney, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Katharine Hepburn, and Buster Keaton. Notable producing directors have included Billy Miles, Joan White, Robert Paine Grose, George Tabori, Arthur Penn, Josephine Abady, Julianne Boyd, Bill Gibson, Richard Dunlap, and Arthur Storch.^[2]

In 1967 the Three Arts Society was dissolved and the Berkshire Playhouse was incorporated as a nonprofit organization, the Berkshire Theatre Festival. In 1993, a formal season of plays was offered in the Unicorn Theatre to meet the growing popularity of the festival. Prior to that, the Unicorn had been in use for years to house various offerings over the course of the season, including a slate of cabaret and workshop productions in 1992. The Unicorn Theatre was completely replaced with a new facility prior to the 1996 summer season; the inaugural production in the new space was "L-Play" by Beth Henley.

In 2010, Berkshire Theatre Festival merged with The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA to form Berkshire Theatre Group.

The Berkshire Playhouse facility was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[3]

Past seasons

Over the past 80 years, the Berkshire Theatre Festival has produced 550 fully staged productions, an eclectic mix of revivals, classics and premieres, embracing fully its role as a true theatrical “Festival.” More than 2,100 actors have worked at the BTF in more than 6,000 performances, including notable actors that have won Emmys, Oscars, and Tonys. Many playwrights at BTF have won Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes.

1928-1929

1928

The Buffoon – A. Tupper and Howard Lee
Candida – George Bernard Shaw
Captain Applejack – Walter Hackett
The Cradle Song – Martinez Sierra
The Enchanted April – Kane Campbell
Meet the Wife – Lynn Starling
Mr. Pim Passes By – A.A. Milne
Outward Bound – Sutton Vane
The Romantic Age – A.A. Milne
The Swan – Ferenc Molnár

1929

Arms and the Man – George Bernard Shaw
Caroline – Somerset Maugham
The Dover Road – A.A. Milne
Oh Boy – P.G. Wodehouse
Rip Van Winkle – Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault
The Royal Family – George F. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
Thunderin the Air – Robbins Miller
The Truth About Blaydes – A.A. Milne
You Never Can Tell – George Bernard Shaw

1930-1939

1930

The Admirable Crichton – Sir James M. Barrie
Bird in Hand – John Drinkwater
Doctor’s Dilemma – George Bernard Shaw
The Emperor Jones – Eugene O’Neill
Jack in the Box – Dorothy Fletcher and Alexander Kirkland
The Lake – John Houseman and Joan Wolfe
The Lute Song – Sidney Howard and Will Irwin
The Mask and the Face – Luigi Chiarelli Adapted by C.B. Fernold
The Romantic Young Lady – Martinez Sierra
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
The Torchbearers – George Kelly

1931

Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire – Sir James M. Barrie
Captain Brassbounder’s Conversation – George Bernard Shaw
The Constant Wife – Somerset Maugham
Hay Fever – Noël Coward
The Idiot – Jose Ruben
Juno and the Paycock – Sean O’Casey
The Magistrate – Arthur Wing Pinero
Monkey – Sam Janney
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
The Second Man – S.N. Behrman

1932

A Bill of Divorcement – Clemence Dane
Broken Dishes – Martin Flava
Finale – S.K. Lauren
Great Catherine – George Bernard Shaw
Her Cardboard Lover – Jacques Deval and P.G. Wodehouse
Just Out – Edward Bourdet
The Man of Destiny – George Bernard Shaw
The Perfect Alibi – A.A. Milne
The Queen’s Husband – Robert Sherwood
There’s Always Juliet – John Van Druten

1933

Dear Brutus – Sir James M. Barrie
The Devil’s Disciple – George Bernard Shaw
The First Mrs. Fraser – St. John Ervine
The Good Fairy – Ferenc Molnár
The Late Christopher Bean – Sidney Howard
The Queen Was in the Parlor – Noël Coward

1934

As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Biography – S.N. Behrman
Craig’s Wife – George Kelly
Dulcy – George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
Fly Away Home – Dorothy Bennett and Irving White
Good-Bye Again – Allan Scott and George Haight
Her Master’s Voice – Clare Kummer
Pursuit Of Happiness – Alan Child and Isabelle London
Romance – Edward Sheldon
Saturday’s Children – Maxwell Anderson

1935

Accent On Youth – Samuel Raphaelson
All This While – Donald Blackwell and Theodore St. John
As Husbands Go – Rachel Crothers
Berkeley Square – John Bolderston
The Cat and the Canary – John Willard
Declasse – Zoe Akins
In Old Kentucky – Charles Dazey
Meet The Prince – A.A. Milne
Trelawney Of The Wells – Arthur Wing Pinero

1936

A Church Mouse – Ladislaus Fodor
Kind Lady – Edward Chodorov
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary – St. John Ervine
Men In White – Sidney Kingsley
The Octoroon – Dion Boucicault
The Shining Hour – Keith Winter
They Knew What They Wanted – Sidney Howard
Topaze – Benn W. Levy

1937

Becky Sharp – Langdon Mitchell
The Bride the Sun Shines On – Will Cotton
Candida – George Bernard Shaw
Many Mansions – Eckert Goodman and Jules Eckert Goodman
Mariette – Sacha Guitry, Music by Oscar Strauss, Lyrics by Arthur Guiterman, English Adapt. by William Miles
Patience – Libretto by W.S. Gilbert, Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Storm Over Patsy – James Bridie Adapted from the work of Bruno Frank
The Texas Nightingale – Zoe Akins
Tonight At 8:30 – Noël Coward

1938

Best Dressed Woman in the World – Jack Munro
Enter Madame – Gelda Varesi and Dolly Byrne
French Without Tears – Terrence Rattigan
Lightnin’ – W. Smith and Frank Bacon
Pride And Prejudice – Helen Jerome Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Road To Rome – Robert Sherwood
Stage Door – Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
Susan And God – Rachel Crothers
We, The Willoughbys – Meyer Kanin and Harry Ingram
“Yes, My Darling Daughter” – Mark Reed

1939

Anna Christie – Eugene O’Neill
Bicentennial – Allen Osborne
The Circle – Somerset Maugham
Easy Virtue – Noël Coward
First Lady – Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman
Here Today – George Oppenheimer
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
The Petrified Forest – Robert Sherwood
Petticoat Fever – Mark Reed
White Oaks – Mazo de la Roche

1940-1949

1940

Ah, Wilderness – Eugene O’Neill
Autumn Crocus – C.L. Anthony
The Guardsman – Ferenc Molnár
In My Opinion – Samson Raphaelson
Love Rides the Rails – Moreland Carey
The Millionairess – George Bernard Shaw
Mornings at Seven – Paul Osborn
The School for Scandal – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray – Arthur Wing Pinero
Skylark – John Emery
Springtime For Henry – Benn Levy

1941

Beggar on Horseback – George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
George Washington Slept Here – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
Her Cardboard Lover – Jacques Devel and P.G. Wodehouse
Ladies in Retirement – Edward Percy and Reginald Denham
The Male Animal – James Thurber and Elliot Nugent
Miss Nelly Of N’Orleans – Lawrence Egre
Old Acquaintance – John Van Druten
Old English – John Galsworthy
Tomorrow And Tomorrow – Philip Barry

1942, 1943, 1944, 1945

(dark due to war)

1946

Angel Street – Patrick Hamilton
Blithe Spirit – Noël Coward
Elizabeth the Queen – Maxwell Anderson
The Hasty Heart – John Patrick
Kiss and Tell – F. Hugh Herbert
The Late George Apley – John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman
My Sister Eilleen – Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorove
Off the Air – Knowles Entrikin and Howard Breslin
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
What Every Woman Knows – Sir James M. Barrie

1947

The Barretts of Wimpole Street – Rudolph Bealer
The First Mrs. Fraser – St. John Ervine
Heaven Help the Angels – Ted Luce
Junior Miss – Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov
Mademoiselle – Jacques Deval, Adapted by Grace George
Papa Is All – Patterson Greene
State of the Union – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Thunder Rock – Robert Ardrey
Years Ago – Ruth Gordon

1948

Art and Mrs. Bottle – Benn Levy
The Bat – Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
Coming Thru the Rye – Warren Munsell
The Happiest Years – Thomas Coley and William Roerick
I Like It Here – A.B. Shiffrin
The Intimate Strangers – Booth Tarkington
John Loves Mary – Norman Krasna
Little Women – Marian DeForest, Adapted From Louisa May Alcott’s novel
Ned McCobb’s Daughter – Sidney Howard
The Skin of our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
The Torchbearers – George Kelly

1949

The Corn Is Green – Emlyn Williams
The Heiress – Ruth and Augustus Goetz
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
Jennie Kissed Me – Jean Kerr
The Late Christopher Bean – Rene Fauchois, Adapted by Sidney Howard
Let Us Be Gay – Rachel Crothers
The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
On Approval – Frederic Lonsdale
Robert’s Wife – St. John Ervine
The Medium – Gian-Carlo Menotti
Three Men on a Horse – John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
The Winslow Boy – Terrence Rattigan
“Yes, My Darling Daughter” – Mark Reed

1950-1959

1950

Born Yesterday – Garson Kanin
Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson
Gay Divorcee – Cole Porter, Book by Dwight Taylor
Goodbye, My Fancy – Fay Kanin
Harvey – Mary Chase
January Thaw – William Roce
Once an Actor – Rosemary Casey
Peg O’ My Heart – J. Hartley Manners
Post Road – Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell
The Sacred Flame – Somerset Maugham
Smilin’ Through – Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin
The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare

1951

The Chiltern Hundreds – William Douglas Howe
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
Home At Seven – R.C. Sheriff
I Remember Mama – John Van Druten
Lady Windermere’s Fan – Oscar Wilde
Legend of Sarah – James Gow and Armand D’Usseau
Miss Mabel – Dennis Hoey and Clarence Derwent
One’s a Crowd – Eugene Raskin
Second Threshold – Philip Barry
The Silver Whistle – Robert McEnroe
Two Girls Wanted – Gladys Unger

1952

Black Chiffon – Lesley Storm
Death Takes a Holiday – Walter Ferris and Alberto Casella
The Flashing Stream – Charles Morgan
The Lady’s Not For Burning – Christopher Fry
The Little Minister – Sir James M. Barrie
Macbeth – William Shakespeare
The Milky Way – Lynn Root and Harry Clark
A Murder in the Family – Victor Wolfson
Nina – Andre Roussin, Adapted by Samuel Taylor
Ramshackle Inn – George Batson
The Show-Off – George Kelly
Theater – Somerset Maugham

1953

Affairs of State – Louis Verneuil
Bell, Book and Candle – John Van Druten
Bunty Pulls the Strings – Graham Moffat
Gigi – Anita Loos
Jane – Somerset Maugham
The Marquise – Noël Coward
Mister Roberts – Thomas Reagan and Joshua Logan
The Moon Is Blue – F. Hugh Herbert
The Tender Trap – Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith
The Three-Toed Pony – Sidney Howard
The Velvet Glove – Rosemary Casey
You Never Can Tell – George Bernard Shaw

1954

Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas
A Dash of Bitters – Reginald Denham
Ethan Frome – Owen and Donald Davis, Adapted From the novel by Edith Wharton
The Fourposter – Jan de Hartog
The Ghost Train – Arnold Ridley
The Iron Gate – John T. Chapman
Late Love – Rosemary Casey
Madam Will You Walk? – Sidney Howard
My Three Angels – Sam and Bella Spewack
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Three’s A Family – Phoebe and Henry Ephron
Traveller’s Joy – Arthur MacRae
The White Sheep of the Family – L. duGarde Peach and Ian Hay

1955

Caine Mutiny Court Martial – Herman Wouk
Dial M For Murder – Frederick Knott
Edward My Son – Robert Morley and Noel Langley
O Mistress Mine – Terence Rattigan
The Old Maid – Edith Wharton
Reclining Figure – Harry Kurnitz
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker – Liam O’Brien
Sabrina Fair – Samuel Taylor
Shadow and Substance – Paul Vincent Carroll
The Tender Trap – Max Shulman and Robert Paul Smith
Time Out for Ginger – Ronald Alexander

1956

Anastasia – Marcelle Maurette, Adapted by Guy Bolton
The Good Fairy – Ferenc Molnár
The Happy Time – Samuel Taylor
Heartbreak House – George Bernard Shaw
The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman
Made In Heaven – Hagar Wilde
A Roomful of Roses – Edith Sommer Soderbag
The Seven Year Itch – George Axelrod
The Solid Gold Cadillac – Howard Teichman and George S. Kaufman
The Wayward Saint – Paul Vincent Carroll

1957

Androcles and the Lion – George Bernard Shaw
Bus Stop – William Inge
Charm – John Kirkpatrick
The Great Sebastians – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Janus – Carolyn Green
King of Hearts – Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke
Oh Men! Oh Women! – Edward Chodorov
The Potting Shed – Graham Greene
The Reluctant Debutante – William Douglas Home
Time Limit – Henry Denker and Ralph Berkey

1958

The Cocktail Party – T.S. Eliot
The Constant Wife – Somerset Maugham
The Cradle Song – Martines Sierra
The Matchmaker – Thornton Wilder
The Mousetrap – Agatha Christie
Noah – Andre Obey, Adapted by Arthur Wilmurt
No Time For Sergeants – Ira Levin, Based on the novel by Mac Hyman
The Playboy of the Western World – John Millington Synge
Separate Tables – Terence Rattigan
Visit to a Small Planet – Gore Vidal

1959

The Boy Friend – Sandy Wilson
Compulsion – Meyer Levin
Darkness at Noon – Sidney Kingsley, Based on the novel by Albert Koestler
Diary of Anne Frank – Dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
The Lady’s Not For Burning – Christopher Fry
Man and Superman – George Bernard Shaw
Once More With Feeling – Harry Kurmits
Picnic – William Inge
Time Remembered – Jean Anouilh

1960-1969

1960

Angel Street – Patrick Hamilton
Dear Charles – Alan Melville
Dear Miss Phoebe – Sir James M. Barrie, Adapted by Christopher Hassell/Music by Harry Parr Davies
The Gazebo – Alec Coppel
The Happiest Days of Your Life – John Dighton
Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Misalliance – George Bernard Shaw
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
The Waltz of the Toreadors – Jean Anouilh
Witness for the Prosecution – Agatha Christie

1961

Arsenic and Old Lace – Joseph Kesserling
Between Seasons – Malcolm Wells
Breath Of Spring – Peter Coke
Invitation to a March – Arthur Laurents
The Marriage-Go-Round – Leslie Stevens
Roar Like A Dove – Lesley Stevens
South Pacific – Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Suzannah and the Elders – James Bridie
Teahouse of the August Moon – John Patrick
Ten Little Indians – Agatha Christie

1962

Critic’s Choice – Ira Levin
The King and I – Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein, Music by Richard Rodgers
Life with Father – Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
Miss Lucy – Irene Gawne
Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie
Pleasure of his Company – Samuel Taylor
See How They Run – Philip King
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Under the Yum Yum Tree – Lawrence Roman
You Never Know – Cole Porter

1963

The Cat and the Canary – John Willard
The Corn is Green – Kalyn Williams
The Grass is Greener – Hugh & Margaret Williams
Lady Audley’s Secret or Who Pushed George – Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Adapted by Joan White, Music and Lyrics by Anna Russell
Little Mary Sunshine – Rick Besoyan
Pajama Game – Richard Bissell and George Abbott, Music and Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
A Shot in the Dark – Marcel Archard

1964

As You Like It – William Shakespeare
Come Blow Your Horn – Neil Simon
Guys and Dolls – Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Adapted from the stories of Damon Runyon, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Journey to Bahia – Dias Gomes, Adapted by Stanley Richards
My Fair Lady – Book and Lyrics by Alan J. Lerner, Adapted from George Bernard Shaw, Music by Frederick Loewe
Night Must Fall – Emlyn Williams
The Silver Cord – Sidney Howard
The Time of the Cuckoo – Arthur Laurents

1965

Carnival – Book by Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics by Bob Merrill
Cheri and the Last of the Cherry – Paul Giovanni and Viveca Lindfors, Adapted from Colette
Duel of Angels – Jean Giraudoux, Translated by Christopher Fry
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Book by Bert Shevelov and Larry Gelbart, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
La Ronde – Arthur Schnitzler, Translated by Eric Bentley
Three-Penny Opera – Bertolt Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill, English adaptation by Marc Blitztein

1966

The Cretan Woman – Robinson Jeffers
Fragments – Murray Schisgal
The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
The Skin of our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

1967

Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? – Don Peterson
Dracula – Hamilton Deane and John Balderston, Based on the Novel by Bram Stoker
The Exercise – John Lewis Carlino
The Magistrate – Arthur Wing Pinero
Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams

1968

Adaptation – Elaine May
A Cry of Players – William Gibson
The Cuban Thing – Jack Gelber
A Matter of Position – Elaine May
Next – Terrence McNally

1969

Encounters – Wally Harper and Paul Zakrsowski
Hunger and Thirst – Eugène Ionesco
John and Abigail – William Gibson
Timon’s Beach – Gordon Rogoff

1970-1979

1970

The Christmas Dinner – William Devane
The Enemy is Dead – Don Peterson
The Fable of the Sun People – Ernest L. West, Jr.
Other People – Thomas Berger
A Passage to E.M. Forster – Arranged By William Roerick and Thomas Coley
Postscript – Merritt Abrash

1971

Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been Blue? – Leslie Weiner
The Goodbye People – Herb Gardner
The Rainmaker – N. Richard Nash
Promenade, All! – David V. Robinson and Richard Backus
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? – Terrence McNally

1972

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little – Paul Zindel
Clark and Myrna – Elliott Baker
The Contrast – Royall Tyler, Adapted by Antony Stimas, Music by Don Pippin, Lyrics by Steven Brown
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel

1973

Crystal, Crystal Chandeliers – Lawrence Roman
The Gershwin Years
The Gingerbread Lady – Neil Simon
Summer Brave – William Inge

1974

Cages – John Lewis Carline
Colette – Adapted by Elinor Jones from Colette, Music by Harvey Schmidt, Lyrics by Tom Jones
Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder – Mark Medoff

1975

The Butterfingers Angel – William Gibson
Come and Be Killed – Lionel Wilson
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury, Adapted by Peter John Bailey
Godspell – Conceived by John-Michael Tebelak, Music by Stephen Schwartz

1976

George Washington Slept Here – George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Ho, Ho, Ho – Ruth Gordon
The Lion in Winter – James Goldman
Of Thee I Sing – Book by George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind, Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin

1977

Broadway – Philip Dunning and George Abbott
Come Back, Little Sheba – William Inge
I Married an Angel – Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
The Last Analysis – Saul Bellow

1978

The Children’s Hour – Lillian Hellman
Dodsworth – Sinclair Lewis, Dramatized by Sidney Howard
Disciple of Discontent – John L. Lewis
Let ‘Em Eat Cake – Book by George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind, Music by George Gershwin, Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Vagabond Stars – Nahma Sandrow and Sllan Albert

1979

The Butter and the Egg Man – George S. Kaufman
Carnival – Book By Michael Stewart, Music and Lyrics By Bob Merrill
The Petrified Forest – Robert Sherwood
The Rose Tattoo – Tennessee Williams

1980-1989

1980

Anyone Can Whistle – Book by Arthur Laurents, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
First Lady – Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
The Little Foxes – Lillian Hellman
The Rainmaker – N. Richard Nash

1981

House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
A Safe Place – Carol K. Mack
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
A View from the Bridge – Arthur Miller

1982

The Animal Kingdom – Philip John Barry
The Palace of Amateurs – John Faro PiRoman
Sunrise at Campobello – Dore Schary
A Thousand Clowns – Herb Gardner

1983

The Belle of Amherst – William Luce
The Big Knife – Clifford Odets
Fanny – Book by S.N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, Music and Lyrics by Harold Rome
Harvey – Mary Chase
The Vinegar Tree – Paul Osborn

1984

High Spirits – Music, Book and Lyrics by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray, Based on “Blithe Spirit” – by Noël Coward
A Loss of Roses – William Inge
Miss Lulu Bett – Zona Gale
Sabrina Fair – Samuel A. Taylor

1985

Beyond Therapy – Christopher Durang
Caught – Bernard M. Kahn
Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers
Paris Bound – Philip Barry

1986

All the Way Home – Tad Mosel based on “A Death In The Family” by James Agee
A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee
A Little Night Music – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
Visit To A Small Planet – Gore Vidal

1987

The Boys Next Door – Tom Griffin
I Never Sang for My Father – Robert Anderson
No Time for Comedy – S.N. Behrman
Portrait of Jennie – Adaptation by Enid Futterman and Dennis Rosa, Music by Howard Marre, Lyrics by Enid Futterman

1988

The Chalk Garden – Enid Bagnold
The Price – Arthur Miller
Stepping Out – Richard Harris
Tusitala – James Prideaux

1989

Betrayal – Harold Pinter
Lute Song – Sidney Howard and Will Irwin
The Middle Ages – A.R. Gurney
Tete A Tete – Ralph Burdman

1990-1999

1990

Breaking Legs – Tom Dulack
The Hasty Heart – John Patrick
She Loves Me – Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
The Road To Mecca – Athol Fugard

1991

California Suite – Neil Simon
Kiss Me Kate – Book and Lyrics by Samuel Spewack, Music by Cole Porter
The Real Thing – Tom Stoppard
Trains – Barbara Lebow

1992

Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Richard Maltby, Jr. and Fats Waller
Quartermaine’s Terms – Simon Gray
The Cocktail Hour – A.R. Gurney
Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas

Main Stage

Blithe Spirit – Noël Coward
Breaking the Code – Hugh Whitemore
Camping With Henry and Tom – Mark St. Germain
Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen – Conceived by Julianne Boyd, Music by Harold Arlen

Unicorn Theatre

Amphitryon – Heinrich von Kleist
Love and Anger – George Walker
Mississippi Nude – John Reeves

Main Stage

Brimstone – Mary Bracken Philips and Patrick Meegan
Two for the Seesaw – William Gibson
Breaking the Silence – Stephen Poliakoff
Golf With Alan Shepard – Carter Lewis

Unicorn Theatre

The Baltimore Waltz – Paula Vogel
The Game of Love and Chance – Marivaux
Mad Forest – Caryl Churchill

Main Stage

Cowgirls – Mary Murfitt and Betsy Howie
The Fox – Alan Miller
Kafka’s Wick – Allan Bennett
13 Rue de l’Amour – Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert

Unicorn Theatre

Four Dogs and a Bone – John Patrick Shanley
The Illusion – Tony Kushner
Keely and Du – Jane Martin

Main Stage

Free Fall – Marc Alan Zagoren and Sandy Duncan
Hay Fever – Noël Coward
Jitta’s Atonement – George Bernard Shaw
Visiting Mr. Green – Jeff Baron

Unicorn Theatre

L-Play – Beth Henley

Main Stage

Four of a Kind – Anton Chekhov
Good Company – Sheldon Harnick
Over the River and Through the Woods – Joe Di Pietro
Woman in Mind – Alan Ayckbourn

Unicorn Theatre

Quills – Doug Wright
Wilder, Wilder – Thornton Wilder

Main Stage

Desire Under the Elms – Eugene O’Neill
An Empty Plate in the Café Du Grand Boeuf – Michael Hollinger
High Spirits – Music, Lyrics and Book by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray,Based on ‘Blithe Spirit’ by Noël Coward
Transit of Venus – Maureen Hunter

Unicorn Theatre

Life’s A Dream – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The End of the World – Roman Paska
Secret Lives Of The Sexists – Charles Ludlam

Main Stage

The Crucifer of Blood – Paul Giovanni
Moby Dick - Rehearsed – Orson Wells
The Batting Cage – Joan Ackermann
Lives of the Saints – David Ives

Unicorn Theatre

Love’s Fire – Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange, Wendy Wasserstein
Shoot the Piano Player – Richard Corley
Conviction – Eve Ensler
Starr’s Last Tape – Richard Lingeman and Victor Navasky

2000-2010

Main Stage

Camelot – Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederic Lowe
Toys in the Attic – Lillian Hellman
The Shadow of Greatness – Gary Socol
Say Yes! – Wally Harper and Sherman Yellen

Unicorn Theatre

Best Kept Secret, A Dangerous Liaison in the Cold War – Katherine Houghton
Coyote on a Fence – Bruce Graham
The Einstein Project – Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein

Main Stage

H.M.S. Pinafore – by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Awake and Sing! – by Clifford Odets
The Smell of the Kill – by Michele Lowe
My Fair Lady – Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe

Unicorn Theatre

This is Our Youth – by Kenneth Lonergan
A Dream Play – by August Strindberg
Pound of Flesh – by Michael Bolus

Theatre for Young Audiences

Alice in Wonderland – by Lewis Carroll, Adapted by Gray Simons
Just So Stories – Written by Rudyard Kipling, Adapted by Gray Simons

Main Stage

Zorba – Book by Joseph Stein; Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Quartet – by Ronald Harwood
A Saint She Ain’t – Book and Lyrics by Dick Vosburgh; Music by Denis King
The Foreigner – by Larry Shue

Unicorn Theatre

Dimetos – by Athol Fugard
Miss Julie – by August Strindberg
Holding History: Insurrection – by Robert O’Hara
Brownstone – by Josh Rubins, Peter Larson, Andrew Cadiff

Theatre for Young Audiences

Monkey – Adapted from the Chinese Folktale by Gray Simons
The Magic Flute – Adapted from Mozart by Gray Simons

Main Stage

Enter Laughing – by Joseph Stein, Adapted from the novel by Carl Reiner
The Stillborn Lover – by Timothy Findley
Talley’s Folly – by Lanford Wilson
Peter Pan – by J.M.Barrie, A new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn

Unicorn Theatre

American Primitive – William Gibson
Nijinsky’s Last Dance – by Norman Allen
The Who’s Tommy – Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Assassins – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by John Weidman

Main Stage

Blues for an Alabama Sky – by Pearl Cleage
Heartbreak House – by George Bernard Shaw
The Miracle Worker – by William Gibson
The Misanthrope – by Molière, Translated by Richard Wilbur

Unicorn Theatre

Floyd Collins - Music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, Book by Tina Landau
Herman Hesses’s Siddhartha, A Jungian Fantasy – Adapted from the Novel by Eric Hill
Eugene’s Home – by Kathy Levin Shapiro
It Goes Without Saying – Written by Bill Bowers

Main Stage

Side by Side by Sondheim - Stephen Sondheim
Equus - Peter Shaffer
American Buffalo - David Mamet
Souvenir - Stephen Temperley

Unicorn Theatre

I Do! I Do! - Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt
The Father - August Strindberg, Translated, adapted by Anders Cato
Rat in the Skull - Ron Hutchinson
My Buddy Bill - Rick Cleveland

Theatre for Young Audiences

Nursery Rhyme Cafe - E. Gray Simons II

Main Stage

Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
Coastal Disturbances – Tina Howe
The Night of the Iguana – Tennessee Williams
The Heidi Chronicles – Wendy Wasserstein

Unicorn Theatre

The Illusion – Pierre Corneille, adapted by Tony Kushner
Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? – Terrence McNally
The Pilgrim Papers – Stephen Temperley
Via Dolorosa – David Hare
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

Mystery Sideshow 3…Way Out West – E. Gray Simons III
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
The Wizard of Oz – book and music by L. Frank Baum

Main Stage

Love! Valour! Compassion! - Terrence McNally
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest - Dale Wasserman
Morning’s At Seven - Paul Osborn
Mrs. Warren’s Profession - George Bernard Shaw

Unicorn Theatre

The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
My Pal George - Rick Cleveland (Workshop Production)
Two-Headed - Julie Jensen
Educating Rita - Willy Russell
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

Cinderella - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Alice In Wonderland - adapted by E. Gray Simons III
Aesop’s Network: Broadcasting Theatrical Fables - adapted by E. Gray Simons III

Main Stage

Candida - George Bernard Shaw
The Book Club Play - Karen Zacarias
A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
Noël Coward in Two Keys - Sir Noël Coward

Unicorn Theatre

The Caretaker - Harold Pinter
Pageant Play - Mark Setlock and Matthew Wilkas
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Eleanor: Her Secret Journey - Rhoda Lerman
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

Hercules - E. Gray Simons III
Around the World in 80 Days –Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne
Oliver! – book, music, and lyrics by Lionel Bart. Based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Main Stage

Broadway by the Year - Scott Siegel
The Einstein Project - Paul D’Andrea and Jon Klein
The Prisoner of Second Avenue - Neil Simon
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Anders Cato and James Leverett

Unicorn Theatre

Faith Healer - Brian Friel
Candide - Music by Leonard Bernstein, book by Hugh Wheeler
Sick - Zayd Dohrn
Red Remembers - Andrew Gerhart
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

The Wind in the Willows - adapted by E. Gray Simons
Peter Pan: The Musical - based on the play by J. M. Barrie

2010-2016

Main Stage

The Last Five Years - Composed and Written by Jason Robert Brown
The Guardsman - Ferenc Molnár, translated by Grace I. Colbron & Hans Bartsch
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
A Delicate Balance - Edward Albee

Unicorn Theatre

K2 - Patrick Meyers
Endgame - Samuel Beckett
Babes in Arms - Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Lorenz Hart, Book by George Oppenheimer
No Wake - William Donnelly
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

The Mummy’s Tale and other stories from the Great Beyond - E. Gray Simons
Annie - Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Martin Charnin

Fitzpatrick Main Stage

Sylvia - A.R. Gurney
In the Mood - Kathleen Clark
Period of Adjustment - Tennessee Williams

Unicorn Theatre

Moonchildren - Michael Weller
Dutch Masters - Greg Keller
Finian's Rainbow - music by Burton Lane, book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
Birthday Boy - Chris Newbound

Colonial Theatre

The Who's Tommy - music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff, additional music and lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Neil Ellenoff Stage

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - by the Brothers Grimm, adapted by Eric Hill

Fitzpatrick Main Stage

A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner
Edith - Kelly Masterson
Brace Yourself - David Epstein

Unicorn Theatre

The Puppetmaster of Lodz - Gilles Segal
A Class Act - music and lyrics by Edward Kleban, book by Linda Kline and Lonny Price
Homestead Crossing - William Donnelly

Colonial Theatre

A Chorus Line - book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Neil Ellenoff Stage

Pinocchio - by Carlo Collodi, adapted by E. Gray Simons III

Fitzpatrick Main Stage

The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade
Anna Christie - Eugene O'Neil

Unicorn Theatre

The Jewish Jester: A Fable with Music - Daniel Klein
Extremities - William Mastrosimone
The Cat and The Canary - John Willard
Mary and Edith: Musings by Women a Century Apart - by Mary Mott ("From Where I Sit" segment) and Edith Wharton ("Roman Fever" segment, adapted by Eric Hill)

Colonial Theatre

Oklahoma! - Music by Richard Rodgers, Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Neil Ellenoff Stage

Just So Stories - by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by E. Gray Simons III

Theatre for Young Audiences

Peter Pan - Music by Mark "Moose" Charlap and Jule Styne, Lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, adapted from the play and novel by J. M. Barrie

Fitzpatrick Main Stage

The Mystery of Irma Vep - Charles Ludlam
Cedars - Erik Tarloff
A Hatful of Rain - Michael V. Gazzo

Unicorn Theatre

Benefactors - Michael Frayn
Design For Living - Noël Coward
Opera Weekend ("A Lover's Tale," "A Staged Presentation of 'La Traviata,'" "The Paris Salon") - Alexandre Dumas, Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Ludlam
Poe - Eric Hill

Colonial Theatre

A Little Night Music - Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

Seussical - Music and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, based on the books of Dr. Seuss

Fitzpatrick Main Stage

Death Trap - Ira Levin
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune - Terrence McNally

Unicorn Theatre

Masha's Seagull - Justin Scheuer
Thoreau or, Return to Walden - David Adkins
I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile - Suzanne Heathcote
The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

Colonial Theatre

Bells Are Ringing - Music by Jule Styne, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
The Club - Book, lyrics, and music by Eve Merriam
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

Mary Poppins - Music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, George Stiles, and Anthony Drewe, book by Julian Fellowes, based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film

Fitzpatrick Main Stage

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
The Stone Witch - Steve Zuckerman

Unicorn Theatre

Fiorello! - Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott
Constellations - Nick Payne
The Bakelite Masterpiece - Kate Cayley

Colonial Theatre

Little Shop of Horrors - Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens, adapted by Eric Hill

Theatre for Young Audiences

Beauty and The Beast - Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton

Education

BTF education programming, which started in 1929 with one of the first summer apprentice training programs in the United States, is part of the lives of thousands of students annually, and though it has experienced many incarnations, it has never faltered in its commitment to educating the emerging artists of each decade.

BTF PLAYS!— a school residency program for 4-6 graders—is part of the curriculum in nine Berkshire county schools. It was designed to give voice to young student's stories through playwriting. Staffed by professional artists-in-residence, the program is priced low enough for public schools to afford and teaches young people how to communicate their thoughts and feelings through playwriting, storytelling, and performance. Each summer, the theatre’s Summer Performance Training Program, works with up to 15 performing arts students between 18-25. The program produces two plays that are seen by more than 10,000 young people throughout July and August. The BTF’s Touring Component, part of the school residency program, also performs for many additional schools and museums throughout western Massachusetts each year.

Berkshire Theatre Group seeks students who are willing to work hard, and are serious about preparing themselves for a career in the theatre arts. The highly regarded Summer Performance Training Apprentice Program offers 16 students from all over the country a multifaceted approach to actor training with a strong emphasis on voice and movement. Students are vital members of the BTG community, rehearsing and performing, taking classes each day in a wide range of performance techniques, and presenting reviews and cabaret performances. The basic focus of the program is on improving the actors' skills and depth of experience.

Notable Artists

Buster Keaton
Ethel Barrymore
Thornton Wilder
Calista Flockhart
Christopher Walken in The Rain Maker
Al Pacino in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie (1967)
Dustin Hoffman in Fragments (1966)
Gene Hackman in Fragments (1966)
Karen Allen
Linda Hamilton
Jeffrey Donovan in Toys in the Attic (2000)
Randy Harrison in Equus, Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Waiting for Godot, Ghosts, The Endgame, and The Who's Tommy Kate Baldwin A Little Night Music (2014)

References

↑ http://www.berkshireweb.com/culture/index.html
↑ http://www.berkshiretheatre.org/history/index.php
↑ National Register of Historic Places

External links

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