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April 15 - May 5, 2021
Theatre Between Addresses has a performance tonight! And this Sunday, CitySpace closes their inaugural series of presentations with Restoring Community: Valley Writers Inspiring Theatre - I believe there will be some paid forward tickets available for free if you are interested. Stay tuned after the reading for a conversation with yours truly.
The next issue will include events from April 22 through May 12. 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
Why Are There No Great Kids of Color in the Performing Arts?
by Ilasiea Gray
From the article:
As a Black performing arts educator and actress who has performed many theatre for young audience (TYA) shows, I have taught and shaped the minds of thousands of kids. Inspiring young people by way of performing arts is something I take great pride in—especially as an actress/educator of color who students might not otherwise encounter.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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Theater Between Addresses
Staged Reading: These and Those by Ruth Geye
April 15 at 7:30 PM
Written by Ruth Geye, directed by Abigail Weaver.
Six college students pile into a small basement apartment for Shabbat lunch, but they can’t keep the outside world from showing up uninvited.
This is a public reading and tickets are free, however we invite attendees to donate to the Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network in lieu of tickets. (https://givebutter.com/tassn)
This play contains some strong language that is not suitable for young theatergoers.
Starring:
Alice Zelenko
Dylan Hoffman
Amelia Annen
Ben Natan
Nic Sanchez
Jake Krakovsky
Theater Between Addresses is a constellation of theatre artists and writers working together to foster, workshop, and produce new work. Brought together out of a necessity for connection and creative outlet, this collective produces original theater for the end of the world. If you would like to get involved, message this page or write to us at
theaterbetweenaddresses@gmail.com
https://theseandthose.brownpapertickets.com/
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Restoring Community: Valley Writers Inspiring Theatre
APRIL 18
6 - 7 P.M.
Western Massachusetts is home to some of the world’s most esteemed literary figures. Artistic producer and playwright Emily Wiest reintroduces us to some of these writers’ works through new interpretations from actors— Phanésia Pharel, Annelise Lawson, Tony Aidan Vo, and Austin Jones, performed especially for this series. Explore the relationship of the Connecticut River Valley’s history and language through a series of captivating performances. David Foster Wallace, Ocean Vuong, and Charlise Lyles are amongst the esteemed authors whose works are to be performed.
In addition to the main event, enjoy a conversation with Glendale Ridge Vineyard, get in the mood with a carefully crafted playlist in your inbox, and receive delightful diversions in your mailbox. Finally, ticket holders will reap specials to Easthampton businesses to make your event experience complete.
Tickets are $25 per household / $40 for two events (through March 21)
CitySpace offers reparations pricing with reduced or free tickets available for BIPOC.
TICKETS
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From the New England New Play Alliance:
Virtual Theatre
and Audio Plays
Central Square Theatre and Catalyst Collaborative@MIT present
a production of
now-April 20
Streaming as part of The Britt D'Arbeloff Women & Science Theatre Festival, join us for In the Play Lab: Original Ten-Minute Plays! Commissioned especially for the Women & Science Theater Festival, this collection of Ten-Minute Plays is fresh off the typewriter (wait, what is that?). Stream eight plays with strong female characters engaging with real science.
Tickets: free, donation requested.
Boston Theater Marathon XXIII: Special Zoom Edition features readings of 10-minute plays by New England playwrights in collaboration with New England theatres. Audiences are encouraged to lend their support to area theatre companies and to the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, which provides financial support to theatres and theatre artists in need. The readings begin at noon each day, with the exception of Sundays. A question-and-answer session follows each play. This week's plays:
Mother Goose’s Grave
by Amy Bennett-Zendzian
April 13
sponsored by Greater Boston Stage Company
A Requiem for a Drink
by Cliff Odle
April 14
sponsored by Gloucester Stage Company
One Cream, One Sugar
by Sadie Green
April 15
sponsored by Boston College Theatre Department
Because You’re Julia
by Deirdre Girard
April 16
sponsored by Suffolk University Theatre Department
Virgin
by William Orem
April 17
sponsored by Pilgrim Theatre
On Lock
by Thomas Sanders
April 19
sponsored by Entropy Theatre
Out Damn Spot
by Nina Mansfield
April 20
sponsored by The Hub Theatre Company of Boston
Tickets: free, click “purchase tickets” to join the production.
Powerhouse Theatre Collective and Community Players of Concord present
Zoom Play Festival
April 16
These short original plays have been created by writers who participated in our playwriting workshop in the fall of 2020. Enjoy a range of offerings from the comfort of your own home. These plays will be recorded on Zoom and presented on YouTube.
Ship of Fools
by Chuck Fray
directed by Ken Chapman
Choices
by Doug Schwarz
directed by Joel Iwaskiewicz
Here We Go
by Doreen Sheppard
directed by Judi Rogato
Couple Seeks Extrovert
by Brenda Wilbert
directd by Doris Ballard
Boys in Boxes
by Sharleigh Thomson
directed by Katie Griffiths
Girls in Boxes I
by Sharleigh Thomson
directed by Katie Dunn
Girls in Boxes II
by Sharleigh Thomson
directed by Lauren-Shelby Douglas
Check out the Zoom Play Festival cast list
Tickets: free, donation requested
A-TÃpico is a two-week festival of online, new-play workshops that aims to showcase and expand the focus on underrepresented Latinx stories.
Week two's plays:
Anormales
by Fernando Vieira
April 15
At the end of the 1980's, a gay young man confronts the oppressive society of his hometown of Guayaquil. In the meantime, his family battles recriminations, fear of the truth and stigma that turns dangerous.
SSA (not that one)
by Luis Roberto Herrera
April 15
Vito is new to a support group and in trying to decipher a series of dreams he starts to slowly unwind while those around him seem unaffected by the events that surround this peculiar collective of people.
Binary Star
by Guadalupe Flores
April 16
The reclusive, brilliant and autistic astrophysicist Sara Rinck lives a lonely but comfortable existence on a mountaintop, a life that is disrupted by the arrival of her niece, Jessica Sandoval. Binary Star follows the two women as they discover how their lives intertwine, the tidal forces of love bringing them together while allowing both of them to realize the potential to be more than they are.
Flood
by Alicia Margarita Olivo
April 17
As Hurricane Harvey’s landfall approaches Houston, Salomé Salas is stranded with their estranged Mexican immigrant family. As Harvey rages on, Magdalena, Salomé's sister documents her family’s life, violence, and trauma in a series of audio recordings. Funded by The Pamela Daniels Fellowship and runner-up for Theatre Viscera's 2021 Podcast Season.
Tickets: free.
Theater Between Addresses presents
an online reading of
These and Those
by Ruth Geye
April 15
directed by Abigail Weaver
Six college students pile into a small basement apartment for Shabbat lunch, but they can’t keep the outside world from showing up uninvited. In lieu of an admission fee, attendees are asked to donate to the Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network. Tickets: free.
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The Smith College Department of Theatre New Play Reading Series is pleased to present Cordova Bend by Marty Bongfeldt on Thursday, April 22 at 7:30pm live on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/cordovabend.
When best friends Maggie and David have their first fight, the road back to peace is as twisted as the bend they live on. David tells it one way, but Maggie remembers something else. Only one of them knows the truth of what happened on Cordova Bend.
Directed by James Barry
Stage managed by Madison VanDeurzen
Featuring James Barry, Clarissa Po, Georgia Fowler, Tara Franklin, José Espinosa, Cole Seitz, Wren Gilbert, and Katherine Heyman.
About the author
Marty Bongfeldt is a New England based playwright, director and performing artist. She is the recipient of the 2019 Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize for her full-length play, “In Session (or My Life is Hell);” and the 2018 Denis Johnston Playwriting Prize for “Four Collected Plays.” Her short play “ALWAYS” was named a winner in the 2019 Radius Festival and received a production with the Berkshire Playwrights Lab. Ms. Bongfeldt has been a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA for over 30 years. As a teacher, choreographer, and theatre director, Ms. Bongfeldt has helped develop educational theatre programs and produced theatrical productions in Texas, New York City and throughout Connecticut. As an actress, Marty has performed, professionally, throughout the United States in both musicals and straight plays, including originating roles in several astounding musicals that never saw the light of day after their NYC workshops. Currently, Ms. Bongfeldt resides in Northampton, MA where she is pursuing her MFA Theatre/Playwriting at Smith College under the mentorship of Len Berkman.
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Facing the Future: Climate Change Theater- an online short play festival
on demand, anytime on Earth Day: Thursday, April 22
Online
Facebook event
Tickets
Watch the trailer
The LAVA Center is proud to reprise our second online short play festival, “Facing the Future: Climate Change Theater.”
In plays penned by 13 playwrights from 3 continents, characters from cerulean warblers, insects, brown bull catfish, and fire to a wide age range of humans plus a couple of time-traveling aliens confront questions of our collective survival.
The plays are written by Lindsay Adams, Sara Becker, Kay Bullard, Patricia Crosby, Colette Cullen, Stephen Fruchtman, Nina Gross, Jan Maher, Rex McGregor, Michael Nix, Candace Perry, Vanessa Query and Karen Shapiro Miller.
The plays are directed by Colette Cullen, Ezzell Floranina, Jan Maher, Rex McGregor, Michael Nix, Joshua Platt and Vanessa Query.
Twenty-eight actors from as near as Greenfield and as far as Dublin, Ireland and Auckland, New Zealand bring it all to life via Zoom.
The performers are Anna Baskowski, Sara Becker, Amanda Bowman, Leona Burke, Adelaide Carey, Ken Chisolm, Rachel Cronin-Townsend, Chris Devine, Jacob Frank, Stephen Fruchtman, Derek Good, Tracy Grammer, Thom Griffin, Nina Gross, Mary Chris Kenney, Alain Lamoureux, Gloria Matlock, Bob McNeil, Becky Minard, Leah Rantz, Lesleyann Reilly, Kimberly Salditt-Poulin, Sumaiya Sannah, Ovella Snow, Charlotte Swinburne, Laurel Turk, Nancy Winokoor and Trevor Young.
This program is made possible in part by generous support from Greening Greenfield.
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THE LIGHT
An Online Fresh Takes Play Reading
by Loy A. Webb
Directed by Colette Robert
Featuring
Elle Borders as Genesis
Brandon G. Green as Rashad
A surprise proposal gift puts the future of Genesis and Rashad's relationship at risk when they are forced to confront a devastating secret from the past. THE LIGHT is a 70-minute, real-time rollercoaster ride of laughter, romance, and despair that uncovers how the power of radical love can be a healing beacon of light.
Available for streaming Sunday, April 25-Sunday, May 2, 2021
Tickets $15, $25, and $50
For more information about the 2021 Season and WAM Theatre’s programs, events, and artists, please visit www.WAMTheatre.com.
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UMass Theater's COVEN-19 witches return in a new ritual for spring
COVEN-19, Or, Magicks for Unprecedented Times
Free, open to the community
Click the date to register for a performance of this live, online event:
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The springtime signifigance of May Day and Beltane is the creative jumping-off point for a new edition of COVEN-19, Or, Magicks for Unprecedented Times, running April 29, 30 and May 1 live online at UMass Theater as part of our Rights of Spring festival.
COVEN-19, pun very much intended, is a community of artistic witches who are called upon to own their individual and collective power, make meaning out of utter chaos, and manifest tangible, seismic change.
As in October, the community will fuse witchcraft and theater into an online, immersive format that aims to heal some of the collective hurt and grief of the past year. However, this will be a different performance, as this spring's ritual will be performed in honor of Beltane, or May Day.
"For me personally, magic is a source of healing and introspection," dramaturgy grad student and co-creator Maegan Clearwood says, and she originally proposed this project as a way "to be with other like-minded people and figure out how to make the world a better place."
In keeping with that ethos, this is a devised piece, meaning that rather than working from a script with a single leader, the company built the work by exploring questions and themes together. "It's a really nice opportunity just for us to experiment with ways of making theatre that are egalitarian and collaborative," says fellow grad student and co-creator Percival Hornak.
The time is ripe for magick-making!
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COVEN-19 is part of The Rights of Spring, a theater festival presented by the University of Massachusetts Department of Theater to rebuild connections with each other and celebrate what matters in life. As winter thaws out, there is no better time to safely gather and spark joy together. Events run from April 22nd to May 2nd and are free to the general public with performances in person and online.
This event is free. Visit the Fine Arts Center Box Office to claim your spot in the audience of this and other Rights of Spring Festival events. |
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