FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
BSC Press Director Charlie Siedenburg, 551-655-0968
½ TIX PROGRAM KICKS OFF ON
SATURDAY, JUNE 15 AT FOUR BERKSHIRE LOCATIONS
Half-Priced Ticket Booths Offer Tickets to 13 Performing Arts Venues
PITTSFIELD (June 14, 2013) – Barrington Stage Company and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau are excited to offer ½ TIX again in 2013, a program administered through a partnership between the two organizations. Now celebrating its 12th year, the ½ TIX program offers half-priced tickets to residents and visitors in the Berkshire community. Patrons can buy same-day half-priced tickets to cultural events at four area ½ TIX Booths beginning June 15 through September 1, 2013.
The 13 cultural venues participating in the 2013 ½ TIX Program are: Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Choral Festival, The Berkshire Fringe, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Berkshire Theatre Group, The Capitol Steps at Cranwell Resort, Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Mac-Haydn Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Tanglewood, Theater Barn, The Wharton Salon, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
1/2 TIX will be sold at four locations this season, including a new north county location at MASS MoCA: Barrington Stage Company Box Office (30 Union Street, Pittsfield), 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 four ½ TIX booths will operate from June 15 through September 1, 2013, Tuesday through Sunday from 12noon until 4:30pm (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. There is an additional $3.00 handling charge per ticket. 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.
About Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company, a professional award-winning Equity regional 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 in 2004 when it workshopped, and premiered William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which later transferred to Broadway, where it won two Tony Awards. In 2009/2010 Barrington Stage produced the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session, which later moved Off-Broadway and played for two years. Barrington Stage was voted “Best Live Theatre” by The Berkshire Eagle readers in 2011 and 2012 and was named “Best Theatre Company” in Metroland’s Best of the Capital Region 2009-2012.
About Berkshire Visitors Bureau
The Berkshire Visitors Bureau is the official destination marketing organization for Berkshire County, representing more than 680 area businesses. The Bureau is dedicated to promoting the Berkshires as a premiere year-round travel destination and providing free, comprehensive information to maximize visitor spending in the region. Membership is open to any business that benefits directly or indirectly from Berkshire tourism.