Barrington Stage Company will stage Sunday in the Park with George in the summer of 2027 as a co-production with Tectonic Theater Project, with Tectonic’s founder Moisés Kaufman directing the Sondheim and Lapine musical at the company’s Boyd-Quinson Theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The announcement, made jointly on October 14 by BSC’s artistic director Alan Paul and executive director Greg Reiner with Tectonic’s Moisés Kaufman and executive director Matt Joslyn, names the director and the theater but little else. Casting, the rest of the creative team and the performance dates are all still to be set, and the two companies say they will follow in the coming months.
With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine, the musical won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Its first act follows the painter Georges Seurat in 1884 Paris, consumed by the canvas that became A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; the second moves a century on to 1984 New York, where his great-grandson George, an artist himself, is searching for what to make next.
For Barrington Stage the title adds to a long line of Sondheim in the Berkshires, one that already runs to Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Into the Woods and West Side Story.
“Sunday in the Park with George is one of the great achievements of the American musical theater—an exploration of the passion and courage it takes to create something beautiful and lasting,” said Paul. Reiner set the co-production against the company’s record with the big American musicals, from On the Town to A Chorus Line, and said the partnership was a chance “to bring fresh insight and imagination” to the piece “and make the Berkshires a destination for this landmark musical.”
Kaufman, who founded Tectonic in 1991 and has led it ever since, called it “the most spiritual show that Sondheim wrote, and my absolute favorite musical in the world,” adding: “A musical like this feels so nurturing at this moment, when we all need it.”
A two-time Tony nominee, he directed 33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife, Paradise Square and the revival of The Heiress on Broadway, and wrote and directed The Laramie Project. Tectonic’s most recent new play, Here There Are Blueberries, written by Kaufman with Amanda Gronich, was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The production will play the Boyd-Quinson Theater at 30 Union Street in Pittsfield. Schedules and single tickets for BSC’s summer 2027 season will be sold through the Barrington Stage Company box office and at barringtonstageco.org once the dates are announced.
