SHORT & SWEET (tiny) NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

Livestream

February 12-14 @ 7:30 pm 12 actors, 15 short plays representing the finalists chosen from over 400 pieces submitted in 2019 from as far away as New Zealand. Friday, February 12 will feature 8 plays directed by Julian Findlay. Saturday, February 13 will have 7 plays under the direction of Ben Ware. Each night the audience members will have a chance to vote for their top 4 favorite shows, and Sunday, February 14, the top 8 shows (plus 1!) will be streamed again! The schedule of Sunday's plays is as follows: A Gift, by Joshua Prouser (Enfield, CT) Jacob brings a special gift for his father David in the memory-care facility where the older man scarcely recognizes him. Jacob- [read more]

The Waiting Room

Zoom

The Waiting Room An interactive play in two worlds Written and directed by Steve Wangh March 26, 27, April 2 & 3 at 7:30 pm March 28 & April 4 at 3:00 pm The Waiting Room invites audiences to enter the Bardo, the liminal space between one earthly life and the next. It's a fantastical live-on-Zoom play, a comedic, gender-bending, theatrical tour-de-force in which actors and audience can all reflect on the repercussions of the annus horribilis we’ve just endured, and perhaps even alter our personal karma. Creatively testing the limits of the Zoom platform, this dramatic experiment in cyber-rebirth takes us beyond our personal and societal divisions to affirm the very essence of what it means to be [read more]

The Waiting Room

Zoom

The Waiting Room An interactive play in two worlds Written and directed by Steve Wangh March 26, 27, April 2 & 3 at 7:30 pm March 28 & April 4 at 3:00 pm The Waiting Room invites audiences to enter the Bardo, the liminal space between one earthly life and the next. It's a fantastical live-on-Zoom play, a comedic, gender-bending, theatrical tour-de-force in which actors and audience can all reflect on the repercussions of the annus horribilis we’ve just endured, and perhaps even alter our personal karma. Creatively testing the limits of the Zoom platform, this dramatic experiment in cyber-rebirth takes us beyond our personal and societal divisions to affirm the very essence of what it means to be [read more]

The Waiting Room

Zoom

The Waiting Room An interactive play in two worlds Written and directed by Steve Wangh March 26, 27, April 2 & 3 at 7:30 pm March 28 & April 4 at 3:00 pm The Waiting Room invites audiences to enter the Bardo, the liminal space between one earthly life and the next. It's a fantastical live-on-Zoom play, a comedic, gender-bending, theatrical tour-de-force in which actors and audience can all reflect on the repercussions of the annus horribilis we’ve just endured, and perhaps even alter our personal karma. Creatively testing the limits of the Zoom platform, this dramatic experiment in cyber-rebirth takes us beyond our personal and societal divisions to affirm the very essence of what it means to be [read more]

The Waiting Room

Zoom

The Waiting Room An interactive play in two worlds Written and directed by Steve Wangh March 26, 27, April 2 & 3 at 7:30 pm March 28 & April 4 at 3:00 pm The Waiting Room invites audiences to enter the Bardo, the liminal space between one earthly life and the next. It's a fantastical live-on-Zoom play, a comedic, gender-bending, theatrical tour-de-force in which actors and audience can all reflect on the repercussions of the annus horribilis we’ve just endured, and perhaps even alter our personal karma. Creatively testing the limits of the Zoom platform, this dramatic experiment in cyber-rebirth takes us beyond our personal and societal divisions to affirm the very essence of what it means to be [read more]

The Waiting Room

Zoom

The Waiting Room An interactive play in two worlds Written and directed by Steve Wangh March 26, 27, April 2 & 3 at 7:30 pm March 28 & April 4 at 3:00 pm The Waiting Room invites audiences to enter the Bardo, the liminal space between one earthly life and the next. It's a fantastical live-on-Zoom play, a comedic, gender-bending, theatrical tour-de-force in which actors and audience can all reflect on the repercussions of the annus horribilis we’ve just endured, and perhaps even alter our personal karma. Creatively testing the limits of the Zoom platform, this dramatic experiment in cyber-rebirth takes us beyond our personal and societal divisions to affirm the very essence of what it means to be [read more]

The Waiting Room

Zoom

The Waiting Room An interactive play in two worlds Written and directed by Steve Wangh March 26, 27, April 2 & 3 at 7:30 pm March 28 & April 4 at 3:00 pm The Waiting Room invites audiences to enter the Bardo, the liminal space between one earthly life and the next. It's a fantastical live-on-Zoom play, a comedic, gender-bending, theatrical tour-de-force in which actors and audience can all reflect on the repercussions of the annus horribilis we’ve just endured, and perhaps even alter our personal karma. Creatively testing the limits of the Zoom platform, this dramatic experiment in cyber-rebirth takes us beyond our personal and societal divisions to affirm the very essence of what it means to be [read more]

The Waiting Room – Playwright Discussion Session

Zoom

Silverthorne Theater Company invites audience members of The Waiting Room to a special one-hour discussion session with playwright & director Steve Wangh on Tuesday, April 6, beginning at 7:30 p.m. EDT. Join us for The Waiting Room afterlife! Who, or what, am I? Why am I here incarnate? Whither am I destined? Why is there birth and why is there death? — From an introduction to The Tibetan Book of the Dead As the Valley Advocate put it recently, The Waiting Room is “a comedy with philosophical depths, a drama with an antic edge.” After experiencing the Bardo with us, you may be bursting with questions, both profound and practical – from the meaning of life to the mechanics [read more]

When We Get Good Again

YouTube

Theater Thursdays Play Reading Series When We Get Good Again by James McLindon, Directed by Mark Dean May 13, 2021 @ 7:30 p.m. Silverthorne Theater Company's 2021 Theater Thursdays play reading series kicks off on May 13, with When We Get Good Again by Northampton playwright James McLindon. This free event will be available to watch starting at 7:30 p.m. on the Silverthorne Theater Company YouTube channel.  Tracy can’t wait to graduate and leave the rich kids at her prestigious school in her rear view mirror. In fact, she’s planning on graduating in three years, and only partly because that’s all the college she can afford. But there’s one problem: Tracy needs to keep her 4.0 GPA intact to [read more]

Auditions – A Broadway Cabaret

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Silverthorne Theater Company presents A Broadway Cabaret What better way to celebrate the return of live theater than with music? In our first major post-pandemic production, Silverthorne Theater Company presents A Broadway Cabaret, onstage August 6-8 in The Perch at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center in downtown Greenfield. Eight singer/actors will perform tunes from Broadway’s Golden Age shows - solos and ensemble numbers presented for audiences seated at cabaret tables arranged for maximum comfort and following whatever state guidelines for indoor performance are in place at that time. Auditions for A Broadway Cabaret are scheduled for Sunday, June 6 and Monday, June 7, from 7 pm - 9 pm each night. Auditioners register at [email protected] or by calling [read more]

Auditions – A Broadway Cabaret

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Silverthorne Theater Company presents A Broadway Cabaret What better way to celebrate the return of live theater than with music? In our first major post-pandemic production, Silverthorne Theater Company presents A Broadway Cabaret, onstage August 6-8 in The Perch at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center in downtown Greenfield. Eight singer/actors will perform tunes from Broadway’s Golden Age shows - solos and ensemble numbers presented for audiences seated at cabaret tables arranged for maximum comfort and following whatever state guidelines for indoor performance are in place at that time. Auditions for A Broadway Cabaret are scheduled for Sunday, June 6 and Monday, June 7, from 7 pm - 9 pm each night. Auditioners register at [email protected] or by calling [read more]

Gridlock

The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States

Silverthorne Theater Company and LAVA present: Gridlock by Ellen Meeropol Directed by Jan Maher June 11, 2021 7:30 p.m. Set in an unspecified re-purposed building in a small Western Massachusetts town, Northampton author and playwright Ellen Meeropol’s Gridlock tackles issues of climate change and radical activism as two sisters reunite after a fifty-year separation. On Friday, June 11, a public reading of this work-in-development will give audience members and artists the chance to hear and comment on this new play. The reading will take place at 7:30 pm at the LAVA Center at 324 Main St, Greenfield. The reading is free and open to the public, but seating capacity is very limited, so reservations are advised by calling 413-768-7514 [read more]

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