The Brooke Hills Playhouse was established in present-day Brooke Hills Park and is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia in Brooke County. The playhouse was West Virginia's first traditional summer stock theate, and was started by four area residents: John Hennen of Wheeling, WV, Bill Harper of Chester, West Virginia and Sharon Murphy Harper of Wellsburg, West Virginia.
The playhouse, which has been home to amateur theater for 40 seasons, is a division of the Brooke County Arts Council. The playhouse traditionally performs five shows per season, ranging from farce comedies to musical productions to melodramas. Auditions are open to the public.
The "barn," as it is often called, was once the actual barn of the wealthy and prominent S.C. Gist and the Gist family of Wellsburg, West Virginia in the 18th and 19th century.