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January 7 - 27, 2021
Happy New Year!
A few workshops coming up early in the year - Learn to make puppets from recycled materials with World & Eye, or join classes in musical theatre, storytelling, and more from Starlight's Youth Theatre. More details in the listings below.
The next issue will include events through February 3. 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
Reverse-Engineering Zoom with Isadora
by Barbara Fuchs and Jared Mezzocchi
From the article:
Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working in the field for over a decade and has explored it from multiple points of view—designer, director, playwright, artistic director. As a theatre educator, he launched an MFA program at University of Maryland in projection design, and he recently designed and co-directed Russian Troll Farm, the highly acclaimed Zoom theatre production. We Zoomed in November to talk about the production, how to reverse-engineer Zoom, Isadora as the way forward, and more.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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NORTH STAR, THE INSTITUTE FOR THE MUSICAL ARTS, AND THE SHEA THEATER ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE GET DOWN WITH YOUR HOMETOWN
Friday and Saturday, January 8 and 9, 2021
A TWO-DAY VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL TO BENEFIT ALL THREE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
HOSTED BY: MONTE BELMONTE, KELSEY FLYNN, and PAM VICTOR
North Star, The Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA), and the Shea Theater are pleased to announce Get Down with Your Hometown (GDHT).
Get Down with Your Hometown is an online music festival, made possible through the collaboration of three great Pioneer Valley organizations, North Star, the Institute for the Musical Arts, and the Shea Theater. Bringing together the Shea's acclaim for incredible concerts, IMA's inspiring summer programs and events, and North Star's reputation for fostering bands and musicians, this event will combine what's special about each of them in providing a weekend of entertainment for you in presenting #GetDownHometown. Western Massachusetts-based and nationally known musicians, many of whom are former North Star and IMA students, or have performed at the Shea, will be featured.
GET DOWN WITH YOUR HOMETOWN
Friday, January 8, 6 p.m. – 9:30 p.m
Saturday, January 9, 3 p.m. – 9:30 p.m
www.getdownhometown.com
Select Artists include:
Lake Street Dive June Millington Dar Williams
Taylor Ashton The Winterpills Naia Kete & SayReal
Suitcase Junket Erin McKeown The Nields Old Flame Kimaya Diggs Martin Sexton Kalliope Jones Miro Sprague Jaime Kent
with many more and Special Guests!
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Play Incubation Collective
Saturday, January 9 at 8:00 PM
Join Play Incubation Collective theater artists for an evening of exclusively new work. We're talking music, dance, scenes, sketch, improv, and even a brand new scene written DURING the show and performed as part of the big finale. This is a one-night-only event that you won't want to miss.
And the best part is that it's all for a good cause. This event will help raise funds for local artists and the development of new plays home grown here in Western New England.
PIC is a collective of empowered theater artists centering stories that challenge the dominant cultural paradigm through a highly collaborative, unique play development process and is an emerging hub for new play creation in Western New England.
Facebook Event here.
Reserve your ticket here! It's FREE!
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From the New England New Play Alliance:
Virtual Theatre and Podcasts
Portland Stage presents
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
adapted by
Joel Leffert
directed by
Anita Stewart
now-Jan. 9
The holiday family classic is brought to life in this world-premiere one-man show, with charming costumes, delightful music, and a few ghostly apparitions. It is guaranteed to warm the heart of every Scrooge and is now available as an on-demand digital performance. Tickets: $25.
Join Play Incubation Collective theater artists on January 9t at 8:00 pm for an evening of exclusively new work including a scene written during the show and performed as part of the big finale. This event will help raise funds for Play Incubation Collective artists and the development of new plays home grown in New England.
The Place That Made You
by Darcy Parker Bruce
directed by Rachel F. Hirsch
Jonah is a trans man who feels most at home and safe with Emily, who has just married someone else.
Untitled
by Patrick Gabridge
This play will be written during the variety show with input from the audience.
The Absence of Dog
by Jackie Martin
One actor will read lines from the scene while an improvisor, who has not seen the scene, will improvise their lines.
Humanity’s Child
written and directed by John McDonnell Tierney
Maria Bechara will perform a song from this musical theater work.
Virginity
by Germaine Shames, Krista Pojman, and Daniel Lincoln
Rachel F. Hirsch will perform the title song from the musical theater piece.
Article 534
by Lama El Homaïssi
music by Lama El Homaïssi and Elliot Lazar
The writers will perform the song “Children of the Night” from the musical.
Tickets: free.
Third Citizen Theatre Company presents
Digital Dionysia
now-January 26
A ten week series of new, contemporary short plays inspired by classical Greek theatre and mythology and produced by local creative teams with playwrights from New England and beyond. These plays reintroduce familiar characters and settings in ways that are surprising, hilarious, thought-provoking, and always original.
Week seven:
Finding Zeus
by Jack Rushton
January 5
directed by Kevin Williams
Achilles and Patroclus
by Jessica Tocci
January 5
directed by Nick Klevisha
Mother
by J. Marc Quattlebaum
January 5
directed by Michelle Aguillon
Week eight:
Nemesis
by Andrea Aptecker
January 12
directed by Alexandra Smith
Octavian Augustus: A Tale Of Topping
by Nic Sommerfield
January 12
directed by Jillian Blevins
Tickets: $5 per week; $25 series pass.
Shoestring Radio Theatre presents
by Monica Raymond
directed by Virginia Handley
When Krishna, a telemarketer in New Delhi, calls Karen, a schoolteacher in the US, his life takes a sudden upturn. Karen believes Krishna is worthy of something better than telemarketing, and his sales numbers soar. When Karen loses her job teaching special ed, how can he help her in turn? Stream here.
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You know our iconic Old Town Hall from the outside, now experience it from the inside. This is your invitation to virtually tour the building.
Explore one of Easthampton’s most historic structures from the comfort of your home. As you glide up the stairs and into the 2nd floor, be sure to explore all the nooks and vantage points.
Over the past decade, CitySpace has been working on plans to restore the building to full function, to equitably foster the arts, and to sustain the economic and cultural vitality of Easthampton. Experience Old Town Hall.
And when you visit, enter to win a Main Street gift box worth over $100! |
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