Comedy
Open Stage
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesA new open stage series! Like an open mic but MORE. Theater! Dance! Music! Literature! Spoken Word! Magic! Puppetry! Circus and Sideshow! Comedy! Improv! Any form of art or entertainment that can be staged, in any stage of development. Every 4th Thursday with your rotating hosts: Nisse Greenberg, Nina Gross, Ezra Prior, and Vanessa Query. Signup starts at 6:30, show starts at 7. 5 minute limit for each act. You can plug into our sound system if you’d like audio to backup your act- plugin using 1/8″ mic jack input, bring adapter if needed. Questions? Contact LAVA here. $5 suggested donation ($1 Card-to-Culture)
Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesNisse Greenberg and Trouble Mandeson are back hosting your favorite storytelling open mic and potluck in Greenfield! Come to the LAVA Center to tell a story or share a snack or just imbibe them both. Every 1st Thursday at The LAVA Center. Doors open and food is served at 6pm. Show will start at 7pm. All stories are meant to be true, personal stories from your own life. Show is pay-what-you-want. This program is sponsored in part by a grant from the Greenfield Cultural Council.
A Saturday Dose of Fun (improv games for grownups with Henry Balzarini)
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesWarning: This workshop may cause multiple moments of mirth, foster greater comfort in new situations, inspire creativity, lift your mood, release stress, make you more spontaneous, ease you into connecting enjoyably with other people and even make you laugh out loud. Using improv games, we will become a fast thinking, in the moment, loose goose brigade. You’ve been warned. Here’s a little more about the content of the workshop from Henry: Although I’ll be using improv based exercises, they’ll be mostly warmup and group game activities. Not really improv scene or narrative building work. We will end with one or two short form improv performance type games, however. Focus will be on loosening up and having fun. If you are looking for serious improv study this won’t be it, but might be a good way to ease into it. That all said, the main objective is fun on a Saturday afternoon. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday! $5–10 suggested donation per session. No improv experience necessary. Intended for adults. Limit of 15 please, so sign up now: email [email protected]. about your host: I’m Henry Balzarini and a native of Boston. In the 1980’s I lived in New York City where I…
3rd Mondays Talking Talkies with John Boschen: 42nd Street (1933)
Greenfield Garden Cinema 361 Main St., Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin movie historian John Boschen as we kick up our heels with the advent of the pre-code 1930's musical. Featuring Academy Award winner Waren Baxter (Old Arizona) across from the infectious Bebe Daniels (The Malteses Falcon). Nominated for Best Picture and Best Sound at the Academy Awards 42nd Street was preserved by the Library of Congress in 1998 on the National Film Registry. The American film Institute lists it as the 13th best musical of all time. With 96% on Rotton Tomatoes, this film is sure to please. Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. It's being financed by Abner Dillon to provide a starring vehicle for his girlfriend, songstress Dorothy Brock. Marsh, who is quite ill, is a difficult taskmaster who works long hours and continually pushes the cast to do better. When Brock breaks her ankle one of the chorus girls, Peggy Sawyer, gets her big chance to be the star. She also finds romance along the way CAST: Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Guy Kibbee DIRECTOR: Lloyd Bacon RUN TIME: 89 min
FREE SHOW: SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
Greenfield Garden Cinema 361 Main St., Greenfield, MA, United StatesA FREE show of the 1964 cult-classic The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
Open Stage
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesA new open stage series! Like an open mic but MORE. Theater! Dance! Music! Literature! Spoken Word! Magic! Puppetry! Circus and Sideshow! Comedy! Improv! Any form of art or entertainment that can be staged, in any stage of development. Every 4th Thursday with your rotating hosts: Nisse Greenberg, Nina Gross, Ezra Prior, and Vanessa Query. Signup starts at 6:30, show starts at 7. 5 minute limit for each act. You can plug into our sound system if you’d like audio to backup your act- plugin using 1/8″ mic jack input, bring adapter if needed. Questions? Contact LAVA here. $5 suggested donation ($1 Card-to-Culture)
A Saturday Dose of Fun (improv games for grownups with Henry Balzarini)
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesWarning: This workshop may cause multiple moments of mirth, foster greater comfort in new situations, inspire creativity, lift your mood, release stress, make you more spontaneous, ease you into connecting enjoyably with other people and even make you laugh out loud. Using improv games, we will become a fast thinking, in the moment, loose goose brigade. You’ve been warned. Here’s a little more about the content of the workshop from Henry: Although I’ll be using improv based exercises, they’ll be mostly warmup and group game activities. Not really improv scene or narrative building work. We will end with one or two short form improv performance type games, however. Focus will be on loosening up and having fun. If you are looking for serious improv study this won’t be it, but might be a good way to ease into it. That all said, the main objective is fun on a Saturday afternoon. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday! $5–10 suggested donation per session. No improv experience necessary. Intended for adults. Limit of 15 please, so sign up now: email [email protected]. about your host: I’m Henry Balzarini and a native of Boston. In the 1980’s I lived in New York City where I…
Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesNisse Greenberg and Trouble Mandeson are back hosting your favorite storytelling open mic and potluck in Greenfield! Come to the LAVA Center to tell a story or share a snack or just imbibe them both. Every 1st Thursday at The LAVA Center. Doors open and food is served at 6pm. Show will start at 7pm. All stories are meant to be true, personal stories from your own life. Show is pay-what-you-want. This program is sponsored in part by a grant from the Greenfield Cultural Council.
A Saturday Dose of Fun (improv games for grownups with Henry Balzarini)
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesWarning: This workshop may cause multiple moments of mirth, foster greater comfort in new situations, inspire creativity, lift your mood, release stress, make you more spontaneous, ease you into connecting enjoyably with other people and even make you laugh out loud. Using improv games, we will become a fast thinking, in the moment, loose goose brigade. You’ve been warned. Here’s a little more about the content of the workshop from Henry: Although I’ll be using improv based exercises, they’ll be mostly warmup and group game activities. Not really improv scene or narrative building work. We will end with one or two short form improv performance type games, however. Focus will be on loosening up and having fun. If you are looking for serious improv study this won’t be it, but might be a good way to ease into it. That all said, the main objective is fun on a Saturday afternoon. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday! $5–10 suggested donation per session. No improv experience necessary. Intended for adults. Limit of 15 please, so sign up now: email [email protected]. about your host: I’m Henry Balzarini and a native of Boston. In the 1980’s I lived in New York City where I…
Open Stage
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesA new open stage series! Like an open mic but MORE. Theater! Dance! Music! Literature! Spoken Word! Magic! Puppetry! Circus and Sideshow! Comedy! Improv! Any form of art or entertainment that can be staged, in any stage of development. Every 4th Thursday with your rotating hosts: Nisse Greenberg, Nina Gross, Ezra Prior, and Vanessa Query. Signup starts at 6:30, show starts at 7. 5 minute limit for each act. You can plug into our sound system if you’d like audio to backup your act- plugin using 1/8″ mic jack input, bring adapter if needed. Questions? Contact LAVA here. $5 suggested donation ($1 Card-to-Culture)
A Saturday Dose of Fun (improv games for grownups with Henry Balzarini)
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesWarning: This workshop may cause multiple moments of mirth, foster greater comfort in new situations, inspire creativity, lift your mood, release stress, make you more spontaneous, ease you into connecting enjoyably with other people and even make you laugh out loud. Using improv games, we will become a fast thinking, in the moment, loose goose brigade. You’ve been warned. Here’s a little more about the content of the workshop from Henry: Although I’ll be using improv based exercises, they’ll be mostly warmup and group game activities. Not really improv scene or narrative building work. We will end with one or two short form improv performance type games, however. Focus will be on loosening up and having fun. If you are looking for serious improv study this won’t be it, but might be a good way to ease into it. That all said, the main objective is fun on a Saturday afternoon. Every 2nd and 4th Saturday! $5–10 suggested donation per session. No improv experience necessary. Intended for adults. Limit of 15 please, so sign up now: email [email protected]. about your host: I’m Henry Balzarini and a native of Boston. In the 1980’s I lived in New York City where I…
Beautiful Disasters: A Storytelling Open Mic
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United StatesNisse Greenberg and Trouble Mandeson are back hosting your favorite storytelling open mic and potluck in Greenfield! Come to the LAVA Center to tell a story or share a snack or just imbibe them both. Every 1st Thursday at The LAVA Center. Doors open and food is served at 6pm. Show will start at 7pm. All stories are meant to be true, personal stories from your own life. Show is pay-what-you-want. This program is sponsored in part by a grant from the Greenfield Cultural Council.