* Berkshire Hall ( Classrooms, Theatre & Faculty Offices )

Suchet began his acting career at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Berkshire, and retains a great affection for the place, saying that it " fulfils my vision of a perfect theatre ".

Together with Walter Leighton Clark and others, he was also one of the founders of the Berkshire Playhouse, which later became the Berkshire Theatre Festival.

It was revived by Massachusetts ' Berkshire Theatre Festival in the summers of 2005 and 2007, by director Thea Sharrock at London's Gielgud Theatre in February 2007, and on Broadway ( in the Sharrock staging ) in September 2008.

* Progress Theatre, theatre in Berkshire, England

Sadler was born in Ascot, Berkshire, as a young girl she joined the Sylvia Young Theatre School.

( 1919 ) is the nation's oldest and largest outdoor musical theatre ; Manhattan Theatre Colony, first started near Peterborough, New Hampshire ( 1927 ) and moved to Ogunquit, Maine ; the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts ( 1927 ); and the Berkshire Playhouse, Stockbridge, Massachusetts ( 1928 ).

Some notable summer theatres include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ashland, Oregon, Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Grand Lake, Colorado, Summerstock Conservatory, Calgary, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah, Santa Fe Opera, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, New York, The Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan and Vancouver's Bard on the Beach.

Performing-arts institutions in the Berkshires include Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival for contemporary music in North Adams ; Shakespeare & Company in Lenox ; summer stock theatre festivals such as the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA and the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge ; and America's first and longest-running dance festival, Jacob's Pillow.

He made his professional acting début in 1983 at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, Berkshire as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet.

* Theatre Royal, Windsor, Berkshire

Harrison has a substantial resume in regional theatre, most prominently as a featured player since 2005 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.

* Equus ( 2005 ), as Alan Strang ( Berkshire Theatre Festival )

* Amadeus ( 2006 ) as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Berkshire Theatre Festival )

* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 2007 ) as Billy Bibbit ( Berkshire Theatre Festival )

* Mrs. Warren's Profession ( 2007 ) as Frank Gardner ( Berkshire Theatre Festival )

* July – At the Berkshire Festival, Benny Goodman recorded both the Clarinet Concerto ( with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch ) and the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings ( with the Boston Symphony String Quartet ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for RCA Victor.

* July 13 – The Beaux Arts Trio make their debut at the Berkshire Music Festival.

They made their debut on July 13, 1955 at the Berkshire Music Festival, known today as the Tanglewood Music Center.

Coolidge established the Berkshire String Quartet in 1916 and started the Berkshire Music Festival at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, two years later.

Out of this grew the Berkshire Symphonic Festival at Tanglewood, which she also supported.

* 1919 – Ernest Bloch: Chamber Music Prize for the Berkshire Festival

* 1922 – Leo Weiner: Chamber Music Prize for the Berkshire Festival

* 1923 – Commissions for the Berkshire Festival:

One of the first Berkshire communities to be settled, Lanesborough was originally known as New Framingham, carved from part of Northern Berkshire Township # 6.

Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway was originally founded in 1839 by Oliver Chace in Valley Falls as a cotton manufacturing company, called the Valley Falls Company.

The village contains the oldest church in Berkshire, the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin which is originally a Saxon church, and nearby is the Ladywell which is rumoured to be a pagan well with healing powers.

However, Berkshire Hathaway has created a Class B stock, with a per-share value originally kept ( by specific management rules ) close to of that of the original shares ( now Class A ) and of the per-share voting rights, and after the January 2010 split, at the price and the voting rights of the Class-A shares.

The party originally used Thomas Hardy's definition of Wessex as consisting of the ancient counties of Berkshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire ( which includes the Isle of Wight ), Somerset and Wiltshire, but recently accepted a proposal to add Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire to this list, bringing their definition into line with that used by the Wessex Constitutional Convention and the Wessex Society.

It originally measured 234 ft but lost its upper eight feet to a lightning strike in 1764 ; this was then bought by the then owner of Park Place, Berkshire, where it still resides.

This anomaly dates to the Local Government Act 1972, which came into force on 1 April 1974 – the village had been originally included in Berkshire as the Bill, but an amendment to keep it in Buckinghamshire was proposed by local MP Ronald Bell, and accepted by the government.

Swampy was originally from Newbury, Berkshire, the site of the protest over the Newbury bypass in 1996.

Chapterhouse are a British shoegazing band originally of the early 1990s, from Reading, Berkshire, England.

The Old Paludians Association is the association of former students and staff ( i. e. Old Paludians ) from the following schools in Slough ( originally Buckinghamshire, now Berkshire ):

Slough Grammar School is a fully selective Foundation school in Lascelles Road, Slough ( originally Buckinghamshire but now Berkshire ).

Slough Secondary School was the name of the first major selective secondary school in Slough ( originally Buckinghamshire but now Berkshire ).

It was originally exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924 – 1925, and is now on display in Windsor Castle, at Windsor, Berkshire, England, as a tourist attraction, especially to people with an interest in miniature houses and furniture.

Berkshire County Council sat originally in the Crown Court of the Assize Court in Reading

His father was a merchant of London, originally from Wokingham, Berkshire.

In retirement, Dixon has concentrated on several business interests including the Riverside Brasserie in Bray, Berkshire, originally with his friend Heston Blumenthal.

Reading was originally formed as ' Berkshire Wanderers ' in July 1898 when RFU President Roger Walker, RFU Secretary G Rowland-Hill and Cambridge Blue G R Joyce held a meeting in Pangbourne.

Born in Windsor, Berkshire, and originally from Taplow, Buckinghamshire, she and her older brother Martin " moved around a lot " until they reached Norfolk.

Huntley & Palmers was a British firm of biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire.