Chesterwood Presents “Director’s Insight” with Tina Packer

STOCKBRIDGE, MA (July 10, 2024) – Chesterwood, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, continues its popular performing arts series, Arts Alive!, with a special evening with Shakespeare & Company‘s founder and director Tina Packer, who will bring her cast for The Winter’s Tale to the garden at Chesterwood to share her insights…

REVIEW: “Survival of the Unfit” at Great Barrington Public Theater

by Emily Edelman The North American premiere of Oren Safdie’s “Survival of the Unfit” from Great Barrington Public Theater showcases the story of 39-year-old Samuel, who brings new girlfriend Mallory home to have dinner with his parents. What seems in the beginning to be an  ordinary dinner with passive aggressive parents, their…

SLOC Seeks Student Production Staff for Mean Girls

SLOC Musical Theater is thrilled to continue to offer students the opportunity to work closely as a member of our production staff for this year’s youth production of Mean Girls in November! Applicants must fill out this form to express interest and indicate which area of the production they are…

A Performed Staged Reading of a Musical Memoir “Keep Your Heart Open” Comes to the A.P.E. Gallery

Keep Your Heart Open: A Performed Staged Reading of a Musical Memoir by Marcia Gomes Venue: A.P.E. Gallery, 126 Main St, Northampton, MA 01060 July 27, 2024, 7PM & July 28, 2024, 3PM with talk back after performances $10-$20 suggested donation Keep Your Heart Open: An Urgent, Healing Family Conversation Four…

An Historic Supreme Court Case Gets the        Theatrical Treatment in “Griswold”

It’s 1960. America is on the eve of a sexual revolution, and an improbable but unstoppable 60-year-old woman, Estelle Griswold, decides to challenge the late 19th century Connecticut law that criminalized contraception. Angela J. Davis’ timely new play, GRISWOLD, is a moving, humorous, and thrillingly theatrical look at Estelle Griswold’s…

K and E Theater Group Presents “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

First it was Northampton in 2022, and now in 2024… it’s time for Easthampton to get Hedwig’s Angry Inch! K and E Theater Group Presents Hedwig and the Angry Inch at CitySpace Easthampton Blue Room, 43 Main Street, Easthampton, MA July 25-27, 2024, for 3 Performances Only! Innovative, heartbreaking, and savagely funny, Hedwig…