Barrington Stage Brings 'Driving Miss Daisy' to Williamstown

02:10PM / Thursday, May 14, 2026Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — In a special expansion of its 2026 season, Barrington Stage Company will bring the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Driving Miss Daisy" to Williams College's '62 Center for Theatre and Dance for a two-week summer engagement, June 26 through July 5.

Starring Debra Jo Rupp ("That '70s Show," "Agatha All Along") and Ray Anthony Thomas ("Between Riverside" and "Crazy") and directed by Julianne Boyd, the production extends Barrington Stage's footprint deeper into Berkshire County and brings professional summer theater to Williamstown audiences during a season of transition for the region's cultural landscape.

"We believe the Berkshires deserve a vibrant summer theater season from north to south," said Alan Paul, artistic director. "Bringing 'Driving Miss Daisy' to Williamstown is an opportunity to share a beautiful production with even more audiences while reaffirming our commitment to the entire Berkshire community."

In addition, Barrington Stage announced the return of last season's acclaimed "Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground," starring Tony Award winner John Rubinstein as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The intimate portrait of America's 34th president will return for a limited September engagement on the Boyd-Quinson Stage following its critically acclaimed original run. The production will also be filmed at Barrington Stage.

Just announced: tickets are now on sale for "Vanya," directed by Paul and starring associate artist Mark H. Dold. Running Oct. 8–24, on the Boyd-Quinson Stage, audiences will be seated on the stage for the intimate one-man theatrical event inspired by the works of Anton Chekhov.

Tickets for all productions are now on sale here.

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Williamstown's Gas Supply Is at Capacity, and Economic Development Is at Stake

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com
05:48AM / Monday, September 21, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For more than a decade, town officials have been grappling with how the Village Beautiful can spur economic development.

Last week, the Select Board heard about a major impediment the town can do nothing about.

"Berkshire Gas had reached out to me last week," Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the board during his report at the twice-monthly meeting. "I did meet with them, and they're reaching out to let us know they're out of capacity for Northern Berkshire.

"The pipeline that comes up through North Adams and feeds into us is at its maximum capacity. So there will be no additional installations for the very foreseeable and, probably, distant future."

That means that soon no more new residential or commercial hookups for natural gas will be available in town. And new development is exactly what Williamstown has been hoping to spur, particularly in its population center.

Economic development was the focus of an intensive, yearlong town study in 2015. It has been at the heart of many of the initiatives of the town's Planning Board in recent years. And it has been a rallying cry of the Finance Committee, which has consistently told residents that without "new growth" in the property tax base, the spiraling tax burden will continue to be split among existing taxpayers.

As recently as Aug. 24, during the Select Board's annual tax classification hearing, Town Assessor Christopher Lamarre told the panel why growing the tax base is the only way to avoid either cuts to town services or a Proposition 2 1/2 override vote.

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