our 2026 season
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday August 26th, 7:00pm
A reading from Our Young Collaborators: good work
Written by Marlo Alexander and Bo-Violet Vig
Directed by Taylor Slonaker
About The Play:
It’s opening night of Noa’s brutally personal, autobiographical one-woman show about the intersection of sex and acting—and despite everyone’s certainty that it’s going to be a huge success, she’s no longer sure she has any idea what she’s talking about. The closer Noa gets to taking the stage, the more the boundaries of her closest relationships (both artistic and personal) begin to blur and collapse around her. Set within the claustrophobic world of a prestigious collegiate acting program, Good Work is equal parts evisceration of and love letter to art school culture and the precarious dynamics it cultivates: an acerbically funny, sickeningly revealing examination of what it means to seek truth within artifice.
*This reading is FREE to the public
and will be held in The Great Hall at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, MA
Thursday, August 27, 5:30 pm
2026 ArtsAlive! at CHESTERWOOD
An Evening of Ten Minute Plays: Presented by Great Barrington Public Theater
Ten-Minute Plays are a unique theatrical form; a complete story, a whole world conjured by a writer, spinning out in ten short minutes. Great Barrington Public Theater brings six very different short play readings by 5 talented Berkshire writers to Chesterwood for a delightful evening of comedy, song and a few wildcards (Members: $27, Non-members: $30).
*Please Note: This event will be held at Chesterwood, NOT Saint James Place.
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About Great Barrington Public
Great Barrington Public Theater was established in 2019 to create opportunities for theater artists and theater lovers in the Berkshires.
We spotlight the many top playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and technicians in our towns and neighboring areas. We present compelling, provocative new plays that leap off the stage, throughout the summer and throughout the year at Saint James Place, located in Great Barrington, MA .