My favorite plays come from the smaller theatres within our scope of activity: Ancram Center for the Arts offered Constellations directed by Jeffrey Mousseau featuring Andrus Nicholls and Drew Ledbetter. The play moves back andf forth in time. The artistry of Mousseau, Nichols and Ledbetter gave depth to the characters’ conflicts and…
The 2024 Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards, aka The Berkies, were presented on Monday, November 11 in the Zion Lutheran Church Community Room, on First Street in Pittsfield MA. Presenters included J. Peter Bergman, Paul Sugarman, Mark G. Auerbach, and Berkshire on Stage critics Macey G. Levin, Barbara Waldinger, and Paula…
Valley PlayersConstellations 10/11 @ 7pm, 10/12 @ 7pm, 10/13 @ 2pm, 10/18 @ 7pm, 10/19 @ 7pm, 10/20 @2pmMunson Memorial Library (1046 South East Street, Amherst) The Valley Players’ present Constellations, Nick Payne’s play about fate, free will, love, multiverse theory, and honey. Constellations runs October 11–20, Fridays and Saturdays…
by Macey Levin Though in London, Roland and Mary live in two different worlds. He, a beekeeper, is rooted in his earthbound, everyday work while she is a theoretical physicist who studies the cosmological theories of the universe. They are the only two characters in Nick Payne’s Constellations currently riveting the audience…
British playwright Nick Payne’s award-winning Constellations (Best Play, 2012 Evening Standard Theatre Awards) follows the romantic relationship of Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne, a physicist. This love story winds across a quantum universe, in which every outcome is equally possible. The New Yorker called Constellations “A singular astonishment.” Stars and real-life married couple Andrus Nichols…
The Valley Players has announced that their first production will be Nick Payne’s award-winning play Constellations. Open auditions for the eight-person cast will be held in August and the show goes up in October at the Munson Memorial Library in Amherst. Anyone who wants to find out more about the auditions or…
Ancram Center for the Arts today announced its 2024 season, an eclectic mix of productions and collaborations that will feature three new works developed during Ancram Center’s Summer Play Lab residencies; “Downtown Upstate,” a alternative performance festival bringing the best of NYC downtown theatre artists to the Hudson Valley; Nick…
by Emily Edelman Nick Payne’s “Constellations,” currently being staged by Living Room Theatre in North Bennington, Vermont, was written to be played by two actors working through the relationship of physicist Marianne and beekeeper Roland. LRT utilizes six actors (three for each part), which might be confusing in any other…
