Kick Out the Jams

Kick Out the Jams

Thaw yourself from winter's chill with a springtime performance featuring dancers from 10 local dance companies, including East Street Ballet, Pioneer Valley Ballet, Academy of Ballet Arts, Northampton School of Dance and others. The performance, called Just for...
Stella and Beryl

Stella and Beryl

After the old Amherst movie house closed its doors 10 years ago, the civic group that revived it intended to create an arts center in which films would share the space with live performance. For various reasons, that didn't happen, but this week live theater comes...
StageStruck: The Magic Knife

StageStruck: The Magic Knife

The Ordinary Theater is no ordinary theater. What fascinates its founder and director, Mitchell Polin, isn't linear narrative but the thrill of capturing the "simultaneity of action" that surrounds us every day. "We're at our computer and three...
Falsettos in Northampton

Falsettos in Northampton

With the aid of the arts councils of Amherst and Northampton and other sponsors, Easthampton's PACE hits the stage in Northampton this week with Falsettos, a pairing of two Tony Award-winning one-act Broadway musicals about a raft of interesting characters: a gay...
G-String Circus

G-String Circus

Hold your breath, pucker your lips, and prepare for some sparkling, shimmying show girl and bad boy fun in FUSE, a circus of drag and burlesque. Curated, produced, and presented by Colleen McKeown, this acrobatic spectacle combines the talents of performers and...