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April 13-May 3, 2017
Howlround is currently looking for World Theatre Map Ambassadors: Are you interested in contributing your talents to help enhance engagement in a tool that seeks to connect our global theatre community? Consider applying to be a World Theatre Map Ambassador. Paid, part-time positions available / applications due May 1.
The next issue will include events through May 10. 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
Igniting a Transgender Revolution in Chicago
by Delia Kopp
From the article:
In the course of a couple months in the fall of 2016, a handful of plays with transgender leads and pivotal characters were staged in Chicago, Illinois. This came as a big surprise to myself, and most of my fellow trans actors, because we hadn't heard about most of them. None of the shows were cast with gender-variant actors, written by trans authors, nor created with any input from trans persons, much less those within the profession.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST
Written by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by Jennifer Onopa
The Rand Theater, Fine Arts Center
April 13, 14, 15 at 7:30 pm
April 15 at 2 pm
Pulitzer-winner Quiara Alegía Hudes’ The Happiest Song Plays Last follows Puerto Rican cousins Elliot and Yaz as they navigate their haunted pasts and uncertain futures in the shifting political climate of a post-9/11 world. Elliot, a former marine, is now a military consultant for a war film in Jordan; while Yaz, a music professor, opens her house to feed and assist the local community in North Philadelphia. Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, Elliot and an international cast of characters explore and negotiate their identities in a world that often ignores and silences their stories. Elliot and Yaz must not only find ways of protest and language to end the cycle of violence that haunts their family, but also find music to feed and heal their souls. UMass Theater is producing a new version featuring 2016 revisions by Hudes.
Tickets: 1-800-999-UMAS or visit umass.edu/theater
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SILVERTHORNE THEATER KICKS OFF 2017 SEASON WITH CLASSIC MUSICAL
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is a cabaret musical built around the great Belgian/French singer/songwriter’s most memorable songs. They range through love ballads, comic novelties, social satire, political commentary and poignant memory pieces, all of them bursting with Brel’s abundant gift for melody and his heartfelt power and passion.
Performances of Jacques Brel are April 13-15 & 20-22 at 7:30 and April 23 at 2pm, in the Arts Block 4th Floor, 289 Main St., Greenfield. Tickets are $25 for premium “ringside” seating, $20 general & $18 students/seniors. Reservations at 413-768-7514 or www.silverthornetheater.org
Silverthorne’s production is set in a Parisian café where the performers are the staff and regulars, and the audience are tonight’s patrons. Valley favorite Chris Rohmann directs; Northampton musician Josh Sitron is Music Director.
The songs form a chain of musical and personal interactions between the performers and with the audience, tracking moods and relationships as the numbers arise out of the lives and fantasies of the four characters: the bartender Jacques, Brel’s namesake (Frank Aronson of West Whately); Frieda, the chanteuse (Stephanie Carlson of Easthampton); Simone, the hostess (Kyle Boatwright of Amherst); and Jean-Luc, the poet (Jayson Paul of Amherst) whose “office” is the café.
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The Majestic Theater presents LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
APRIL 13 – MAY 28
The Majestic Theater in West Springfield will conclude its 20th Anniversary Season with the Tony Award-winning musical “La Cage aux Folles, written by Jerry Herman and Havey Fierstein, April 13 through May 28.
The play, which won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book for its original 1983 Broadway production, tells the story of Georges, his longtime romantic partner Albin, and the complications that arise when Georges' son Jean-Michel comes home to announce that he is engaged to Anne, a young woman whose father is head of the “Tradition, Family and Morality Party.” Georges is the manager and master of ceremonies of the Saint-Tropez drag nightclub La Cage aux Folles, where Albin is the star attraction. Anne's conservative parents are led to believe that Georges is a retired diplomat, and their plan to visit their daughter's future in-laws creates havoc. “La Cage aux Folles,” which inspired the hit movie “The Birdcage,” is in turns heartwarming and riotously funny, ultimately spotlighting the power and love behind family values.
Cast members include Majestic veterans Ben Ashley (Georges), Luis Manzi (Albin), Josiah Durham (Jean-Michel), Christine St. Amant-Greene (Marie Dindon), Walter Mantani (Dindon), Lori Efford (Jacqueline) and Freddie Marion (Renaud). Also appearing will be Doug Lebelle (Jacob), Jackie Mishol (Anne), Luke Smith (Francis), Rich Vaden (Chantel), Tomm Knightlee (Hanna), Ian Weber (Phaedra), Steven Sands (Babette), Michael Garcia (Bitelle) and Gregorio Malonte (Angelique).
Danny Eaton, producing director at the Majestic, will direct the show. Mitch Chakour will serve as musical director. Greg Trochlil is the set designer and Dan Rist is lighting designer. Costume designer is Dawn McKay and Tony Isham is costume consultant. The choreography is by Stacy Ashley and sound design is by Justin LeTellier. Stephen Pettit is production stage manager.
Ticket for the play range from $26-$33 and are available by calling or visiting the box office during its hours of operation, which are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday10am – 1pm. The phone number is (413) 747-7797.
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Greenfield Community College presents Arthur Miller's INCIDENT AT VICHY
April 14, 15, 21, 22 at 7:30pm, April 15 2pm Matinee, and April 20 ArtsNight Performance at 5pm
GCC's Sloan Theatre
INCIDENT AT VICHY is a 1964 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller about a group of men and women detained in Vichy France; and held to wait unknowingly, for what turns out to be their "racial" inspection by German military officers and Vichy French police during World War II. It focuses on the subjects of human nature, guilt, fear, and complicity and examines how the Nazis were able to perpetrate the Holocaust with so little resistance.
More information online.
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Happier Valley Comedy presents Happier FAMILY Comedy Show
Saturday, April 15th at 4-5pm
Community Room (Suite 160,) Eastworks (116 Pleasant Street, Easthampton)
Monthly family-friendly improv comedy show, best for 5-12 year olds and their adults. This month's show is a benefit show for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and will kick off our quarterly benefit show series. Tickets: $10/Adults, $5/Kids, Free/3 yrs and under. For more info: www.happiervalley.com.
Tickets here.
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Smith College Department of Theatre presents
BAKKHAI
by Euripides, a new version by Anne Carson
April 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 at 7:30 PM
Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College
Northampton, MA
A powerful new translation of the Greek classic by award-winning classics scholar, poet, and writer Anne Carson. Pentheus has banned the wild, ritualistic worship of the god Dionysos. A stranger arrives to persuade him to change his mind. Euripides’ electrifying tragedy is a struggle to the death between freedom and restraint, the rational and the irrational, human and god.
$10 General, $5 Students/Seniors, Free for Smith students.
Tickets available online or by calling 413-585-3220.
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Arena Civic Theatre opens their 2017 season with “Six Degrees of Separation” by John Guare
The play runs April 21-30 at the White Church Community Center in Historic Deerfield, MA.
Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, Ouisa and Flan Kittredge, claiming he knows their son at college. Paul tells them he is the son of actor Sidney Poitier, and that he has just been mugged and all his money is gone. Captivated by Paul's intelligence and his fascinating conversation (and the possibility of appearing in a new Sidney Poitier movie), the Kittredges invite him to stay overnight. But in the morning the picture begins to change. Ouisa and Flan discover that friends of theirs have had a similar run-in with the brash con artist, and the play unfolds, layer upon layer. Winner of the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
The play features the direction of Tony Jones. The cast includes Phiilipe Janvier as Paul, Kip Fonsh as Flan, Louise Krieger as Ouisa, Paul Rothenberg as Geoffrey, Dawn Mayo as Kitty, Jim Merlin as Larkin, James Reilly as Dr. Fine, Hilary Dennis as Tess, Ethan Blake as Woody, Trent & Policeman, Emme Geryk as Jen, Dominic Baird Rick, the Detective and the Hustler, Austina Towle as Dee & Doorman and Carolyn Como as Elizabeth.
Tickets are $16 for general admission or $13 for students or seniors, and can be purchased on our Eventbrite page or at the door. For reservations please call 413.233.4368.
*This show is not appropriate for young audiences*
Six Degrees of Separation is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Facebook Event here.
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