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Check out these photos of our actors hard at work during rehearsals for the Second Annual Short Play Festival, opening Friday!

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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.

The final weekend of “Marcus is Walking” has been rescheduled.

Thursday, December 3
Friday, December 4
Saturday, December 5

All shows begin at 8:00 PM. All tickets are $10.00 for students and $15.00 for general admission. Some material is not suitable for children under 12.

For reservations:
Please call 663-3240 or go click here.

Written by Joan Ackermann and directed by Kathy O’Mara, the play consists of 11 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.

Some of the scenes explored are 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 a friendship with a homeless woman who sleeps in his car.

The cast includes 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 Abbigail Kelly.

Main Street Stage, located at 57 Main Street, North Adams, announces today an open casting call for their summer production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The auditions will be held on Saturday May 9th and Sunday May 10th from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. A prepared classical monologue is encouraged, but not required. Actors will be asked to read sides from the script. The production is scheduled to open the last weekend into July and run for three weekends. For further information please call 413-663-3240 or email info@mainstreetstage.org.

Attention Playwrights!

Main Street Stage presents its First Annual Short Play Festival, featuring pieces written by you!

Submit your one-act plays (15 to 30 minutes in length) by November 15th for a chance to see them performed by living, breathing people this January!  E-mail all scripts to aulde272 at strose.edu, or mail them, along with a SASE, to: Short Play Festival, P.O. Box 137, North Adams, MA 01247. Include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail on all submissions. Multiple submissions are not only accepted, but encouraged. For any questions or concerns, contact Eric K. Auld at (518) 610-2574.

artwork by Max Beckmann, ColumbineThe Red Room is back! Saturday April 5 at 8 p.m. the doors will open for an hour of life drawing and light refreshments. At 9 p.m the show begins – original skits, live music, poetry, readings and more. The Red Room continues on Saturdays through April with a different show every week. Tickets are $10.

Main Street Stage is holding open auditions for its 2007 season on Thursday, February 8th at 7 p.m. and Saturday, February 10th at 1 p.m. All ages are welcome.  For more info call Bruce MacDonald at (413) 663-3240.