The Language of Wild Berries (Postponed)
LivestreamTheater Thursdays Play Reading Series The Language of Wild Berries by Naghmeh Samini Directed by Lucinda Kidder Postponed Performance Date TBD
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Auditions for Bright Half Life
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesBright Half Life Auditions Silverthorne Theater seeks White, female-identifying, Queer-identifying Equity and Non-Equity actors to audition for the role of Erica in Bright Half Life, a two-character play by Tanya Barfield, directed by Gina Kaufmann, with performances December 3, 4, 5, 10 and 11, 2021, at Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield, MA. Auditions will be on Saturday, September 18 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm at The LAVA Center, 324 Main Street in Greenfield, MA. Erica meets, falls in love and marries Vicky over the course of the play. Wants to be a teacher, a bit of a dreamer. Lots of energy, lots of fun. Her unpredictability is her best and worst feature. Erica identifies as a lesbian and is described by the playwright as “soft [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center 289 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful By Charles Ludlam Directed by Chris Rohmann October 1-16, 2021 The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap quick-change marathon in which two actors play all the roles: the lord and lady of the manor, the starchy maid, the groundskeeper-cum-werewolf, plus an ancient mummy and a lingering ghost. Tickets are available at the door and via Eventbrite. Friday, October 1, 8, 15 at 7:30 pm Saturday, October 2, 9, 16 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 3, 10 at 3:00 pm This production contains flashing lights, gunshot and smoke effects. Masks and Proof of Vaccination required for admittance. Click here for [read more]
Someone is Sure to Come
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesTheater Thursdays Play Reading Series Someone is Sure to Come by Ellen W. Kaplan directed by Hilary Dennis November 11, 2021 7:30 p.m. A lyrical play that looks at the challenges of serving interminable sentences. Fantasy and poetry combine to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of life “inside.” Click here to read the program. Five prisoners offer poetry and monologues about facing execution, the living death of life without parole, and decades in solitary confinement, while a young woman feels like she is going mad, having absorbed the experience of her friends inside. She is disoriented, powerless, afloat on an imaginary iceberg in the Arctic Ocean, seeing things, hearing voices, forgetting the facts of her life, utterly disoriented and powerless. [read more]
Testimonies
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesTheater Thursdays Play Reading Series Testimonies by Ellen W. Kaplan directed by Hilary Dennis November 18, 2021 7:30 p.m. Testimonies is based on interviews with Ezidi (Yezidi) women in camps in Northern Iraq, in 2019. This play reading includes sensitive subject matter. The Ezidi are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who trace their roots back to ancient Mesopotamia. They practice a pre-Islamic religion, that draws inspiration from Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Traditionally, Ezidi are farmers and shepherds, but in the mid-seventies Saddam Hussein had Ezidi villages destroyed and their inhabitants transferred to collective settlements. In August 2014, the Ezidi (Yezidi) people were subjected to genocide: thousands were massacred, kidnapped, enslaved, raped and tortured by the Islamic State (ISIS). [read more]