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June 2-22, 2016
It feels like summer to me! I hope everyone is enjoying the post graduation traffic and warmer weather.
New Century Theatre kicks off the 26th season with the fourth annual Life in the 413 - an evening of radio plays celebrating and poking fun at life in the Pioneer Valley. Come check it out!
The next issue will include events through June 29. Submit upcoming events via the link below or by emailing me before next Tuesday at midnight. Any questions, comments or feedback? Email me at pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
The Battle Series: Diana Oh
by Corey Ruzicano
From the article:
I graduated from college 288 days ago. Since then I’ve been to seven countries, worked nine jobs, and cried on the subway four times.
This article began as coverage on an international arts festival. Bags packed, high hopes in hand, I’m a world away but I am confronted with all the same injustices of home—inequity of race and class and gender. Only now I’m looking at these big issues as a stranger, away from the business as usual patterns of my home and my life, with a head cleared by crossing 3,257 miles to a stranger’s shore. Over and over I am pricked by reminders of my gender and its imposed meaning; of what it is to be a girl by another country’s standard.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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Ashfield Community Theater presents
THE QUICK-CHANGE ROOM
by Nagle Jackson
directed by Chris Rohmann
June 3-4 at 7 pm
Town Hall, 412 Main St., Ashfield
In Nagle Jackson’s backstage comedy The Quick-Change Room, art collides, and then colludes, with commerce. It takes place in Russia just as the Soviet Union is collapsing and the old order is being replaced by a free-market free-for-all.
Still clinging to tradition, the venerable Kuzlov Theater is rehearsing Anton Chekhov’s classic drama The Three Sisters. But something’s got to give. The conflict plays out in the rehearsal studio and in the quick-change costume room, where two hard-working “babushkas” cope with temperamental actors and constant crises, along with a black-market wheeler-dealer and an ambitious young ingĂ©nue.
Though it’s set within a real historical event, The Quick-Change Room is really a clever commentary on the state of the arts in our own country, where commercial imperatives often trump artistic ideals. It’s a smart, witty roller-coaster of backstage backbiting and artistic angst, where the ruble rules and Chekhov spins in his grave.
Buy tickets online or at the door – $12.
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Talking Hands Theatre presents Fairies of the Seasons
Saturday, June 4 at 9:30 AM
Wendell Library, 7 Wendell Depot Road, Wendell, MA
In this magical show, all set on a dress, handmade fairy puppets and felted animals invite the audience to sing, move, and help the fairies find their way back to the seasons where they belong. Recommended for ages 2-7.
More information online.
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New Century Theatre presents LIFE IN THE 413
An Evening of Radio Plays
Saturday, June 4 at 7:00 PM
Theatre 14, Smith College
Don't miss this evening of old-timey radio fun complete with foley artists and six new plays about life in the Pioneer Valley. Hosted by Monte Belmonte and Bill Dwight. Featuring Philip Price and Flora Reed of The Winterpills, The Expandable Brass Band, and Josh Sitron on piano. Plays by Ellen Wittlinger, Jack Neary, Eric Henry Sanders, Phil O'Donoghue, Harley Erdman, and Kelsey Flynn and Hilary Price!
Tickets $25 General, $15 Students and can be purchased online or over the phone after May 31 (413-585-3220).
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Pauline Productions presents 10th Year Celebration Fundraiser
June 5 at 2:00 PM
Gateway City Arts 92 Race St., Holyoke, MA
To celebrate Pauline Productions' 10th year, Lisha Brooks and Dan Robert (Mayflower Plantation) will return to the Valley to screen episodes of their award-winning web series. Proceeds will benefit Pauline Productions, Brooks & Robert productions and the LGBT Asylum Support Task Force.
June 5 at 7:00 PM
Gloriosa & Co.'s Curtis House, 14 South Street, Ashfield, MA
To celebrate Pauline Productions' 10th year of professional theater, Dan Robert and Lisha Brooks return from LA to present episodes from their award-winning web series, BEARDS. Performers from past Pauline Productions will be there.
Website.
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The Majestic Theater presents The Majesters Improv Comedy
June 7 at 7:00 PM
The Majestic Theatre, 131 Elm St. West Springfield, MA
An evening of musical improv comedy featuring the valley's best spontaneous comics.
Tickets for the Majesters shows will be $7 and sold at the door only the night of each show. The troupe takes suggestions and inspiration from audience members. Seating is general admission.
More info online.
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Black Cat Theatre presents MOON OVER BUFFALO
June 9 - 10 - 11 @ 7:00 pm
June 12 @ 2:00pm
East Meadow School
393 East State Street, Granby, MA
Black Cat Theater presents their Spring adult comedy (for mature audiences) "Moon Over Buffalo", directed by Donald Beach.
In the make-up comedy tradition of 'Lend Me A Tenor', the hilarious 'Moon Over Buffalo' centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the1950's. At the moment, they're playing 'Private Lives' and 'Cyrano De Bergerac' in rep in Buffalo, New York with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split up caused by George's dalliance with a young ingenue, they receive word that they might have just one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'. Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that coud go wrong does go wrong abetted by a visit from their daughter's clueless fiance and hilarious uncertainty about which play they're actually performing, caused by Charlotte's deaf old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George's body.
$15 General Admission
$12 Seniors/Students
Veterans/Military Free of Charge
RESERVATIONS: Call 413-563-6023
or email blackcattheater@gmail.com
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The Majestic Theater presents
MAGS (A CONVERSATION WITH AN AUDIENCE)
Thursday, June 9 at 7:30pm
Friday, June 10 at 8pm
Saturday, June 11 at 8pm
Sunday, June 12 at 2pm
An original work by Eaton, “MAGS” is adapted from the book “This is Paradise: An Irish Mother's Grief, an African Village's Plight, and the Medical Clinic that Brought Fresh Hope to Both” by Suzanne Strempek Shea. The true-life story details the mission of Mags Riordan, an Irish woman who traveled to a remote village in Africa following her son's death there in a tragic accident. Beckoned by his insistence that she see the abundant natural beauty of the region, Mags is then motivated to help the poverty-stricken residents there by creating a medical clinic to serve them. Actress Cate Damon will perform the one-woman show as Mags.
For additional information, visit the website.
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Eggtooth Productions presents THE full disclosure festival.
HUMAN IMPACT UPON THE ENVIRONMENT, PAST PRESENT, AND FUTURE
June 10 and 11
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Theater, music, installations, visual art and more….throughout the streets, in movement, and all over town. It’s the Full Disclosure Festival from Eggtooth Productions, June 10th and 11th in downtown Greenfield.
What happens when climatologists, anthropologists, and historians collaborate with artists to find new expression? How about a new musical about the Quabbin called the Water Project? Spoken word with dance? Conceptual art? Experiential art and immersive theater? Come have your mind blown at the 2016 Full Disclosure Festival.
A centerpiece of the Festival is Emma Ayres’ new production of The Water Project, a music theater piece about the expropriation of towns to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Her work blends the history of the disincorporation and destruction, in April 1938, of four towns in Franklin County with our present conflicts with power, politics, and natural resources.
We also offer Poetry Reading on the Main Stage of Artsblock, and A SECRET HISTORY BOOTH with Lindel Hart at GCTV interviewing folks who are invited to tell a story of this place.
Tickets are $20 and are good for the whole weekend and the whole festival and are available online. Full schedule and more details available here.
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TheatreTruck at Easthampton's Cultural Chaos
Saturday, June 11
at 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00 PM
Cottage and Pine Streets,
midway between The Circus Performers (trapeze) and the Center Stage.
TheatreTruck brings COMMEDIA GRAB BAG! to Cultural Chaos
TheatreTruck brings our spin to Commedia dell'Arte in this pop-up performance.
YOU decide the order in which scenes from classical playwrights will be performed in this choose-your-own-adventure performance. The actors add their own improvisation and physical comedy to the mix. A perfect short-form performance for festival goers to enjoy. You won't want to miss it!
More information here.
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