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December 9 - 29, 2021
It's Nutcracker week at the Academy of Music! Come see the show this weekend - Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 1pm and 4pm, Sunday at 1pm. I'm stage managing!
Chris Rohmann's preview of holiday shows in the area can be found in the Valley Advocate. Go check out The Thanksgiving Play at Smith - it's only open to Five College COVID testing program participants in person, but there are tickets available to stream the final two performances this Thursday and Friday at 7pm!
The next issue will include events from December 16 - January 5. 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 Mother of All Emotions
by Betty Shamieh
From the article:
For a long time, I thought of my beloved extended theatre community as my family. When you get rejected as a painter or a poet, you might feel badly. You might punch a wall or cry uncontrollably as you question your self-worth, talent, and life choices. Hopefully, you eventually shake it off and get back to work. But, when your “family” doesn’t invite you to play with them (and, when it comes down to the brass tracks, what do we seemingly responsible adults actually do together when we make theatre except play?), it impacts more than simply your psychic realms.
Have you read an interesting article about theatre recently? Send it to me! pioneervalleytheatre@gmail.com
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Bright Half Life
By Tanya Barfield
Directed by Gina Kaufmann
December 10-11, 2021
Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center
289 Main Street
Greenfield, MA 01301
This intimate and celebratory production is under the direction of Gina Kaufmann, who directed Silverthorne’s The Revolutionists in 2019. She is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a Professor of Theater (Acting and Directing) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a feminist who prioritizes social justice in her directing work and in her season planning. Throughout her thirty-year career as a director, almost every project Gina chose to work on was selected at least in part by her desire to wrestle with gender, gender hierarchies and revising form and expectations to open up our minds to new models of relating to one another.
Featured in this production are Kyle Boatwright in the role of Vicky, and Katie Mack, a member of the Actors Equity Association, as Erica. Boatwright is a Pioneer Valley-based musician, actor, coach, and creative collaborator. She was last seen on the Silverthorne stage in The Revolutionists (2019) and recently directed Smith College’s production of Stoop Pigeons. This will be Katie Mack’s first time working with Silverthorne, but Valley theater-goers will remember her performances at The Majestic in West Springfield. Ezekiel Baskin is stage manager and John Iverson will provide technical direction.
Moving seamlessly from head-over-heels romance to marriage to children to skydiving and so many little intimacies in between, the two characters, Vicky and Erica, span decades in an instant and slowly, delightfully, allow us to know and love them. Bright Half Life is a joyful and complicated chronicle of a deeply committed lesbian relationship.
“If these women, these maybe soul mates, could somehow suddenly see what the years will bring, would they still go out on that first date?” The New York Times
Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite.
Friday, December 10, 2021 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, December 11, 2021 @ 7:30 PM
Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for more details.
https://silverthornetheater.org/event/bright-half-life/
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Phantom Sheep Productions presents LaughCrafters Holiday Show
December 16 at 6:00 PM
Agawam Senior Center, 954 Main St. Agawam
Celebrate the season and laugh off that holiday stress! In our annual tradition, we're performing a FREE community show for all of you with sketches and lots of live improvised unscripted scenes created on the spot based on audience interaction!
Facebook event
Phantom Sheep is also hosting a drop-in workshop on Monday Dec. 6th at Unity House Players with more classes and shows expected in the new year.
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K and E Theater Group Presents BELIEVE: A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
With a concept by David Cavallin, Ken Comia, Melissa Dupont, David Webber and Eddie Zitka, celebrate the season with a K and E Theater Group take on "festivating" the holidays in this new annual tradition.
Let us transport you to our first K and E Theater Group holiday party where our eight performers will harmonize and pay homage to traditional and contemporary holiday music! Be filled with the spirit of the holidays!
Our inaugural production of BELIEVE: A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION features David Cavallin, Melissa Dupont, Christopher Marcus, Nicole Newell, Kathy Renaud, Tina Sparkle, Chris Webber, and David Webber. David Cavallin serves as music director and arranger. K and E Theater Group Artistic Director Eddie Zitka directs.
Tickets are general admission for $22.00. There is no reserved seating. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.KETG.org.
** Proof of vaccination and face coverings that cover the nose and mouth will be required for entrance and while seated at the Northampton Center for the Arts.
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Virtual Theater
The Association of the Boston Public Library present
ONWARD - Votes for Women
written and directed by Lisa Rafferty
music by Adam R. McDonald
now-December 14
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote, was finally passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. Onward -- Votes for Women offers the powerful and inspiring perspectives of the extraordinary women who fought for 70 years for equality. For a streaming link, email birchtreeprods@gmail.com. Tickets: free.
Arlekin Players present
Witness
by Nana Grinstein, Blair Cadden, and Igor Golyak
Dec. 10-Jan. 23
directed by Igor Golyak
Witness, the latest project from Arlekin’s Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab, is a new documentary theater piece about Jewish immigration in the face of antisemitism. The piece is inspired by the journey of the MS St. Louis, which left Hamburg in 1939 with over 900 Jewish people on board and headed to Cuba only to be turned away, leaving the passengers stranded with nowhere to go and no escape. Witness shares stories of Jewish immigrants from around the globe through an interactive virtual theater experience at the nexus of film, theater, and video games.
Tickets: $12-$45.
North Shore Readers Theatre presents
Covenant
by John Minigan
December 11
directed by Arlene Barnard
Jordan’s mission to infiltrate and report on an apocalyptic religious community has ended in disaster. Questions from an unseen interrogator trigger and inform Jordan’s memories of her time undercover and force her to decide whether the beliefs that guided her mission are any less dangerous than the beliefs of those in the group. How do we become entrenched in the beliefs we hold and what, if anything, can get us to walk away when our beliefs lead to chaos and destruction? Tickets: free, donation suggested.
Portland Stage Company presents
Searching for Mr. Moon
by Willy Holtzman and Rich Topol
now-December 5
directed by Julia Gibson
Featuring Broadway star Richard Topol. At the moment of his daughter’s birth, Rich Topol searches for a father to replace the one he lost and finds two: his famous father-in-law Lukas Foss and himself. Foss’ eclectic music underscores Rich’s funny and poignant journey to fatherhood. Searching for Mr. Moon is a play for anyone who has contemplated the mysteries of parenthood and mortality or is curious about the lives of contemporary classical music icons and Broadway stars. Tickets: $20-$68.
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