Northern Stage

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For the theatre company in Newcastle upon Tyne, see Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Northern Stage is a non-profit, regional professional company located in White River Junction, VT. The company began in 1992 under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Brooke Ciardelli to offer high-quality professional theater in northern New England. In early 1997, Ciardelli discovered the Briggs Opera House which became the permanent house for the company.

Northern Stage offers six to eight professional productions each year, from October through April, with professional actors, designers and technicians drawn from throughout the country with the acting talent largely selected from New York City. The company also offers a year-round Theater Arts Education Program for children and adults.

Northern Stage has twice won awards from the New England Theatre Conference for its productions of To Kill a Mockingbird (1999) and All My Sons (2004). In 2003, the company hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning author Arthur Miller for a reading of his then-unpublished script, Resurrection Blues, as well as holding a staged reading of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf with international stars Patrick Stewart and Lisa Harrow. Harrow also reprised her New York starring role in Wit and appeared in the award winning production of All My Sons and returned to star in the company's rendition of The Lion in Winter (2006).