Great Barrington Public Theater has announced that Judy Braha will join Jim Frangione as Artistic Director. Braha currently serves as Associate Artistic Director and has expanded the theater’s Berkshires Voices playwright development program. The appointment marks a new phase of leadership for the Berkshires-based theater.
Great Barrington Public Theater has announced the first new work to be presented as part of its latest Berkshire Voices program, Stepping Up: Plays in Development.
Great Barrington Public Theater has announced new reading of Mark St. Germain's latest play, Amchitka. All proceeds from the reading will go to support GB Public's legacy of New Work and its playwriting development program.
Great Barrington Public Theater begins its new talkback series entitled “Chat GBPT” this summer season. The first “Chat GBPT” will take place on June 7th, following the 3pm matinee of How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos and will feature playwright Maggie Kearnan and director Clay Hopper with GB Public Artistic Director Jim Frangione moderating.
Shakespeare & Company has unveiled the final productions rounding out its 2025 season, including the regional premiere of Paula Vogel’s Mother Play: a play in five evictions, a new family-friendly Shakespearean circus experience, and the return of its Plays in Process and winter programming.
Shakespeare & Company has revealed its remaining titles of Season 2025, including Circus & The Bard, co-created by Allyn Burrows, Robin Eldridge, and Pedro Reis; Mother Play: a play in five evictions by Paul Vogel. Learn more here!
The Great Barrington Public Theater Annual Benefit will take place in June at Saint James Place. This year’s honoree and recipient of the 2025 Black Bear Award will be Tristan Wilson.
Great Barrington Public Theater has cast its final show of the 2025 Summer Season. Caroline Aaron, from the hit Amazon series, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, will take the stage in Robin Gerber's latest solo show, The Best Medicine.
Great Barrington Public Theater has announced the cast of its first commissioned work, Madame Mozart, the Lacrimosa, by Anne Undeland. Longtime audience members of GB Public will recognize the piece from its first staged reading in Season 2023.
Great Barrington Public Theater has fully cast its first show of the Summer 2025 season. How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos is a world premiere production by up and coming playwright Maggie Kearnan.
For its final installment of the 2025 Off-Season “Conversations With” Series, Great Barrington Public Theater will host a free online Zoom discussion on Gender Expansion in Contemporary Theater.
In an update to the season lineup, Great Barrington Public Theater has announced a pivot, showcasing a season of female playwrights taking the stage at Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon's Rock.
Following its most successful season on record, Great Barrington Public Theater is launchig into 2025 with a full lineup of new works, all written by Massachusetts playwrights. Learn more.
After its record-breaking 2024 Summer Season, Great Barrington Public continues to engage Berkshire audiences with the second year of live, sit-down conversations with theater artists and theater influencers in the Berkshires and beyond.
As we filed out after after the two acts (with one intermission) in about two hours, that was well – done and solid was more-or-less my simple, surface level impression and take away. Over the course of the next 24 or so hours, however, something of a metaphysical metamorphosis took place in me. It became so much more.
Shakespeare & Company and Great Barrington Public Theater will present FLIGHT OF THE MONARCH. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.
Experience an immersive cabaret with NIGHT AT THE SPEAKEASY presented by Great Barrington Public Theater from July 26 to August 11. Enjoy a unique blend of theater and live music in an intimate setting.
Great Barrington Public Theater will present the world premiere of SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT from July 6-21.
The Triplex Cinema and Great Barrington Public Theater have announced a special screening of the recent film Freud’s Last Session based on the Mark St. Germain play that originally premiered in 2009 at the Barrington Stage Company.
GB Public will present a Conversation with Neil Pepe, influential Artistic Director of the Atlantic Theater Company. All are welcome to join the FREE event, Monday, February 26th, 6pm, St. James Place, Great Barrington.
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