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By BELLA LEVAVI
BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School’s Performing Arts Department Director Eva Husson-Stockhamer advises attendees of the school’s fall theater production that “a great story will unfold before your eyes.”The Performing Arts Department will present...
By LIESEL NYGARD
GREENFIELD — As a way to educate the public on the climate crisis, The LAVA Center at 324 Main St. is hosting theater, film and photography events, all in the theme of climate change. For one, come December, the center will present 13 play readings as...
By MARY BYRNE
NORTHFIELD — With its fall production, Pioneer Valley Regional School will poke a little fun at students’ propensity for procrastination.The play, “How to Kill a Mockingbird,” tells the story of five students who are working together on a school...
By CHRIS LARABEE
SOUTH DEERFIELD — Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein walk into a bar — no, seriously! The two luminaries will walk into the French bar Lapin Agile at Frontier Regional School this weekend, as students put on a performance of “Picasso at the Lapin...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — A New York City music venue operator with more than two dozen theaters throughout the Northeast intends to buy the Calvin Theatre downtown and have shows up and running early next year.Calvin owner Eric Suher recently told the License...
By STEVE PFARRER
ASHFIELD — Double Edge Theatre, which has passed some significant milestones in the last few years — 40 years of total operation, 25 years of staging performances in Ashfield — is marking another important moment.Founder Stacy Klein, who started the...
By BELLA LEVAVI
In March 2020, Pothole Pictures was on the verge of celebrating 25 years as a volunteer-run community movie theater in Shelburne Falls when a state-wide COVID lockdown shuttered movie theaters just days before the opening night of its spring movie...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
TURNERS FALLS — Having been diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer about seven years ago, South Deerfield resident Frank Marchand, 67, doesn’t expect his life to last much longer. And yet, the 47-year plumber isn’t worried about what’s down the pipeline...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
TURNERS FALLS — With the return of Charley’s Tropical Bar and Chess Club at the Shea Theater Arts Center on Saturday, locals once again have a chance to detach from the baggage of everyday life.“Welcome to Charley’s — a cozy, one-night-only escape...
By AALIANNA MARIETTA
DEERFIELD — Audiences will embark on a magical mystery that twists famous fables when Arena Civic Theatre presents “Holka Polka,” the final play of its third Summer Youth Program.The play will be performed at Deerfield Elementary School on Friday,...
By BELLA LEVAVI
SHELBURNE — In partnership with the town, the Memorial Hall Association’s board of directors has launched a three-phase $1.2 million campaign to renovate the historic 400-seat theater.Located on Town Hall’s second floor, the theater serves as a civic...
By MARY BYRNE
GREENFIELD — Over weeks of collecting stories and experiences of teens in a local theater group, one issue seemed to resonate with students more than others: gun violence.“One day, the majority of the group came to rehearsal after there had been a...
By STEVE PFARRER
Like many theater organizations, Real Live Theater (RLT) was shut down from producing live performances for over two years due to the pandemic.But the Valley performance ensemble, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is swinging back into action,...
Play reading focuses on pandemic life BUCKLAND — A play reading about life during the COVID-19 pandemic, written and directed by Carmela Lanza-Weil, will be held at Buckland Town Hall on Friday, May 5, at 7 p.m. “These first-person stories — sometimes...
By DOMENIC POLI
ORANGE — About 63 Orange students in grades four through 12 have been working for four months to bring you a scrumdiddlyumptious rendition of “Willy Wonka Jr.” Director Julie Bouchard said she has held rehearsals six days a week to get ready for six...
By BELLA LEVAVI
BUCKLAND — Mohawk Trail Regional School is back for its second year producing a musical after not having an active theater program since before the pandemic struck.The school will present “Guys and Dolls Jr.” in the auditorium on Friday, May 5, and...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
GREENFIELD — After a successful premiere last summer, the Human Agenda Theater production “Mira and the Liminal Dimension” is back on stage to deliver an out-of-this-world experience.The show, directed by Kevin Van Develde and co-produced by a...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
Although he lives an ocean away, internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Iain Matthews hopes to feel right at home in his first trip to Turners Falls.The frontman of folk rock band Matthews Southern Comfort, perhaps best known for their...
By BELLA LEVAVI
ASHFIELD — Five Irish sisters, a faltering priest, an unreliable salesman and a young boy will make their stage debut Friday at Ashfield Community Theater’s first show since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Dancing at Lughnasa” will be performed...
By JULIAN MENDOZA
TURNERS FALLS — For one night, the village may feel like the center of the world as perspectives from three continents entwine during a youth performance at the Shea Theater Arts Center.“Mother Tongue,” a multilingual, multimedia performance that...
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