Ryan Hutton of the North Adams Transcript reports, “North County has more performing arts in its future now that Topia Arts and North Adams’ Main Street Stage are working on a partnership that could give the theater company another place to perform.”

Topia co-founder Nana Simopoulos said the two organizations are in the beginning stages of forming a legal partnership which could take effect by next spring.

“We are a theater with no resident company and they are a company looking for more space to perform,” she said. “It’s a great opportunity to work together.”

Alexia Trainor, executive director of Main Street Stage, said that while nothing is official yet, she sees a lot of advantages to partnering the company with Topia. She said Main Street would be able to provide a constant stream of theater to Topia while Topia’s out of town connections could bring new opportunities.

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