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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!

UPDATE 2! Review by Larry Murray in Berkshire Onstage

UPDATE! Story from The Advocate

Winner of the Obie Award, The Baltimore Waltz is a giddy, fleet fantasy based on the love and adventures of a brother and sister, one of whom has a fatal disease. In the opening scene, the brother is wearing pajamas, but it is his schoolteacher sister who’s diagnosed with a deadly virus that sends the two of them spinning off to Europe to find romance and a cure before the final crashing scenes where reality sets in.

Performance dates are June 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26 at 8 p.m. and Sunday June 20th at 2 p.m.  Tickets are $10 for students, $15 for seniors and $20 for adults.  Thursday June 24 is community pay what you can night.  For reservations please call the box office at 413-663-3240 or go to mainstreetstage.org and click on reservations.  This show contains adult subject matter and is not suitable for children.

The play is directed by Wendy Walraven and the cast includes Mollie O. Remillard as Anna, Michael Trainor as Carl and Jack Sleigh as The Third Man.  Set Design by Julianna Haubrich and Lighting Design by Julie Seitel.

See the article in Berkshire On Stage

Main Street Stage will have an open casting call for their late summer production of Eric Overmyer’s On the Verge. The show will be  directed by Spencer Trova.  Auditions will be held Tuesday June 1 from 6 p.m to 9 p.m at Main Street Stage, 57 Main Street, North Adams.

The cast includes three woman ages 25-40 and one man aged 25-40 to play 8 different characters.

Mary –Often construed as the main lady explorer of the expedition, Mary Baltimore constantly cites her favorite periodical (the fictional newspaper The Boston Geo) as a source of wisdom.

Alex–The youngest of the group, and she allows her age to make up a considerable amount of her personality. She is typically forgetful, and tends to daydream.

Fanny– The most conservative of the group in all aspects: socially, politically, and morally. She is the only married member of the group.

Male characters include:
Alphonse, Grover, The Yeti, The Gorge Troll, Mr. Coffee, Madame Nhu, Gus, and Nicky Paradise

Show Synopsis

Three Victorian lady explorers set out on an adventure that takes them to darkest Africa, highest Himalaya and Terra Incognita. Blending Tom Stoppard’s limber linguistics with the historic overview of a Thornton Wilder, Mr Overmyer takes his audience on a mirthful safari…spinning into time travel.

Resumes and headshots and welcome, but not required.  Sides will be provided.  Please call 413-663-3240 for more information and to leave a message.

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

Looks best in full screen (start the slideshow and click the little icon on the bottom right).

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.