Theater
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)
Love/Sick
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC Theater’s fall performance of John Cariani’s Love/Sick, a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a night in an alternate suburban reality, this “unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone” explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast of GCC students and local community members. $15/general admission, $5 student/senior admission. Please purchase tickets in advance online (or we can accept cash only—no checks!—at the door).
LIVE SHADOW CAST: ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Greenfield Garden Cinema 361 Main St., Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Come Again Player shadow cast the cult classic wit CRAP Kits for purchase separately. This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car breaks down in the woods, and they seek refuge in a towering castle nearby. Greeting them at the door is a ghoulish butler named Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), who introduces them to a bacchanalian collection of partygoers dressed in outfits from some sort of interplanetary thrift shop. The host of this gathering is a transvestite clad in lingerie, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist who claims to be from another planet. With assistants Columbia (Nell Campbell) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) looking on, Frank unveils his latest creation -- a figure wrapped in gauze and submerged in a tank full of liquid. With the addition of colored dyes and some assistance from the weather, Frank brings to life a blonde young beefcake wearing nothing but skimpy shorts, who launches into song in his first minute of life. Just when…
LIVE SHADOW CAST: ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Greenfield Garden Cinema 361 Main St., Greenfield, MA, United StatesThe Come Again Player shadow cast the cult classic wit CRAP Kits for purchase separately. This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car breaks down in the woods, and they seek refuge in a towering castle nearby. Greeting them at the door is a ghoulish butler named Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), who introduces them to a bacchanalian collection of partygoers dressed in outfits from some sort of interplanetary thrift shop. The host of this gathering is a transvestite clad in lingerie, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist who claims to be from another planet. With assistants Columbia (Nell Campbell) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) looking on, Frank unveils his latest creation -- a figure wrapped in gauze and submerged in a tank full of liquid. With the addition of colored dyes and some assistance from the weather, Frank brings to life a blonde young beefcake wearing nothing but skimpy shorts, who launches into song in his first minute of life. Just when…
25 Hour Theater Festival
The LAVA Center 324 Main Street, Greenfield, MA, United States25 HOURS 6 PLAYWRIGHTS A HATFUL OF ACTORS AND ONE NIGHT OF THEATER MADNESS! JOIN THE FUN NOVEMBER 3 at 6 and 8 PM at LAVA Center, Greenfield On Saturday afternoon, November 2, a group of playwrights will receive a prompt, pick some actors out of a hat, and spend the next 25 hours writing brand new plays and bringing them to performance. Featuring local and regional playwrights: Henry Balzarini, Nina Gross, Silvia Kaplan, Jan Maher, Jonathan Mirin, and Brian Rust. It’s wild, wacky and fun! Most of all, it’s super creative! Come out to LAVA Center, 324 Main Street in Greenfield the evening of Sunday, November 3 for two showings of the work of these amazing artists! 6pm: Masks Required 8pm: Masks Optional $10–20 suggested donation This event is produced by Christine Benvenuto and made possible by a grant from the Greenfield Cultural Council. about the playwrights: Henry Balzarini is a former teacher of English and a writer of works in storage. He has created and helped others create in-the-moment short improv plays in various and sundry venues over the years in Boston, Vermont, Western Massachusetts and LAVA. Nina Gross is a musician and a writer of poetry, prose,…
Love/Sick
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC Theater’s fall performance of John Cariani’s Love/Sick, a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a night in an alternate suburban reality, this “unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone” explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast of GCC students and local community members. $15/general admission, $5 student/senior admission. Please purchase tickets in advance online (or we can accept cash only—no checks!—at the door).
Love/Sick
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC Theater’s fall performance of John Cariani’s Love/Sick, a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a night in an alternate suburban reality, this “unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone” explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast of GCC students and local community members. $15/general admission, $5 student/senior admission. Please purchase tickets in advance online (or we can accept cash only—no checks!—at the door).
Love/Sick
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC Theater’s fall performance of John Cariani’s Love/Sick, a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a night in an alternate suburban reality, this “unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone” explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast of GCC students and local community members. $15/general admission, $5 student/senior admission. Please purchase tickets in advance online (or we can accept cash only—no checks!—at the door).
Love/Sick
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC Theater’s fall performance of John Cariani’s Love/Sick, a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a night in an alternate suburban reality, this “unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone” explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast of GCC students and local community members. $15/general admission, $5 student/senior admission. Please purchase tickets in advance online (or we can accept cash only—no checks!—at the door).
Love/Sick
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC Theater’s fall performance of John Cariani’s Love/Sick, a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a night in an alternate suburban reality, this “unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone” explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast of GCC students and local community members. $15/general admission, $5 student/senior admission. Please purchase tickets in advance online (or we can accept cash only—no checks!—at the door).
Love/Sick
Greenfield Community College One College Drive, Greenfield, MA, United StatesJoin us for GCC Theater’s fall performance of John Cariani’s Love/Sick, a collection of nine slightly twisted and completely hilarious short plays. Set on a night in an alternate suburban reality, this “unromantic comedy for the romantic in everyone” explores the pain and the joy that comes with being in love. Directed by Tom Geha with a cast of GCC students and local community members. $15/general admission, $5 student/senior admission. Please purchase tickets in advance online (or we can accept cash only—no checks!—at the door).
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)