Barrington Stage Company’s Pay-What-You-Can for Patrons 35 and Younger Continues

Posted by Gail M. Burns - June 2010

Barrington Stage Company’s Pay What You Can
for Patrons 35 and Younger Continues for Third Year

2010 Season kicks off at Stage 2, Tuesday, June 8 at 7:30pm The Whipping Man
More Than 300 Young People Participated During First Two Years

( Pittsfield , MA ) June 4, 2010 – Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Richard M. Parison, Jr., Producing Director, continues its successful Pay What You Can initiative to reach out to a younger audience by offering theatre tickets at a price they can truly afford. Pay What You Can (PWYC) Nights for people 35 and younger offer tickets for a minimum price of $10 for one performance at Barrington Stage’s Mainstage and Stage 2 productions this season.

Implemented two seasons ago, the PWYC program was designed to provide an exciting theatrical experience that would bring young people into the theatre at an affordable price. Since its inception, more than 300 young people have participated in the Pay What You Can program. Any person age 35 or younger can show up at the Box Office the night of the performance and purchase a ticket for a minimum of $10 beginning one hour before curtain. Following the Mainstage PWYC performances, attendees are invited to a post-show party in the lobby which includes music and inexpensive beer, wine and food from local restaurants.

Dates for the 2010 season are as follows:

Mainstage
 Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheelers’ Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Wednesday, June 30 at 7pm
 Yasmina Reza’s Art: Friday, July 30 at 8pm
 Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular: Friday, August 20 at 8pm
 Arthur Miller’s The Crucible: Friday, October 8 at 8pm
Stage 2
 Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man: Tuesday, June 8 at 7:30pm
 Nikos Tsakalakos and Janet Allard’s Pool Boy: Friday, July 16 at 7:30pm
 Sara Cooper and Zachary Redler’s The Memory Show: Thursday, August 26 at 7:30pm

Pay What You Can performances are just one of Barrington Stage’s many Ways to Save. Other special offers include low-priced tickets to the first two Preview performances at the Mainstage ($15 and $20) and Stage 2 (all tickets $15). Youth and Students (with a valid I.D.) may purchase $15 tickets to all Mainstage and Stage 2 performances, excluding Saturday evenings May-August and Special Events. Mainstage matinees are offered to Seniors for $35 and Stage 2 matinees are just $20 for Seniors.

About Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company, a professional award-winning Equity theatre located in the heart of the Berkshires, in Pittsfield , MA , was co-founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. Barrington Stage’s mission is three-fold: to present top-notch, compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways to bringing new audiences into the theatre—especially young people. Barrington Stage garnered national attention with William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s Tony Award-winning musical hit “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which began as a workshop at Barrington Stage in February 2004, was produced in its world premiere to critical acclaim that summer, and later transferred to Broadway’s Circle-in-the-Square Theatre where it played more than 1,000 performances. For more information, log on to www.barringtonstageco.org.

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