Bakerloo Theatre Project has been producing innovative classical theatre in the capital region since 2000.

Bakerloo Theatre Project was founded to provide emerging theatre artists the opportunity to work on the greatest plays in the dramatic canon. As the company progressed, an aesthetic of intelligent, risk-taking production emerged as the Bakerloo hallmark. Today, Bakerloo is known for its unique ability to provide a new platform for understanding classic plays, while still respecting the intensions of the original text.

Bakerloo Theatre Project has provided nearly 100 emerging theatre artists from across the country and around the world with the opportunity to work with extraordinary plays in a focused, intensive setting. As a result, Bakerloo Theatre Project has become a summer tradition in the capital region.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the city of Troy have been the home of Bakerloo since 2005. The RPI campus is the perfect setting for Bakerloo’s work and Bakerloo is proud to be part of the artistic tradition of the city of Troy.

Bakerloo Theatre Project transforms an empty space in Academy Hall, on the campus of RPI, to create the Main Stage. Here we perform our shows in repertory. Audiences looking for intelligent, athletic and literate productions appreciate Bakerloo’s style.

Along with its Main Stage productions, Bakerloo’s summer season features play readings, youth theatre workshops, seminars, and discussions. Following certain performances, audiences are invited to join the company in the campus pub to discuss the plays and each year Bakerloo sponsors a cookout for the community known as “Shakespeare in the Pork”.

In addition to working with the classics, Bakerloo has offered emerging playwrights the opportunity to develop their works, including Valerie Work, Adam Mathias, Joe Mihalchick and Kirsten Finberg. In 2005, Bakerloo produced the world premiere of The Diary Project, a theatrical collage of real adolescent journals.

Bakerloo Theatre Project has performed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Drew University, New York City’s Center Stage Theatre, Brooklyn’s Freddy’s Bar and Pete’s Candy Store, The Eaglebrook School in Deerfield Mass, Emma Willard School in Troy and Scotia’s Freedom Park. Under the name Compass Rose Theatre Company, Bakerloo was the theatre-in-residence at the historic Round Lake Auditorium in the Village of Round Lake, NY from 2000 through 2003.

The Albany Times Union said, "The best thing about Bakerloo's production is that it neither merely interprets Shakespeare's dialogue nor tries to reinterpret it, but rather builds on the wonderful foundation of the playwright's words." Bakerloo hopes to continue to build on the words of Shakespeare and other exceptional playwrights for years to come.