Half Tix for Berkshires summer performing arts

Barrington Stage Company and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau are partnering again on the ½ TIX program that allows patrons to buy same-day half-priced tickets to cultural events at area ½ TIX Booths June 15 through September 2, 2012.

The 12 cultural venues participating in the 2012 ½ TIX Program are:

• Barrington Stage Company,
• Berkshire Choral Festival,
• The Berkshire Fringe,
• Berkshire Theatre Group,
• The Capitol Steps at Cranwell Resort,
• Jacob’s Pillow Dance,
• Mac-Haydn Theatre,
• Shakespeare & Company,
• Tanglewood,
• Theater Barn
• Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Half Tix will be sold at five locations

Half Tix will be sold at five locations this season, including a new north county location at MASS MoCA: Barrington Stage Company Box Office (30 Union Street, Pittsfield), Chatham Book Store (27 Main Street, Chatham, NY), Lenox Visitors Center (at the Lenox Library, 18 Main St., Lenox), MASS MoCA (87 Marshall Street, North Adams) and Triplex Cinema (70 Railroad Street, Great Barrington).

The five ½ TIX booths will operate from June 15 through September 2, 2012 from noon until 4:30pm, Tuesday through Sunday (closed Monday). Patrons seeking information about daily performance availability and general ½ TIX information should call the ½ TIX Hotline at 413-743-1339 or visit www.berkshires.org – updated daily by 11am. Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis and all transactions are cash only. All tickets are subject to availability and all participants are subject to change.

For questions about ½ TIX, please contact Linda Beach, Operations Manager at the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, 413-743-4500 or lbeach@berkshires.org or Laura Roudabush, Director of Marketing at Barrington Stage, 413-499-5446 x109 or lroudabush@barringtonstageco.org.