While local theater companies will soon take a well-deserved summer break, there’s no shortage of shows within reach.

While Broadway in Boston, the North Shore Music Theatre, and Ogunquit Playhouse all offer a full slate of summer musicals, the Berkshires are buzzing with Shakespeare at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, new works at the Great Barrington Public Theater, a mix of concerts, new and old titles on the Berkshire Theatre Group’s stages in both Stockbridge and Pittsfield, and a heady mix of musicals, cabaret, and plays celebrating Barrington Stage Company’s 30th anniversary. Just over the border in Chester, Vt., the Chester Theatre Company always provides a surprising mix of performers and plays.

If it’s easier to just hop on the T, Moonbox Productions is offering its third annual New Works Festival June 20-24, presenting eight new plays across six stages at the Boston Center for the Arts and Calderwood Pavilion. Tickets are “pick your price.” And be sure to mark your calendar for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s annual gift to the city, Free Shakespeare on the Common. This year the company is staging “The Winter’s Tale,” July 16-Aug. 4.

And if you need a breath of salt air, head north to Gloucester Stage Company for its busy summer season, or south to the Cape where you can find musicals at the Cape Playhouse, intimate dramas and comedies at Harbor Stage Company, and a mix of new work at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, celebrating its 40th anniversary, before ferrying over to Martha’s Vineyard for new works at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse or plays and musicals at the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket.