Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
Summer 2027 Co Production Barrington Stage and Tectonic Theatre Project
By: Barrington - Oct 14, 2026
Pittsfield, MA - October 14, 2026) – Barrington Stage Company (Artistic Director Alan Paul and Executive Director Greg Reiner), and Tectonic Theatre Project (Founder and Artistic Director Moisés Kaufman and Executive Director Matt Joslyn), have announced a major new co-production of the landmark Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George will be staged during BSC’s 2027 season. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, the production will be directed by two-time Tony Award nominee Moisés Kaufman (Broadway: 33 Variations, Here There Are Blueberries, I Am My Own Wife; Off-Broadway: The Laramie Project). Sunday in the Park with George will be produced in BSC’s Boyd Quinson Theater (30 Union Street) in Summer 2027.
Sunday in the Park with George is a deeply moving exploration of the art of making art. The musical spans one hundred years, transitioning from pointillist painter Georges Seurat’s obsessive creation of his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, in 1884 Paris to his great-grandson George’s search for artistic inspiration in 1984 New York. Widely considered one of the most innovative and acclaimed musicals of all time, the original production won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama alongside numerous Tony Awards.
Barrington Stage Company has a long history of producing the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, with previous seasons having included critically acclaimed productions of 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 BSC’s Artistic Director Alan Paul. “It reminds us why art matters, and why we devote our lives to making it.”
“At Barrington Stage, we approach the great American musicals with the ambition to create definitive productions that audiences will remember for years,” said BSC’s Executive Director Greg Reiner. “From On the Town to A Chorus Line, that ambition has helped shape BSC’s national reputation. With Moisés Kaufman, one of the great creative forces in theater today, and our partners at Tectonic Theater Project, we have an extraordinary opportunity to bring fresh insight and imagination to Sunday in the Park with George and make the Berkshires a destination for this landmark musical.”
“To me, Sunday in the Park with George is the most spiritual show that Sondheim wrote, and my absolute favorite musical in the world," Kaufman commented. "It is a brilliant, layered meditation on what it costs to create something truly monumental, and it's just full of grace. A musical like this feels so nurturing at this moment, when we all need it. I am incredibly honored to collaborate with the extraordinary team at Barrington Stage Company to bring this magnificent score and timeless story to vibrant life on stage.”
Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Obama, Moisés Kaufman is Founder and Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project, which he has led since its founding in 1991. Broadway credits include Paradise Square (10 Tony Award nominations), the revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, the revival of The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), and Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (Obie Award and Tony, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award nominations). West End: Gross Indecency, I Am My Own Wife, This Is How It Goes. Off-Broadway/Regional: Here There Are Blueberries (Tectonic Theater Project/La Jolla Playhouse), Seven Deadly Sins (Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, Tectonic Theater Project/Madison Wells Live), One Arm by Tennessee Williams (Tectonic Theater Project/The New Group); The Laramie Project (writer/director; Theater in the Square, Drama Desk nomination); The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (writer/director; Alice Tully Hall); Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (writer/director; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and the Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction); Macbeth with Liev Schreiber (Delacorte Theater); Master Class with Rita Moreno (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Opera: El Gato Con Botas (New Victory Theater). Film/TV: The Laramie Project (HBO; two Emmy nominations for writing and directing, Opening Night Selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, National Board of Review Award, the Humanitas Prize); The L Word. Kaufman is a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting, and an Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award winner.
Casting, additional creative team and performance dates for the Summer 2027 production will be announced in the coming months.
Performance schedules, ticket information, and single tickets for the Summer 2027 season will become available through the Barrington Stage Company Box Office or by visiting their official website at www.barringtonstageco.org.
ABOUT BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY
Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is an award-winning professional theatre based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in the heart of the Berkshires. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul and Executive Director Greg Reiner, BSC is dedicated to producing high-quality, compelling work; developing new plays and musicals; and engaging the community through robust, inclusive educational programs.
BSC welcomes more than 60,000 patrons annually and has earned national recognition for the excellence of its productions and the breadth of its educational initiatives, including the Playwright Mentoring Project, Musical Theatre Conservatory, Youth Theatre, KidsAct!, and other programs. The theatre plays a vital role in the cultural life and economic revitalization of downtown Pittsfield.
Founded by Julianne Boyd in 1995, the Company’s national profile began with a widely acclaimed revival of Cabaret that transferred to Boston in 1997. Its reputation continued to grow with the World Premiere of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin (BSC 2004), which later moved to Broadway (2005–2008) and won two Tony Awards. Additional notable productions include Christopher Demos-Brown’s American Son (BSC 2016; Broadway 2018); Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session (BSC 2009; Off-Broadway 2010–2012); Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green’s On the Town (BSC 2013; Broadway 2014, four Tony Award nominations); Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company starring Aaron Tveit (2017); and West Side Story honoring the centenaries of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins (2018).
BSC supports the development of new work through two core programs: PlayWorks, focused on new plays, and the Musical Theatre Lab, dedicated to new musicals. Since 1995, the Company has produced 50 new works, 22 of which have transferred to New York and major regional theatres nationwide.
ABOUT TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT
Tectonic Theater Project is a New York City-based developmental theater company founded in 1991 by Moisés Kaufman & Jeffrey LaHoste and led today by Kaufman and Matt Joslyn. Tectonic plays include Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Doug Wright's Pulitzer Prize winning play I Am My Own Wife, Kaufman's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' screenplay One Arm, The Tallest Tree in the Forest, Tony Award-winning 33 Variations (which starred Jane Fonda on Broadway), Kaufman's adaptation of best-selling Venezuelan novel Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard, and the immersive theatrical event Seven Deadly Sins presented in New York City's Meatpacking District. Tectonic's newest play, Here There Are Blueberries, written by Kaufman and company member Amanda Gronich, was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and winner of the 2025 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Production. In 2016, Kaufman was awarded the United States National Medal of Arts by President Obama. Tectonic's method of devising theater is codified in the Random House book Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Making Theater. Tectonic's plays have been translated into more than 25 languages and are consistently performed around the world.