Category — Shows

December 10, 11, 17 and 18
Doors open at 8:00 pm. Show starts at 8:30

Get relief from your holiday traumas with The Red (and Green) Room — locally written skits, songs, music, and dance that take a tongue-in-cheek look at the ups and downs of the holiday season.

Let the Main Street Stage acting company divert you with everything from “A Caroler’s Lament” to “Dickens’s American Idol.” After an intermission filled with light refreshments and lots of good cheer, Kelli Newby’s one-act play A Critic’s Carol imagines what would happen if a small theatre company, much like our own, cast the local theater critic as Scrooge in their production of A Christmas Carol. (Any resemblances to real critics, living or spectral, might be coincidental.)

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Preview Weekend October 16 -and17 with special pricing:

Saturday at 8 pm: all seats $10
Sunday at 2pm: all seats $10

October 22 – 30:

Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm: $15 / $10 seniors and students
Thursday October 28 at 8 pm: Pay What You Can Night
Sunday October 24 at 2 pm: $15 / $10 seniors and students

On the Verge follows the adventures of three Victorian women explorers into what they believe to be Terra Incognita, a new, unexplored land.  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.

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The play is directed by Don Jordan and will feature local actors Justina Trova, Wendy Walraven, Jennifer Mattern and Todd Hamilton.

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Saturday September 11 at 11 a.m. Come Dance with a Clown

$5 for kids, $7 adults and grandparents free!! Available at the door.

Yes, it’s grandparents day! Kids invite your grandma and grandpa to enjoy a delightful performance featuring clowns, puppets, music and more. Clowns Shmurple, Mambo and Bowtie visit some pesky puppets, including The Encyclopoodle (the dog who knows everything), the Ductionary (the duck who knows every word in the English language), and Taco Caramba, the most ferocious pirate parrot to fly the seven seas! Join them as they struggle to find out what a “compromise” is, brave the Big Dark Scary Cave and Dance With a Clown!

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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.

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

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

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).

Main Street Stage’s Second Annual Short Play Festival will be held Friday March 5, Saturday March 6, Friday March 12 and Saturday March 13 a 8 p.m. and will feature 5 new, original short plays that range from the absurd to the dramatic. Come see the plays chosen from over 400 entries. Tickets are $15. For reservations please call 413-663-3240 or click here. Seating is limited.

After receiving over 400 submissions this year from around the country the play reading committee chose five plays to be in the festival.

“We Appear to Have Company” by Greg Freier, Directed by Sarah Rae Brown
An older English couple suddenly happen to find a mysterious clown reading Dostoyevsky on the other side of their living room. It is up to them to determine who he is, how he got there, and when exactly he is going to leave.

“Restraining Orders” by Ruben Carbajal, Directed by Andrew Bigelow
Alex, a hard-working stalker, is offended to learn that Angela hasn’t noticed his obvious advances for the past seven months. As Alex is about to learn, though, Angela still manages to have a couple of secrets up her sleeve.

“Something Like Loneliness” by Ryan Dowler, Directed by Sarah Rae Brown
In a world where the most intimate of moments can be kept and sealed in Tupperware containers, Dan and Mia, two neighbors, discuss what to trade with one another in an attempt to perk up their lonely lives.

“The Shoe” by Ralph Tropf, Directed by Alexia Trainor
In this film-noir version of a classic fairy tale, an experienced private detective must seek out and find a runaway woman for the Prince of Wall Street—and see if the shoe fits.

“Drip Torch” by Trey Tatum, Directed by Jeremy Kerr
Patrick and Sullivan have been friends since childhood, but now Patrick is about to move halfway across the country. In an attempt to leave his past behind him, though, Sullivan reminds Patrick that maybe letting go is not as easy as it seems.

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.