PS21 Unveils 2022 Summer Season

PS21 announces season lineup, including expanded community programming for residents of Columbia County, U.S. company debuts, world and North American premieres, international artists, and performances of work developed in our growing artists’ residency program. More than 50 events, staged to conform to current safety protocols, in the theater, in our…

Upstate Theater Coalition for a Restart Applauds Senate and Assembly ‘One House” Budget Proposals

The Upstate Theater Coalition for a Restart, representing downtown historic theaters from Buffalo to Poughkeepsie, thank elected officials from both the Assembly and the Senate for supporting a fund to assist these theaters in the slow recovery from the Covid impacted restart. The Assembly proposed a 20 million dollar fund…

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Receives the 2022 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award 

Cherkaoui will be honored at the season-opening Gala on June 18, where performers will include dance luminaries inaugurating the renovated Ted Shawn Theatre  March 15, 2022 (BECKET, Mass.)—Jacob’s Pillow announces Belgian and Moroccan choreographer, dancer, and director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as the recipient of the 2022 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.…

Fifteen Years of Family Music & Stories in Western MA

[Western MA] – For the past 15 years, broadcasting weekly on Valley Free Radio, the Hilltown Family Variety Show (HFVS) has delivered local families and beyond a commercial-free alternative to Saturday morning cartoons! Sometimes educational and always entertaining, HFVS started as a half-hour evening show, co-hosted by a local mother-daughter duo. It has since…

Half Million Dollar Investments Bring Mahaiwe Forward

Great Barrington, Mass.—Three major infrastructure projects have a tangible impact at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, the restored Southern Berkshire cultural hub originally built in 1905. Thanks to significant underwriting from foundation, business, and individual funders, every single light in the building is newly installed to the best standards in…

The LAVA Center to Host New Play about Birth Mothers and Adoption for its series

Greenfield, MA — The LAVA Center is proud to present theatrical readings of an original play, Every Moment of Every Day, as part of its Social Justice in the Arts and Media series. Stories of women who relinquished their babies to adoption weave together to illuminate this landscape of loss,…

Galway Players Seek Volunteer Pit Musicians for “The Addams Family”

The Galway Players are looking for volunteers to serve as pit musicians for their upcoming production of “The Addams Family”. We are especially in need of a drummer/percussionist and keyboard II player. Other parts also available include Bass, Guitar, Reed I, Trombone, Trumpet and Violin. Rehearsals are Sundays at the…

Will Kempe’s Players seeking Two Stage Managers for 2022 Summer Tour

Will Kempe’s Players is seeking two(2) Stage Managers for their 2022 Summer Tour. We are producing The Comedy of Errors and Titus Andronicus. The responsibilities of the Stage Manager will be to attend all rehearsals for their assigned production, and with the help of a company assistant stage manager, manage the rehearsals space and performers as well…