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Pirates! Returns to Main Street Stage Friday July 30th at 11 a.m.

Written and directed by Don Jordan,  Pirates! is a swashbuckling adventure featuring bold buccaneers, a mysterious map with a riddle, cursed treasure, a visit to an island that you can’t see, a pirate ghost, and a magical journey to the bottom of the sea. This sea-faring tale features mime, music, masks, and delightful puppets created by Clothespin Puppets.

Yes, the Redroom returns after a long hiatus!  This is the Mommy Redroom: a locally written variety show exploring all things pregnancy and babies.  Thursday August 5, Friday August 6 and Saturday August 7 the doors will open at 8:30 for life drawing and the show will begin at 9 p.m.

$10 includes a live model, art supplies, food, drink and show.

The winners of the Main Street Stage raffle are:

• Grand Prize (Richie Havens concert and dinner at Gramercy Bistro): Darcie S.
• 2 tickets to Sweeney Todd at Barrington Stage: Dawn D.
• 2 tickets to Williamstown Theatre Festival: Paula J.
• 2 tickets to Shakespeare and Co.: Carol S.
• Season pass to Main Street Stage: John B.
• Season pass to Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe: Arlene C.
• Massage at Tsubo: Rich W.
• Massage at Flow Bodywork: Ron W.

Congratulations to all of our winners!

Stay tuned for upcoming events this summer supporting Main Street Stage!

Main Street Stage is having a fundraising event  to support it’s upcoming 2010-2011 season.

The Grand Prize is dinner  for two at Gramercy Bistro, $100 value, and two tickets to the Richie  Havens concert at Mass Moca on July 2.

Other wonderful prizes include:

• Two tickets to any weeknight performance at Williamstown  Theatre Festival

• Two tickets to Barrington Stage’s Sweeeney Todd

• One-hour massage at Tsubo in Williamstown

• One-hour massage from  Janice Thomas at Flow Bodywork

• Season tickets to Main Street Stage

• Season tickets to The Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe

Tickets are $5 or 5 for $20 and  can be purchased at Stone Soup in Adams, Shima in North Adams, Papyri Books in North Adams or by calling 413-663-3240.

Friday April 23 at 11 a.m.  Main Street Stage and Nutshell Playhouse present Pirates! Written and Directed by Don Jordan.

Calling all Berkshire County theatre people: The Berkshire 24 Hour Theatre project may not be happening until the 23rd and 24th of April, but the time to start thinking about it is now. Interested in working with people from across the county on a project that will only take 12 hours of your time? Interested in giving acting, writing or directing a try? Please contact Kelli Newby at 413-664-7745 or kelli (at) mainstreetstage (dot) org to express your interest.

The Berkshire 24 Hour Theatre project will begin at 7:00 PM on April 23rd as writers gather in Stone Soup at Topia in downtown Adams for a night of brainstorming and writing. At 7:00 the next morning, the writers will hand off their scripts to the pre-established acting and directing teams who will rehearse in spaces in downtown Adams. Everyone will rejoin at 7PM that evening for the big show.

Main Street Stage presents its Second Annual Short Play Festival. Audition for a role in one of several original, never-before-produced one-acts! These short plays were handpicked by company members from over 400 nationwide submissions as part of MSS’s annual playwriting contest. Auditions will be held on Saturday, January 30th and Sunday, January 31st from 12 to 4 PM at Main Street Stage, 57 Main Street, North Adams, MA. Performance dates will be the first two weekends of March. All actors are encouraged to prepare one contemporary monologue of one minute in length, no memorization required. For any questions or concerns, call Eric K. Auld at (518) 610-2574 or e-mail spf@mainstreetstage.org.

A community outreach collaboration of BCC Players and “VOICES” Theatre Company presents a staged reading of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens on Sunday, December 20 at 2 p.m. at Main Street Stage.

Adapted and directed by Sally Filkins
Co-directed by Judy McNutt

Proceeds benefit Maurice Alexander, an 11-month-old baby with a cancerous inoperable brain tumor.  Please help us raise money for this cause.

All tickets are Pay-what-you-can. No one is turned away for lack of money. Suggested donation $5.00.  Tickets may be purchased in advance at BCC’s Office Of Student Life 413-236-1660 or at the door.

Tax deductible checks may be made payable to:

“Compassionate Care Trust”
230 Mohawk Forest North Adams, MA 01247

Main Street Stage announces today their fall production Marcus is Walking, written by Joan Ackermann. The play will preview Thursday November 12th and open Friday November 13th. It will run Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays until November 21.

Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for students. All shows start at 8 p.m. Thursday November 12th is communtiy pay what you can night. To make a reservation please call the box office at 413-663-3240 or reserve online here.

Directed by Kathy O’Mara, the play consists of eleven vignettes and examines the emotional landscape we roam as we travel in our cars. Control, navigation, love and escape, are some of the themes explored.  The scenes include a protective father who guides his son through the neighborhood on Halloween; an actor on his way to perform Hamlet is in a rear-end collision and confrontation with a Czech cab driver; a devastated businessman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a homeless woman who sleeps in his car.

The cast includes Main Street Stage company members Michael Trainor, Wendy Walraven, Lisa Remillard, April Castanguay, Jack Sleigh, Sarah Rae Brown, Jeremy Kerr, Cassidy Matthew, Eric K. Auld, Julia Les, Todd Hamilton and newcomers Andrew Bigelow, Breana Gladu, and Abigail Kelly.

Dates for Marcus is Walking:

Thursday November 12, Preview, pay what you can

Friday November 13, Opening, $15/$10

Saturday November 14, $15/$10

Thursday November 19, $15/$10

Friday November 20, $15/$10

Saturday November 21, Closing, $15/$10

Catch Main Street Stage’s popular Redroom series performing at Topia Arts Center in Adams, this Friday, October 16th at 6 pm!  And then see us throughout the day in galleries in North Adams during Open Studios on Saturday and Sunday!

Several great events in store for the evening at Topia:

Presentation: “A Jewel In Downtown Adams”:

Tour the green building design through 3D renderings on Topia’s enormous film screen. Find out what you can expect from Topia Arts Center in the years to come. Learn about exciting programs that will be coming to Adams. Find out how you can help!

Silent Auction: Celebration of Self Expression

Silent auction of donated items: quilts, gift certificates, paintings, drawings, jewelry, services, facials, pedicures, massages, sculptures, home-made crafts, landscaping, home improvement, etc.

Refreshments will be served, cash bar.

The Redroom was rated at 5 out of 5 by the Berkshire Eagle’s “Region After Dark.” It is an artist’s playground where genre lines don’t matter. One audience member called it something you’d see in someone’s basement in Greenwich Village during the 1960’s. Full of readings, original skits and plays, improvisational rap, dance, local musicians and anything else we can get our hands on.

If you are interested in performing or having your work featured in The Redroom, please contact Kelli Newby at theredroomna@gmail.com