ABOUT US

Silverthorne is a small professional theater company engaging artists and audiences in the conversations of our time with bold, intimate theater. We serve the culturally vibrant and ecologically beautiful Connecticut River Valley region of Western Massachusetts. 

We produce five shows a year: a February cabaret, two spring Theater Thursday play readings focused on the work of Valley playwrights, and two mainstage summer productions presented in Hampshire College’s black box theater in Amherst. Recent productions have included the professional premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ The Broken Machine, the New England premiere of Eisa Davis’s Bulrusher, as well as plays by Tanya Barfield, Lydia Diamond, Jordan Harrison, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Silverthorne is collectively administered by an active board of artist-producers who are involved in all aspects of our season.  We regularly hire actors, directors, designers, and technicians to work with us. 

We were founded in 2014 by David Rowland and Lucinda Kidder. Under Lucinda’s leadership, we quickly won acclaim as one of the top companies in Western Massachusetts.  Lucinda’s involvement in the board continued right up until her passing in 2024. From our original home base of the Greenfield area, we have expanded outward to perform throughout the Valley – a region of about 700,000 people.

We continue to lovingly honor the spirit of Lucinda by bringing daring, relevant, and inclusive theater to Western Massachusetts.