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May 23 - June 12, 2019
Just a reminder: Pioneer Valley Theatre News has a Facebook page! If you are looking for information in between newsletters or want to share an event that maybe missed the deadline (Tuesday at midnight) you can post it to the Facebook page or send me an email and I'll post it!
Here's a note from Silverthorne on the retirement of Lucinda Kidder from their press release: congratulations on your retirement, Lucinda, and we'll be excited to see what's next for Silverthorne!
"The Board of Directors of Silverthorne Theater Company announces that Lucinda Kidder will retire as Producing Artistic Director at the end of the 2019 season. During the remainder of the season, which includes mainstage performances of The Fantasticks, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists, as well as a monthly new-play reading series, Kidder will gradually step back from the daily operations of the theater and members of the Board will begin taking on her responsibilities to ensure a smooth transition as we plan for the future."
The next issue will include events through June 19. Submit upcoming events via the link below or by emailing me before Tuesday at midnight. Any questions, comments or feedback? Email me at pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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Email me to reserve your dates.
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THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
Toward a Greater Empathy in the American Theatre
by D. R. Baker
From the article:
Recently, at a show I was working on, an actor arrived at their call time with food poisoning. Their face was pale, their hands shaking relentlessly. It looked like the effort it took them to stand and speak to the stage manager used every ounce of energy their body could muster, and that once the conversation was finished they would collapse onto the Equity cot.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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Want to know even more about events in the Pioneer Valley and beyond,
including reviews, interviews, and previews?
In the Spotlight, Inc.
Berkshire on Stage
Stagestruck
ArtsBeat Radio and News Column
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SILVERTHORNE THEATER ANNOUNCES
NEW PLAY READING SERIES
An integral part of Silverthorne Theater Company’s mission is to promote the development of new work, especially by Western Massachusetts and New England playwrights. In 2018, we staged the world premieres of three new works, two of which were from such writers.
In 2019 we offer a series of free rehearsed readings of new or new to us plays, , called Theater Thursdays, followed by audience discussions. These will be held in different locations in the region. Complete information for each reading may be found at https://silverthornetheater.org.
The purpose of the readings is to give a platform for new work to be heard, and when possible, to be able to give playwrights direct audience feedback. It also gives Silverthorne a look at plays that we might consider fully producing in future seasons.
RESTORATION ROOM, by Harley Erdman
Directed by Chris Rohmann
Two academics (Melenie Freedom Flynn and Jay Sefton) struggle to resist the power of their mutual intellectual and physical attraction. THE RESTORATION ROOM, the third in Silverthorne’s Theater Thursdays New Play Reading Series is directed by Chris Rohman. Playwright Harley Erdman will be on hand to discuss the play after the reading. Free and open to the public. The purpose of the readings series is to give a platform for new work to be heard, and when possible, to be able to give playwrights direct audience feedback. It also gives Silverthorne a look at plays that we might consider fully producing in future seasons.
The reading takes place on Thursday, May 23 at UMass Fine Arts Center, Room 204, (Curtain Theater entrance to FAC), at 7 pm. For events in the Fine Arts Center building, free and secure parking is available on Massachusetts Avenue in University Lots 32, 34, and 71 after 5:00pm and all day on weekends. Accessible parking is available in the South Entrance Lot in front of the Fine Arts Center building when the appropriate license plate or placard is displayed. Please note: the Visitors Center parking lot and all meters near the Fine Arts Center are pay-to-park from 7:00am to 7:00pm.
Harley Erdman’s recent dramatic writing projects include Wild Thing (2019), a translation of Vélez de Guevara’s 17thcentury Spanish play about a gender-bending protagonist; the opera librettos The Scarlet Professor (2017) and The Garden of Martyrs (2013), both with composer Eric Sawyer; and the screwball comedy Nobody’s Girl, which debuted at the Northampton Academy of Music in 2014. With Gina Kaufmann and composer Aaron Jones, he is adapting the Don Juan legend into a musical set on a college campus. His cabaret My Evil Twin, created with Eric Sawyer, will be shown at the Ko Festival of Performance this summer. He is the author or editor of six books, including Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain (2016), which features his translations of ten plays. It won the Josephine Roberts Award. He is a professor in the UMass Theater Department.
Thursday, June 13 DEAR GALILEO, by Claire Willett
Directed by Rebecca Daniels
7 pm 170 Main Street, Greenfield
Three women in three different times wrestle with their identity, the conflict between science and religion, and what it means to be their fathers' daughters…. As the three stories move toward their point of convergence, the destinies of each become inextricably bound with the others, linked through time by love, family, grief, the search for identity and the wonder of the stars.
Thursday, September 12 CAMPUS UNREST, by Talya Kingston
Directed by Trenda Loftin
7 pm Location TBA
Complex choices face an inter-racial British academic couple newly arrived on the campus of a troubled American college.
Sunday, October 13 VERITAS, by Betty Shamieh
Director TBA
3 pm Deerfield Community Center
In the 1660s Harvard College’s governors insisted that Native American youths be trained at the College as Christian ministers to be able to convert their tribes to Christianity. This play explores the lives of the first four of these early converts and the attitudes at the time toward them. Post-show discussion led by historians & members of local Native American communities.
Further details at www.silverthornetheater.org or call 413-768-7514.
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