East Street Ballet

East Street Ballet

East Street Ballet presents the program Holiday Jewels this week in Hadley, featuring ballet and modern works by Claire Maurey, Tai Jimenez and Onalie Arts. Dec. 22-23, 2 p.m., $8/kids under 12, $10/students and seniors, $12/general, East Street Dance Center Studio...
StageStruck: Anarchic Carol-ing

StageStruck: Anarchic Carol-ing

Tom McCabe has a problem with A Christmas Carol. He’s directed two stage versions of the holiday classic, and he says he’s always wondered about old Ebenezer Scrooge’s midnight conversion in the company of the ghostly Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come....
StageStruck: Community Competition

StageStruck: Community Competition

The headline in the Gazette read “Nonprofits seek giving windfall on 12/12/12,” and the subject lines in my overflowing in-box said things like “Please support our work on 12/12/12—here’s how!” Last Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, was...
StageStruck: Casting the Audience

StageStruck: Casting the Audience

In the curtain speech before a performance of his production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Smith College a few weeks ago, director Daniel Kramer said he considered us, the audience, “part of the cast”—an integral component of the production,...
StageStruck: Triple Threat

StageStruck: Triple Threat

Playwright Daniel R. Lillford says The Cabbage Patch “is not a big play.” Director Kristen van Ginhoven, too, calls it “a little play.” Little, that is, in the sense that it circles around a single mysterious event and a handful of interlocking...