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July 21-August 10, 2016
Yankee Tavern opens tomorrow night at Arena Civic Theatre - check out the listing below for more tickets and details. Also A Year with Frog and Toad opened this week at New Century Theatre, and it's an amazing show that's great for people of all ages! Come check it out!
The next issue will include events through August 17. 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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THIS WEEK IN THEATRE NEWS:
from Howlround
Helping an Audience Collaborate with One Another
by Damon Krometis
From the article:
The first immersive play I ever created was a short devised piece exploring the nightmares that mothers have when they are pregnant. In the third act of our four-act structure, we created a moment where the audience had to work together to solve a children’s jigsaw puzzle. We gave each audience member a single jigsaw piece at the top of the show, and when the time came, our main character pulled the puzzle board out from a part of the set and placed it before the crowd.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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NCT Kids! presents A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD
Book and Lyrics by Willie Reale
Music by Robert Reale
Directed by Cate Damon
Musical Direction by Mitch Chakour
July 21-23 and August 3-6
10:30 AM
Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College
122 Green Street, Northampton, MA
Join NCTKids this summer for a tuneful re-telling of Arthur Lobel’s beloved classic children’s books Frog and Toad. In A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, follow best friends--worrywart Toad and confident Frog--as they sing and dance their way through a year in the swamp with all their hopping, crawling, flying friends. All the gentle joy and fun of Lobel’s books come to life in this charming, funny, Tony award-nominated musical for kids of all ages!
More information and tickets available online. Call the box office for tickets at 413-585-3220 or email with any questions. Facebook event here.
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New Century Theatre presents TIME STANDS STILL
by Donald Margulies
Directed by Nicole Ricciardi
July 21-23
Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College, Northampton
Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Marguiles has crafted an insightful, stylish, and splendid theatrical experience in TIME STANDS STILL. Iraq war photojournalist Sarah Goodwin is recovering in America from severe injuries suffered in a roadside bomb blast. As she recuperates in her Brooklyn loft with her longtime lover James, she wrestles with some sudden, and at times hilarious, mid-life crises. As those around her continue to live in the safety of a world without war, she must decide whether to embrace that same world or go back to the life she loves in Iraq—a world filled with danger, misery and moral compromise.
Tickets available online or by calling 413-383-3220. Facebook event here.
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Silverthorne Theater Company presents TWO ROOMS
July 21-23
Sloan Theater at Greenfield Community College
American professor Michael Wells’ (Charles Holt) captivity by Lebanese terrorists stretches on for years. Back in the US, wife Lainie (Emily Bloch), who strips his study bare in an effort to recreate his prison conditions, is caught in the crossfire as official State Department policy wars with media demands to grab the headlines with her husband’s plight. Carmela Lanza-Weil portrays Ellen Van Os, charged by her foreign office minders to keep Lainie in line while ambitious journalist Walker Harris (Jay Sefton) urges her to go public to secure his release. “[T]his arresting work deals with a subject much in the minds of contemporary society—the taking of innocent hostages by political terrorists... the play illuminates both the numbing agony of the one detained and also the helpless fury of those who are left behind.” (NY Times)
Rebecca Daniels, a Turners Falls resident, will direct Lee Blessing’s drama. Recently retired from her position as chair of St Lawrence University’s Performing Arts Department, Daniels has a long career in as a director, educator and scholar. She was a founding member of Portland OR’s premiere professional theater, Artists Repertory Theater.
Two Rooms opens July 14 and runs through July 23. On Thursday, July 21, a panel of local Middle East specialists will join the director and cast after the show for a talkback about the themes and contemporary relevance of the play.
Nighttime show curtain time is 7:30 pm; Saturday matinees at 2 pm. Tickets are $19 general admission, $17 students/seniors (over 65). Group rates for 10+ are available. Pre-sale discount tickets are available at the World Eye Bookshop, Main Street, Greenfield, and Broadside Books, Main Street, Northampton, after June 1. They are now available by calling 413-768-7514 or online at Brown Paper Tickets or at silverthornetheater.org
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Double Edge Theatre presents Once a Blue Moon (Cada Luna Azul)
July 21 - August 22, Wednesdays - Sundays at 8 p.m.
All performances will take place at Double Edge's Farm, 948 Conway Road in Ashfield, MA
Once a Blue Moon (Cada Luna Azul) is inspired by magic realism and many Latin American stories, including Alejandro Jodorowsky's Where the Bird Sings Best, Isabel Allende's Eva Luna, writings by Borges and Marquez, as well as poetry by Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz, Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton and the film Black Orpheus. The story reflects an increasingly universal situation in which “progress” displaces people, in this case causing a flood. It is a story of memory, culture, and song, imbued with the excitement of Latin American carnival. Audience members, traversing the landscape, encounter and mingle with the townspeople of Agua Santa.
For tickets and more info., visit the website.
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Hampshire Shakespeare Company presents MACBETH
July 21-31, Wed-Sun
Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 650 E Pleasant St, Amherst MA 01002
Macbeth remains one of the Bard's most popular pieces because, at its core, the play touches upon a piece of humanity that is uncomfortably relatable. This coming production hopes to cut away the emotionally stunted masculinity and militarism that can dominate the piece. We will instead explore the simplicity and ease of losing yourself to ambition, the trauma of no longer recognizing the person you love most, the crossroads in a story where insanity and supernatural horrors merge, and even the notes of humor that can hang in the air above a tragedy. Colorful, engaging, visually intriguing witches will clash with the lives and fates of grim, gray-scale soldiers. Two lovers will watch their lives disintegrate. And behind it all lies the eerie Birnam Wood (or rather the trees by the Center for Renaissance Studies). Come play in the woods!
Tickets here. Facebook here.
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PaintBox Theatre presents Great Race of the Tortoise and the Hare
Performances at Williston, Easthampton
Friday July 22: 7:00 PM
Saturday and Sunday July 23 and 24 10:30 and 1:00
The greatest sports story of all time. Welcome to The International Raceway. Our contestants: The Tortoise: PaintBox newcomer Michael King vs. The Hare: Kelsey Flynn. Yes! Kelsey Flynn is coming out of retirement. She is dusting off her rabbit ears and jumping into the race. We promise lots of cheering and excitement as we present this folktale dash for glory.
Info:
Tickets: Available at the door or at BrownPaperTickets.com.
Admission: $10.00 for single tickets.
Group Discount: 15 people or more - $7.00 per ticket - email Tom for details
Web site: PaintBoxTheatre.com
Questions: Tom@TomMcCabe.com
Phone: 413-923-7159
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Ko Festival of Performance presents WHEN I PUT ON YOUR GLOVE, by Sandglass Theater
ERIC BASS, after 30 years, is passing the puppets from his signature piece into new hands. The result, performed by his daughter, SHOSHANA BASS, weaves AUTUMN PORTRAITS material with reflections about the complexity of navigating generational artistic legacy. Fri., July 22 and Sat., July 23 at 8:00 pm; Sun., July 24 at 4:00 pm at Holden Theater, Amherst College. Tickets $20; $16 Students and Seniors. Call about a limited number of $8 tickets.
To order before July 4, call 413-427-6147, or online anytime atwww.kofest.com. After July 4, Box Office line: 413-542-3750.
Part of Ko Festival of Performance, celebrating its 25th season, a perennially popular summer theater experience in Western Massachusetts. July 4-August 7, 2016 on the beautiful campus of Amherst College. KoFest presents five weekend-long theatrical performances, two special single events, and three 6-day intensive theater workshops.
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Arena Civic Theatre presents Yankee Tavern
Presented at the White Church Community Center,
16 Memorial Street Deerfield, MA 01342
7/22, 23, 29 & 30 at 8:00 PM and
7/24 & 31 at 2:00 PM.
A thriller set in a New York bar about to be demolished. Adam, a young graduate student, finds himself caught in a web of intrigue as he grapples with questions about his impending marriage, his late father's best friend (who may be a paranoid schizophrenic), and a mysterious stranger who appears to knows far more than he should about the 9/11 attacks.
Suddenly outlandish theories become dangerous realities. Coincidence or conspiracy? Written by Steven Dietz and directed by Jennifer Coliskey. The cast includes Dominic Bairds as Adam, Carolyn Caron as Janet, Jim Merlin as Ray, and Tom Kokonowski as Palmer.
Tickets $16 General Admission, $13 Seniors/Students, $10 Children (12 & under) and are available at the door or by calling to reserve at (413) 233-4368 or online. Facebook event.
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Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble presents
Fringe Kick Off Party for The Red Guitar
Hosted by Nancy Simons and Richard Sclove
Sat July 23rd 8pm to 10pm
54 Shutesbury Rd, Leverett MA
Long time Serious Play collaborator, John Sheldon, will be performing a solo show
in the outdoor courtyard at Nancy Simons' home in Leverett.
This performance will showcase John's The Red Guitar Fringe-length piece being produced & directed for the Edinburgh Fringe by Serious Play Theatre Ensemble.
John will also perform a set of other original songs in the second half of the evening.
John's a virtuoso guitarist and Pioneer Valley musical favorite who at 17 played as lead guitar with Van Morrison. In The Red Guitar, John performs a one-of-a-kind rock and roll fueled musical autobiography.
Help send us off to Edinburgh, Scotland in Western Mass style!
Doors open at 7:30/ show starts at 8:00 (There will be a short intermission.)
Tickets $15 & drinks are by donation
RSVP purchase a ticket via Paypal / or at the event
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Link to Serious Play's new official page on Facebook for up to date information on all of our new projects and productions.
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MAJESTIC THEATER SUMMER CHILDREN’S THEATER presents
TREASURE ISLAND
Monday, July 25 - 10am, 1pm & 6:30pm
Tuesday, July 26 - 10am, 1pm
Wednesday, July 27 - 10am, 1pm
Sunday August 14 - 2pm & 6:30pm
Monday, August 15 - 10am, 1pm & 6:30pm
Tuesday, August 16 - 10am, 1pm
Wednesday, August 17 - 10am, 1pm
The Majestic will also present children’s theater this summer. “The Frog Prince: A Musical," "A Little Princess" and "Treasure Island" will be presented in July and August. Admission is $9 per person. Those who purchase tickets to all three plays at the same time join "The Snack Club," which entitles them to get free snack at each play.
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The Majestic Theater presents Improvisational Comedy with The Majesters
Featuring a troupe of the best improv comics from across the Pioneer Valley and beyond for an evening of unscripted comic mayhem. The program begins with improv scenes similar to "Whose Line is it Anyway," and is followed by a storyline that's developed with help from the audience. Improvisational Comedy with The Majesters takes place Wednesday nights at 7pm July 6-August 24. Tickets are $7.
IMPROVISATIONAL COMEDY WITH THE MAJESTERS SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, July 27 - 7pm - $7
Wednesday, August 3 - 7pm - $7
Wednesday, August 10 - 7pm - $7
Wednesday, August 17 - 7pm - $7
Wednesday, August 24 - 7pm - $7
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New Century Theatre presents JAR THE FLOOR
by Cheryl West
Directed by Gilbert McCauley
July 28-August 6
Theatre 14,
Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College, Northampton
Humorist and author Erma Bombeck once said, “Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.” She could have been talking about Cheryl West’s heartwarming dramatic comedy set in a Chicago suburb. A quartet of single African-American women, spanning four generations, come together in celebration of their great grand- mother, MaDear’s 90th Birthday. Filled with all the resentment, love, accusations and humor that any family reunion brings, JAR THE FLOOR has been hailed as “Boisterous, earthy, enraged and insightful” (Seattle Times) and “...one of the wisest plays I’ve seen in ages” (USA Today). Don’t miss this laugh-filled and poignant closer to NCT’s 26th season.
Call 413-585-3220 or click here for tickets. Facebook event here.
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