Load Up Your Car And Get Ready, A Drive In Is Coming To Taconic

Get a carload ready to take a trip back into time and go to the drive-in!

The Berkshire Theatre Group Sunset Cinema makes way for timeless entertainment and family fun! Drive up and enjoy family-friendly movies in the comfort and safety of your vehicle at the Taconic High School Parking Lot at 96 Valentine Road, Pittsfield.

There will also be a food truck on-site with concession offerings.

There will be a $25 fee per car. You can get your tickets at Berkshiretheatregroup.org

BTG is following the mandates of the State of Massachusetts Mandatory Safety Standards for Workplaces that were released as a part of the Baker-Polito administration’s plan for reopening.

These safety protocols include guidelines for social distancing, hygiene protocols, staffing and operation protocols, and guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting.

Here is what is coming up on the drive-in screen

Friday, July 10

Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (PG)
Gates open at 6:30 pm • Movie begins around 8:30 pm (Sunset)

Disney On Broadway/Youtube

Captured live at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in September 2016, Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical! is set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged ‘newsies,’ who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets.

But when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what’s right.

Saturday, July 11

The Wiz Live! (G)
Gates open at 6:30 pm • Movie begins around 8:30 pm (Sunset)

Playbill/Youtube

Staying true to the groundbreaking seven time Tony Award-winning Broadway show that put a vivid spin on the land of Oz, get ready for a fresh, eye-popping new trip down the yellow brick road!

The Wiz Live! imagines the wonderful world of Oz like never before with a star-studded cast including: Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, David Alan Grier, Ne-Yo, Common and Elijah Kelley, and is directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon and Emmy Award-winner Matthew Diamond.

Thursday, July 16

Jurassic Park (PG-13)
Gates open at 6:30 pm • Movie begins around 8:30 pm (Sunset)

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment/Youtube

In Steven Spielberg’s massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.

While the park’s mastermind assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.