Jul 21 Thursday
Do you love to read? So do we! That’s why we’ve launched the NEPM Book Club — a new quarterly meet-up dedicated to bringing NEPM friends together to chat about new, diverse and interesting fiction.
Our next meeting will be Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. We'll be talking about Telephone by Pervical Everett. It tells the story of perpetually dissatisfied geologist Zach Wells, who returns home from a desert field trip to find his world crumbling. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Telephone is a deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will drive us. The catch? There's three (yes, THREE) versions of the book. Don't panic — you only have to pick up one!
Learn more about the NEPM Book Club and register for our next meeting at nepm.org/bookclub.
Jun 30 Thursday
Blood & Water; a love story is about universal emotions that face all families in illness, love and loss. More importantly, as we celebrate Pride Month, Blood & Water presents an expansive view of love and family in a time in our country when gay, lesbian and trans people and youth are once again under attack.
Blood & Water effortlessly melds memory and dramatization. Francesca Hansen-DiBello alchemically spins fun, charm, love, and grief together with the intimate production and achingly honest dialogue and music.
Come celebrate live theatre, new work, and queer love stories!
Jul 01 Friday
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Jul 08 Friday
In a magic kingdom where good and bad fairies roam, the prick of a spinning wheel needle sets off a curse that puts the entire kingdom to sleep. With the help of a good fairy, only a brave Prince can defeat evil and wake the Princess from her sleepy kingdom.
Jul 15 Friday
Following a white rabbit leads Alice on a very strange adventure. In a place where up means down and right means wrong, Alice discovers a world filled with a strange smiling cat, a wild tea party, and a Queen whose temper is as red as the hearts on her dress!
Amplified Arts’ Company Presents Jane Austen's Emma.
Emma Woodhouse is Jane Austen's most maddening and endearing heroine. Clever and effervescent, young Emma is also a bit too accustomed to having her own way, although only her friend Mr. Knightley seems to notice.
This highly theatrical adaptation of one of Jane Austen's greatest novels tells the story of Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, and the other families in and around the village of Highbury.
Nearly 200 years after its publication, Emma continues to delight, both as a coming-of-age tale and a lively satire of Austen's elegant and quirky characters.
Adapted by Michael Bloom and directed by Shelly Hudson, AMP's Producing Artistic Director, Emma combines Austen's lively comedy of manners with ageless stories of love - secret, unrequited, and fulfilled - and beautiful Regency fashion and etiquette.
Tickets will be on sale through the Claremont Opera House, and the show will open at the Claremont Opera House on July 21st.
This production of "Emma" is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD, a Concord Theatricals Company.
Passport Theatre Company presents a new take on Willy Russell’s classic comedy, Educating Rita. Starring Stephanie Carlson and Adrian Goldman, the production opens July 21 at 7:30 pm at The Blue Room, Old Town Hall, 43 Main St in Easthampton, with performances on July 22 and 23 at 7:30 pm and July 24 at 2 pm.
Tickets for Educating Rita are on sale now at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/educating-rita-tickets-348036555707. For further information, call (413) 552-6412.
Rita is a working-class hairdresser who wants to learn and grow. She sees education as the path to a better way of living her life. Frank is a disillusioned university professor who uses alcohol to mask his feelings of inadequacy. Rita sweeps into his cocoon of an office like a strong gust of wind, ruffling his papers, absorbing his knowledge and challenging his assumptions. Each has a romanticized view of life in the other's social circle. Rita believes that the educated have more culture, and that their lives therefore have more meaning. Frank believes that any problem can be forgotten with a trip to the pub.
Jul 22 Friday
We all know the story of Wendy, Peter, and John, but what happened in Neverland before they arrived? Join Peter on his early adventures in Neverland, featuring lost boys, mermaids, and Captain Jim, who was merely passing through Neverland until he got “hooked” on the magical land!
