GREAT BARRINGTON
MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Updated
This week at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center: Fri 10/16 — Vitamin String Quartet & Girl Named Tom, Sat 10/17 — Arlo Guthrie – An Unscripted Conversation. Upcoming: Fri 10/23 — A.J. Croce: Croce Plays Croce, Sat 10/24 — Kate Kortum Quartet, Fri 10/30 — Jeff Tweedy Solo with special guest Case Oats.
ABOUT
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is a restored historic theater at 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, seating just under 700 in the main hall. In 2025, the venue opened the Indigo Room, an auxiliary space with flexible capacity up to 150, in a former firehouse next door.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Expect a year-round schedule of live music, theater, dance, film screenings, and literary events in a beautifully restored early 20th-century theater. The Berkshires setting draws both regional audiences and summer visitors. Programming ranges from national touring acts to HD broadcasts from London's National Theatre.
HISTORY
The Mahaiwe first opened on September 26, 1905, with the musical comedy "Happyland." The theater hosted acts including John Philip Sousa and vaudeville performers before transitioning to silent films in 1914 and talkies in 1929. After decades of decline, renovation began in 2003 under new leadership. The theater reopened as the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on May 29, 2005.
UPCOMING SHOWS as of 10/12/2026
Friday
- 7:30pm — Vitamin String Quartet & Girl Named Tom details
Saturday
- 7:00pm — Arlo Guthrie – An Unscripted Conversation let's go
Saturday - 11/21
- 5:30pm — Sean Mason Trio jazz vibes
- 8:30pm — Sean Mason Trio jazz vibes
Saturday - 12/5
- 8:00pm — Chris Thile and Aoife O’Donovan – Wassail! An Evening of Carols and Merriment let's go