MCLA Theatre Announces Two Spring Productions

EURYDICE Thursday, April 16, 7:30pm Friday, April 17, 7:30pm Saturday, April 18, 7:30pm Sunday, April 19, 2pm Venable Theatre, MCLA FREE. MCLA Theatre invites you to experience EURYDICE by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Professor of Theatre, Laura Standley, Fine and Performing Arts Department faculty member and Core Creative Arts Domain…

MCLA Theatre Program Presents “The Method Gun.” 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ (MCLA) Theatre program announced its second show of the 2024-2025 season, “The Method Gun.”  This work by Kirk Lynn and the Rude Mechs, re-imagined under the direction of Professor Laura Standley, will take place Dec. 6 and 7 at 8 p.m.…

MCLA Theatre & Music Departments Announce 2023-2024 Season

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre and Music departments announced the 2023-2024 season of performances with four productions including visiting performing artists, guest directors, and student directors in addition to two student concerts.   The fall season opens on Nov. 3 with a MainStage production titled…

MCLA Theatre Presents “Urinetown”

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…

MCLA Theatre Debuts “The Left Hand of Darkness”as a Developmental Workshop

NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre will debut “The Left Hand of Darkness” this weekend as a developmental workshop in conjunction with Associate Professor of Theatre, Laura Standley, her directing students, and the Theatre Lab.   The show dates are Dec. 2 at 8 p.m., Dec.…

REVIEW: “Lysistrata” at MCLA

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…

REVIEW: “The Skin of Our Teeth” at MCLA

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…