

Both were better than Broadway revivals that followed a couple of years later. Two of their early productions, “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Cabaret,” transferred to Eastern Mass. Wherever they've performed, though, the quality was Grade A from the start. Now they’re the toast of Pittsfield, helping to lead the artistic revitalization of this less tony neighbor of Lenox, Stockbridge and Williamstown. The Barrington Stage Company has come a long way since Julianne Boyd founded the company in 1994, when its mainstage was a high school auditorium in Sheffield, Massachusetts.

Anthony Crane (center) as Tateh and the cast of "Ragtime." (Courtesy of Daniel Rader/Barrington Stage) This article is more than 4 years old.
