Northern Stage is a non-profit, regional professional company located in White River Junction, Vermont. The company began in 1992 to offer high-quality professional theater in northern New England. In early 1997, the Briggs Opera House became the permanent home for the company.
Northern Stage has seven professional productions each year, from September through May, with professional actors, designers and technicians drawn from throughout the country, with the acting talent largely selected from New York City. Many of the actors have Broadway experience.
Northern Stage has won awards four times from the New England Theatre Conference for its productions of To Kill a Mockingbird (1999), All My Sons (2004), Les Misérables (2008) and Hamlet (2009). In 2003, the company hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning author Arthur Miller for a reading of his then-unpublished script, Resurrection Blues, as well as holding a staged reading of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf with international stars Patrick Stewart and Lisa Harrow.
Northern Stage is a constituent member theatre of the Theatre Communications Group.
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