B y L a u r a M a r s // P h o t o s C o u r t e s y o f B e r k s h i r e T h e a t r e G r o u p
“ Mabel Choate was an incredible force— truly the stage manager of Stockbridge.”
KATE MAGUIRE
Clockwise from top left, article by Walter Brown in The Observation Post about Katharine Hepburn joining the Berkshire Playhouse in 1930; Thornton Wilder in Our Town, 1939; The Playhouse in the 1930s; James Cagney in the musical Oh Boy!, 1929; Buster Keaton in Three Men on a Horse, 1949; and Ethel Barrymore in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’ s School for Scandal, 1940.
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