Shaker Mill Inn
May 5, 20202 min
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these unprecedented times. We hope to open back up to the public as quickly as we can, but until then, we will keep you updated on the businesses in our community.
We just learned this week that the Barrington Stage Company is postponing their 2020 summer season until 2021. However, they do want to provide an "alternate" season that follows social distancing guidelines to ensure the safety of the general public.
Here are more details:
The Mainstage theatre, we will be reducing capacity to a third of the available 520 seats to accommodate SD seating (please see map).
Beginning August 5, Mark H. Dold will star in David Cale’s one-man show, Harry Clarke. The Mainstage will also host a Monday Night Concert Series, featuring jazz and cabaret singer Marilyn Maye (August 24), and singer/songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway performing “The Linda Ronstadt Songbook,” with Billy Stritch at the piano (August 31).
On September 5, the Mainstage will host a reading of Eleanor, a new one-woman play about the life of Eleanor Roosevelt by BSC Associate Artist Mark St. Germain, starring Tony Award-winner Harriet Harris (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella),
The enormously popular 10x10 New Play Festival (September 9–20).The Price, by Arthur Miller, will play October 1–18, both will go on as scheduled.
In anticipation of South Pacific in 2021, they will present South Pacific: In Concert (August 21–23) at an outdoor venue in Pittsfield. These outdoor performances, which will also employ all social distancing practices being implemented at the Mainstage.
Additional information on all of these performances and the best practices of socially distanced seating can be found their our website here. The box office is now open for 2020 sales and will be available by phone or email Monday, 10am–3pm, and Tuesday–Friday, 10am–5pm. The box office will remain closed for in-person transactions until further notice. You can find more information about the box office here.