"THE VALLEY'S MOST adventurously eclectic new ensemble." 

-Chris Rohmann, The Valley Advocate, 2013


We are profoundly grateful to the Local Cultural Councils of Montague, Hadley, South Hadley, Amherst, & Greenfield for their grant awards to our 2024 premiere of When The Mind’s Free. These local agencies are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.


When The Mind’s Free will premiere at the Shea Theater in the summer of 2024!

We will also tour to several senior & community centers

across the valley

Learn more HERE.


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Real Live Theatre is a cooperatively produced theatre company based in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts. As a collective of theatre artists, we seek to create unique, dynamic, and powerful pieces of storytelling. We are committed to working as an ensemble, to training in our craft, to discovering new ways to tell old stories and to generating new stories, and we are committed to excellence in our art. We support ourselves and each other to reach our highest potential as storytellers and performance artists. We seek to engage with our communities - local, regional, national, international, and global. We believe that which stories we tell and how we tell them matters. Real Live Theatre is exactly what we do and who we are and we bring the fullness of our love and courage to this art.


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Real Live Theatre is a proud member of Network of Ensemble Theaters.

Learn more about their vital work here.


"I REGARD THE THEATRE as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

 -Oscar Wilde

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