Our 2018 summer spectacle is going to be at Berkshire East!!

“Yip, yip!” The Beast will be home to a real beast this August when when the Hilltown Youth Theatre Summer Workshop bring Appa, Momo to life in their performances of Avatar the Last Airbender, our first full mountain outdoor, traveling spectacle!

Save the dates July 16- August 8th!

The Hilltown Youth Theatre Summer Workshop is the flagship of our youth programming. The Workshop provides much needed, high quality, intensive arts experiences for young people in one of Massachusetts’ most rural areas. For the past seven years, through artistic excellence, exemplary work with young people and a commitment to building a supportive community for youth, the Workshop has helped young people develop personally and artistically through professional caliber, community-centered theater. The program brings together student-performers from all over the region to train and collaborate on theatrical productions at a high level. It is part of an effort to use theater to create a larger sense of community that transcends buildings and school campuses and instills in young people a sense of place and appreciation of hilltown life and passion for the arts.  [Read more…] about Hilltown Youth Theatre Summer Workshop

From October to April the Hilltown Drama Club (formally the Heath School Drama Club) makes its home at the Hawlemont School in Charlemont MA. Our Theatre Enrichment Program serves students from all nine towns that comprise the Mohawk Trail Regional School District (MTRSD), all four of its elementary schools as well as students from neighboring schools districts (e.g., Rowe, Greenfield and Turners.) Our campuses are nestled among old orchards and pastureland at the outer reaches of the Pioneer Valley. The rural setting, while idyllic, limits access to affordable arts education. Our towns comprise the largest geographic school district in the state, and the poorest. With two thirds of our students qualifying for free and reduced lunch, the Hilltown Drama Club provides access to arts and music education that many families can’t otherwise reach.  [Read more…] about Winter Theatre Enrichment Programs

Massachusetts is currently experiencing an epidemic of opiate addiction that is ravaging our communities and our youth. It is in the headlines on an almost daily basis. Task forces have been formed and prevention budgets bolstered. However, if we expect young people to “just say no” to a chemical high we must recognize the healing alternative: their own creativity. Theater is the real anti-drug program. Find Out More