Main Stage West

Main Stage West was founded in 2011 by a consortium of local artists called The Performing Artists Coalition for Theater (PACT), a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit charitable corporation. Prior to its inception the theater space at 104 North Main Street existed for over twenty years as: Nova Theater; Main Street Theater; and, lastly, Sonoma County Repertory Theater which dismantled in 2010 The mission of Main Stage West (MSW) is to provide West Sonoma County residents and visitors with professional level theater productions on a year-round basis. MSW has an ongoing contact with Actors’ Equity Association, The Union of Stage Actors and Managers USA. MSW has employed and over two hundred local actors, stage managers, directors and designers since our founding 5 years ago. MSW has been a recipient of the Sebastopol Chamber of Commerce 2014 Community Award, 2013 Best of Sebastopol Award for Arts Organizations & largely rural community lacking easy access “big city” culture. Main Stage West produces eight fully mounted plays per year at 104 North Main Street in Sebastopol. Our Season is comprised of new plays, modern renderings of classics, and popular faire. In addition to play production, the MSW space has hosted local concerts, lectures and films. The company also runs an ongoing program of Summer Theater for Youth emphasizing Shakespearean texts generously donated by the Risk Press Foundation of Sebastopol. Dancing At Lughnasa Part memory, part magic, Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa is widely regarded as a modern theater classic. In the play, Michael Evans recalls the nostalgic summer of 1936, at his aunt’s cabin in the fictional town of Ballybeg, just before the dawn of WWII, when life would change forever. The scene we will be in acting is from this play which opens at Main Stage West on October and plays through October 30.