Barrington Stage Company’s 2016 summer season schedule includes Mainstage productions of American Son, The Pirates of Penzance, Tribes, and Camping with Henry and Tom. The BSC Mainstage season runs June 17 through October 23, 2016. Plays during 2016 at BSC’s St. Germain Stage will be Presto Change-O, Kimberly Akimbo, peerless, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love Letters. BSC productions take place in Downtown Pittsfield in the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, St. Germain Stage; their Youth Theatre venue for The Wiz, running July 27 – August 14, 2016, will be announced.
Barrington Stage Company Mainstage – AMERICAN SON – June 17 – July 19, 2016
- AMERICAN SON – WORLD PREMIERE
- By Christopher Demos-Brown
- Directed by Julianne Boyd
- June 17 – July 9
Winner of the prestigious Laurents/Hatcher Award for Best New Play of 2016, this explosive new drama examines our nation’s racial divide through the eyes of an estranged, interracial couple. Over the course of one evening, the couple’s disparate backgrounds collide as they confront an unexpected crisis involving their son, the police, and an abandoned car.
Barrington Stage Company Mainstage – THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE – July 15 – August 13, 2016
- THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
- Music by Arthur Sullivan; Libretto W. S. Gilbert
- Directed by John Rando;
- Choreography by Joshua Bergasse
- July 15 – August 13
With its swashbuckling pirates, innocent lovers, bumbling policemen and a Major-General who sings one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE is sure to be a treat for the whole family. Brought to you by the team that created our production of ON THE TOWN.
Barrington Stage Company Mainstage – TRIBES – August 18 – September 3, 2016
- TRIBES
- By Nina Raine
- Directed by Jenn Thompson
- August 18 – September 3
Winner of the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, TRIBES is a funny, yet moving, and always provocative play about a young man who was born deaf into an unconventional hearing family. It’s not until he meets Sylvia, a young woman on the brink of deafness, that he finally understands what it means to “speak up” for himself.
Barrington Stage Company Mainstage – CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM – October 5 – 23, 2016
- CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM
- By Mark St. Germain
- Directed by Christopher Innvar
- October 5 – 23
In 1921, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Warren G. Harding took a camping trip together into the Maryland woods to escape civilization; what they couldn’t escape was each other. Inspired by an actual event, CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM is an exploration of friendship, politics and leadership—a comedic and dramatic clash of two great minds and one great heart of the twentieth century.
Barrington Stage Company St. Germain Stage – PRESTO CHANGE-O – May 18 – June 11, 2016
- PRESTO CHANGE-O – WORLD PREMIERE
- Choreography by Chris Bailey
- Illusions by Joseph Wartnerchaney
- Directed by Marc Bruni
- May 18 – June 11
This exciting new musical tells the story of three generations of magicians who find themselves under one roof for the first time in years. When the grandfather causes real magic to happen, they must confront their past mistakes and re-examine what it means to be a family.
Barrington Stage Company St. Germain Stage – KIMBERLY AKIMBO – June 16 – July 16, 2016
- KIMBERLY AKIMBO
- By David Lindsay-Abaire
- Directed by Rob Ruggiero
- June 16 – July 16
Starring Debra Jo Rupp and set in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is a hilarious and heartrending play about a teenager with a rare condition causing her body to age faster than normal. When she and her family flee Secaucus under dubious circumstances, Kimberly is forced to reevaluate her life while contending with a hypochondriac mother, a rarely sober father, a scam-artist aunt, her own mortality and, most terrifying of all, the possibility of first love.
Barrington Stage Company St. Germain Stage – peerless- July 21- August 6, 2016
- peerless
- By Jiehae Park
- July 21- August 6
How far would you go to get into the college of your choice? When brilliant, ambitious twin sisters L and M realize that perfect academics and superb extracurricular activities aren’t enough to get into their dream college, they decide to take matters into their own hands. Peerless is a comedy … until it isn’t.
Barrington Stage Company St. Germain Stage – BROADWAY BOUNTY HUNTER – August 12 – September 4, 2016
- BROADWAY BOUNTY HUNTER -WORLD PREMIERE
- Music and Lyrics by Joe Iconis; Book by Joe Iconis, Lance Rubin, and Jason SweetTooth Williams
- Choreography by Jeffrey Page
- Directed by Leah C. Gardiner
- August 12 – September 4
Inspired by the Blaxploitation movies of 1970s, such as SHAFT, this exciting new musical follows 60-ish-year-old, unemployed actor Annie (starring Annie Golden as herself) as she’s asked to become a bounty hunter and capture a South American drug lord. With a score rich with R&B and Funk (and a splash of ’80s Rock ‘n Roll), the musical follows a woman of a certain age as she tries to find the inner strength she needs to save theatre and realize her true badass identity. Pure, unadulterated fun.
Barrington Stage Company St. Germain Stage – LOVE LETTERS – September 22 – October 2, 2016
- LOVE LETTERS
- By A.R. Gurney
- Directed by Julianne Boyd
- September 22 – October 2
Starring Mark H. Dold and Debra Jo Rupp, Love Letters, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is a touching, funny and ultimately moving story of a 50-year old correspondence between two childhood friends whose relationship weathers time and distance.
Barrington Stage Company Youth Theatre – The Wiz – July 27 – August 14, 2016
- The Wiz
- Book by WILLIAM F. BROWN
- Directed and Choreographed by CHRISTINE O’GRADY
- July 27 – August 14
The Wiz is a glorious musical retelling of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with a book by William F. Brown and an infectious, funky and soulful score by Charlie Smalls. The Wiz brings a renewed relevance to a timeless American classic. It’s blazing with high spirits and sizzling with vitality.
Barrington Stage Company box office and ticket info.
- Mainstage: 30 Union Street
- BSC St. Germain Stage: 36 Linden Street (Pittsfield VFW)
- Box Office: 413-236-8888
- Website: barringtonstage.org
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