PITTSFIELD, Mass. â Everyone who lives in the Northeast knows that February is a cruel month.
For this reason, in 2011, Barrington Stage Company was trying to find a way to brighten the winter lives of their patrons.
The result was the start of the 10X10 New Play Series. Itâs a night of ten original plays that take approximately ten minutes to perform. The hope was it would be a one-off diversion that would keep actors busy and audiences entertained.
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Ten years later, it is an annual festival and one of the most popular events the theater produces. Itâs so popular that despite the pandemic 10x10 is still taking place this year. It has been pushed back a month and is offered March 11-14 and 18-21.
PITTSFIELD â The Tens are back for their 10th annual go-round â Barrington Stage Company s 10X10 New Play Festival, that is; a bit later than usual and in a somewhat different medium.
The festival of 10 new 10-minute plays typically is performed live at BSC s St. Germain Stage in the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center on Linden Street as part of Pittsfield s February 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival. This year, in a bow to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tens have been filmed at BSC s strictly sanitized Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, with no audience present, for streaming March 11-14 and 18-21. Tickets â $35 for one viewer; $55 for a household â are available via barringtonstageco.org/10X10.
PITTSFIELD â Barrington Stage Company s Tenth Annual 10X10 New Play Festival is set for March 11-21.
This year s festival, celebrating 10 years of 10X10s, will be filmed live on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage with no live audience and stream by demand March 11â14 and 18â21.
Tickets â $35 for one viewer, $55 for a household viewing â are available at barringtonstageco.org/10x10.
âWho knew when we started our 10x10 New Play Festival ten years ago that it would become one of our most popular events of the year?â BSC artistic director Julianne Boyd said in a prepared statement. âWe started with two weeks of performances and as of last year, we ran our 10x10 Plays for one month in the middle of the winter.
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