LAVA Arts Center Seeks Bridges Director

LAVA Arts Center/Real TheaterBridges Director SoughtJanuary 2022 A director is sought for a series of staged readings of a play about Israel/Palestine to be held over one-two weekends in March or early April at the LAVA Art Center in Greenfield. Stipend available. Please email if interested by early January. christinebenvenuto@hotmail.com

Dinos Downtown and at Home: The 5th Annual Great Greenfield DinoFest Descends

Dinosaurs for the holidays! Piti Theatre Company & Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association are bringing DinoFest back to town – and to much of the rest of the world online –  on Saturday and Sunday, December 11 & 12. Blending science, arts, and community-building, DinoFest 2021 will feature Piti Theatre’s film adaptation…

Silverthorne Theater Presents Reading of “Testimonies” at the LAVA Center

Testimoniesby Ellen W. Kaplandirected by Hilary DennisNovember 18, 20217:30 p.m. The LAVA Center324, Main Street, Greenfield, MA Testimonies is based on interviews with Ezidi (Yezidi) women in camps in Northern Iraq, in 2019. The Ezidi are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority who trace their roots back to ancient Mesopotamia. They practice a…

Watch Silverthorne Theater’s “Fourteen Wedding Dresses” Play Reading

Greenfield, MA – Local playwright and long-time Silverthorne Theater Company member Steve Henderson penned a truly unique play, Fourteen Wedding Dresses, for the third second of STC’s Theater Thursday new play reading series. Jimmy and Vivian are frightened teenagers running away from their small town home in Kentucky to get married.  They fear…

Silverthorne Theater Announces Auditions for “The Mystery of Irma Vep”

Greenfield – Silverthorne Theater Company’s first production for the 2021-22 Season will be Charles Ludlum’s hilarious two-hander The Mystery of Irma Vep, scheduled for October 1-16, 2021, in The Perch at the Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center, Greenfield.  The Mystery of Irma Vep is the definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas and vintage horror movies. It’s a madcap…

The LAVA Center Reprises Online Short Play Festival “Facing the Future: Climate Change Theater”

GREENFIELD, MA — The LAVA Center is proud to reprise our second online short play festival, “Facing the Future: Climate Change Theater.” In plays penned by 13 playwrights from 3 continents, characters from cerulean warblers, insects, brown bull catfish, and fire to a wide age range of humans plus a…