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The Boland Theatre has the
largest stage in western Massachusetts, has a
seating capacity of over 450 seats. This comfortable
house boasts good acoustics and has perfect viewing from
every seat. The playing area is adaptable for proscenium,
thrust, or arena staging, and the stage is fully rigged
with a 64-foot grid and a 39-line counterweight system.
Theater Seating Layouts
Town Players has three seating layouts
in the Koussevitzky Arts Center. The production design
determines the appropriate seating arrangement. These
seating chart areas are for reference only.
Main
House Theater Seating Arrangement
View ot the Theater Main Stage Seats
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Three quarter Seating Arrangement : A
 
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Three quarter Seating Arrangement : B
 
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In
the Round Seating Arrangement
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Backstage in the Shop area is a Theatre Control Board built by
Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Co. of Plainville, CT.
This Trumbull auto-transformer dimmer board was installed on the
stage of the new Berkshire Musium auditorium in 1936.
It controlled the stage lighting that consisted of footlights,
three border lights (all in white, red and blue color circuits),
"Pocket or Spot" dimmers and stage floor pockets, "Baby Spot"
outlets above the first border light, and outlets for spots in
the projection booth.
The individual dimmers in each group can be mechanically interlocked
to Master Levers and these, in turn, can be locked to a
Group Master Lever to facilate blackouts.
The Townplayers used this board to light their shows at the Musium
from 1937 until 1973 when we moved to our present location at BCC.
The board was moved to BCC in October 1994 having been retired
after 58 years of service. It is still operational.
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This is a GE Refrigerator that was given to Townplayers in 1958
to be used as part of a set. It had not been used for over 20 years
and had been stored in a TP Members garage.
The refrigerator appears to be from 1915 and had a replacement
turret top added in the late 1920s.
It was left in the Townplayers Workshop until it was needed for
another show (At BCC). After that production, someone plugged it in
and found that it was still working. Since then it has been used to
store food props and refreshments.
In 1994, the door gaskets were replaced to minimize the frost
build-up.
It is still working and can still be found in the BCC Green Room.
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This 1938 Barber Chair was donated to the BCC Theater Department
upon the retirement of a local barber. It has been used in many
BCC and Townplayers productions.
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All productions are at Berkshire Community
College's Koussevitzky Arts Center
Robert Boland Theater at 8:00 PM
Berkshire Community College is located at 1350 West Street in
Pittsfield
Season Ticket Membership, ticket information or ticket
reservations : 
Mailing Address
Town Players of Pittsfield, Inc.
P.O. BOX 765
Pittsfield, MA 01202-0765
townplayers@email.com
Phone Number : (413) 443-9279
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Players of Pittsfield
by David A.
O'Connor , Cheshire Productions,
Pittsfield, MA.
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