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August 20 - September 9, 2020
Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble has been working on their moving water project for the last few months, and they are now looking for some support - you can donate here. If you walk by the APE window at 126 Main Street, Northampton between August 22 & August 31 you can view the video loop displayed there on the tv screen to share the first two short but fanciful storefront window experiments: Water Window One- Balloons, and Water Window Two-Sergei’s Daydream.
The next issue will include events through September 16. 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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YOUR EVENT HERE
$5 per week for your poster and ticket link in top billing!
Email me to reserve your dates.
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THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
The New Antitheatrical Prejudice
by Seth Wilson
From the article:
“Oh… so what are you going to do with that?”
When I was an undergrad fifteen years ago, this sentence almost inevitably followed after I told someone I was a theatre major. Sometimes it would be phrased more derisively, like, “What, are you gonna be on Broadway?” Some of this dismissiveness was—and still is—fueled by the relatively modest profile theatre holds in the consciousness of mainstream American culture. As far as theatre goes, Broadway is often the only thing that comes to minds for many, if not most, people. It’s the only possible way many people think a theatre major could ever make any money. Of course, Broadway is a pretty narrow piece of the theatrical pie and not necessarily the goal for most of us who pursue theatrical careers. Can you imagine someone saying to a business major, “Huh, so what are you gonna do, be the CEO of Amazon?”
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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PERFORMANCES and COVID-19 RESOURCES
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DISTANT MUSIC
by James McLindon
Thursday, August 20
Launches at 7 pm on Facebook & YouTube
STC’s final Theater Thursday Play Reading series selection is Northampton playwright James McLindon’s Distant Music. Set in Cambridge in an Irish pub, three people with very different vocations keep company over their pints of stout as they wrestle with major life crises.
This will be a recording of a live reading of the play.
Following the Thursday viewing, audience members can attend a live Zoom discussion with the playwright, director and cast members. Links to the YouTube streaming and the live Zoom audience discussion on August 20 will be posted on Silverthorne’s web site – https://silverthornetheater.org.
At once dramatic and comedic, Distant Music involves themes of faith, law, romantic love -- and fish & chips! The full-length play features Silverthorne veterans Frank Aronson and Jarice Hanson, and newcomer Rocco Desgres under the direction of Penney Hulten.
On a snowy night in an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Connor (Aronson), Maeve (Hanson) and Dev (Desgres) meet, each agonizing over an irrevocably life-changing decision. The three fight over religion and beer, whether truth exists at all, the differences between the Irish and Irish-Americans, the many failings (according to Dev) of the latter, and, finally, the capacity of stout to explain, metaphorically and metaphysically, most of life. The play, winner of numerous awards, has been produced across the country and is published by Dramatic Publishing.
Playwright McLindon graduated from Harvard Law School summa cum laude and was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow and twice a Next Voices Playwriting Fellow at the New Repertory Theatre in Boston. He has also had residencies at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, among others.
Links to the evening’s performance on Facebook and YouTube will be available on the Silverthorne website: https://silverthornetheater.org/ .
Silverthorne's Theater Thursday Play Reading series was made possible in part by support from the Greenfield, Hadley and Buckland Cultural Councils with funds from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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In 2018, Silverthorne was thrilled to present the World Premiere of
WHITE, BLACK & BLUE
an original play by Steve Henderson and Will Chalmus. If you missed the performance on Silverthorne's stage, you have an opportunity to catch an online reading of the play on Saturday, August 22. We urge you to do so!!
This play provides a space for audience members to explore many taboo themes, beyond the obvious, in a way that is digestible and engaging. Unfortunately, the themes that we uncover about race relations and how the authority of police manifests in people's lives are constantly recurring. The creation of this play is an attempt to address how we can be agents of change in a problem that is in persistent rotation in the news and has become part of our daily lives.
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Chester Theatre Company presents THE STORY OF KING LEAR
August 27 at 7:00 PM available to watch through August 30
The Story of King Lear is a 50-minute telling of the Shakespeare classic adapted and directed by CTC Producing Artistic Director Daniel Elihu Kramer.
Stage, film and television veteran Michael Potts takes on the title role as Lear. Known to TV audiences for his arc as Brother Mouzone in the celebrated series The Wire, Potts is also in the upcoming film version of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom starring Viola Davis. Broadway audiences will know him from August Wilson’s Jitney, and musicals The Prom, Book of Mormon, and Grey Gardens. Shelley Fort, who starred in CTC’s 2016 production of The Mountaintop, returns to the CTC “stage” for her second appearance with the company. Fort has also appeared in productions at Trinity Repertory Theatre, La Mama, The Bushwick Starr and others. Most recently, she was in the Broadway National Tour of The Play That Goes Wrong. She’s a graduate of Kenyon College and Brown/Trinity Rep. Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award-winners Tara Franklin (CTC’s Associate Artistic Director and star of last season’s On the Exhale), and James Barry (CTC’s The Aliens, The Night Alive, and Sister Play) also star.
This event is a virtual benefit for Chester Theatre Company.
Watch here.
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From the New England New Play Alliance:
Virtual Performances & Theatre Discussions
The Silverthorne Theater Company presents
Distant Music
by James McLindon
directed by Penney Hulten
August 20
On a snowy night in an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Connor. Maeve, and Dev meet, each agonizing over an irrevocably life-changing decision. The three fight over religion and beer, whether truth exists at all, the differences between the Irish and Irish-Americans, the many failings (according to Dev) of the latter, and, finally, the capacity of stout to explain, metaphorically and metaphysically, most of life. Stream here.
The Asian American Playwright Collective presents
PlayFestival 3
August 20
The 3rd Annual AAPC Play Festival highlights the work of Boston-based Asian American and Asian Pacific Islander playwrights, actors and directors. The theme of this year's free festival is "Food." Plays include:
A Dish Best Unserved
by Michael Lin
Waiting for Kim Lee
by Vivian Liu-Somers
The Wrong Edamame
by Quentin Nguyen-Duy
Auspicious Chicken
by Christina R Chan
Raw
by Hortense Gerardo
Milk
by Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro
SnapCrackleYum
by Michelle M. Aguillon
Lightly Touch Your Heart
by Greg Lam
Register in advance here.
Tales from Camp Strangewood is an anthology, with every episode helmed by a new playwright, director, and team of actors. These chilling tales follow the eclectic inhabitants of Camp Strangewood as they encounter circumstances on the very edge of reality during the same particularly strange night. Over the course of six Sundays, audiences will follow campers and counselors coping with fear and isolation while the rules of the world they once knew fall apart around them.
August 23
Conflict Resolution in Cabin Six
by M. Sloth Levine
directed by Jasmine Brooks
As summer draws to a close, Head Counselor Durden must deal with four tweens on the verge of a frightful discovery. Puberty brings along all kinds of horrors. Stream here.
SpeakEasy Stage Company presents
A Boston Project Podcast of
The Usual Unusual
by MJ Halberstadt
directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
This six episode podcast (new episodes released Fridays) centers on The Usual Unusual, a scrappy and quaint bookstore where Boston's LGBTQ+ community has gathered to shop, organize, and flirt since the 70s. When the store's charismatic founder, Penn, announces his retirement, neurotic staff-member Charlie persuades him to pass leadership on, rather than close the store. The staff’s efforts to unite a fractured community under one banner – or simply to coordinate a weekly reading night -- stoke generational disputes about identity, community, and trauma. Stream the first two episodes.
Boston Podcast Players presents 
Ghost Stories
by Rosa Nagle
A woman sorts through the recordings of her thoughts, her life, and her personal history, which she had to disguise behind Shakespeare monologues. The play explores her taking her grandson away from her daughter and the family estrangement that results, as well as her own dark, childhood secrets. Also, there is a recipe for pig's blood pastries. Stream the episode.
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