North Adams— On June 8th at 7 p.m., MCLA Arts & Culture and MASS MoCA present the debut of Peter Glazer’s play, “The Celestials” adapted from Williamstown author Karen Shepard’s mesmerizing novel which shines a light on the history of North Adams and Chinese laborers. “The Celestials” is set in North Adams…
Urinetown the Musical Friday, April 21, 8pm Saturday, April 22, 8pm Friday, April 28, 8pm Saturday, April 29, 8pm Sunday, April 30, 2pm MCLA, Venable Theatre Tickets: $10 A terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought, is the premise of the Spring Mainstage production. Join the cast of talented…
Join us for this twilight event featuring abstract lantern puppets, poetry and sound — all under the nighttime sky. The New England Puppet Intensive‘s Lantern Pop-Up is an opportunity to celebrate this unique moment, as we emerge from a long year of social isolation and pandemic challenges. It’s an opportunity…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2005 This was at least the fourth production of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown that I have seen. As a child I saw the original off-Broadway production with Gary Burghoff (later “Radar” on M*A*S*H*), Reva Rose, and Skip and Bill Hinnant. As a senior in…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2000 “Lysistrata” is always a fun show. This seems pretty remarkable since it was first performed in 411 B.C.E., but when you consider that its subject is sex, it all becomes perfectly clear. Sex is wonderful and awful, but most of all it is…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 1999 This is an amazing play – a play about everything and nothing, about the daily grind and the larger cosmic issues, about family and government and religion and floods and glaciers and the extinction of the dinosaurs… When it first appeared on the…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1998 In what is becoming a holiday tradition, local artists have once again staged “Amahl and the Night Visitors” in Venable Hall on the MCLA campus as part of the Smith House Concert series. It is a shame that the seats were so very…
