Mill City Productions announces June Play Reading

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NORTH ADAMS — Mill City Productions, a North Adams based community theatre is pleased to announce “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” by Paul Zindel as the June selection for their monthly play reading series. The dramatic reading will be held on Wednesday, June 25 at 8 p.m. at Mill City’s new home, Building 4 (next to the Visitor’s Center) in the Western Gateway Heritage State Park in North Adams.

Please park in either the Northeast lot (near NBCTC) or in the Son’s of Italy lot. Admission is $3. Tickets will be available at the door. The reading will be directed by Marissa Carlson and feature Stephanie Mayer, Brooke Mead, Sam Therrien and Liz Urban.

Zindel’s “Marigolds” revolves around a dysfunctional family consisting of a mother and her two daughters. The mother, Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everyone around her, including her daughters, Ruth, a pretty but highly-strung girl subject to convulsions and Tillie, a plain and almost pathologically shy girl who has an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school. Proud and yet too jealous to accept her daughter's success, Beatrice can only maim when she needs to love and deride when she wants to praise. “Marigolds” won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as an Obie Award and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award.

Mill City Productions is a non-profit, community-based, multigenerational collaborative focused on creating an outlet for expression and education for theatrical veterans and novices alike. To obtain more information about Mill City or to join their mailing list, please visit www.millcityproductions.org.
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Sanford, Maine, Edges SteepleCats in Season Opener

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The SteepleCats Sunday started their 2026 season the way they ended their 2025 campaign: with a narrow loss to the Sanford Mainers.
 
Sanford, which won a best-of-three playoff series against North Adams last August, scored four runs on 14 hits to earn a 4-2 win at Joe Wolfe Field.
 
The Mainers broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run rally in the third inning, and four Sanford pitchers combined to collect 11 strikeouts as the visitors improved to 2-1 this summer.
 
North Adams, which saw its planned road opener rained out on Saturday, got to open the season in front of its home fans.
 
And those fans saw a strong performance from the North Adams pitching staff, which, despite allowing 14 hits, including five doubles, gave up just three earned runs.
 
“I like the grit,” SteepleCats coach Mike Gladu said of his team’s Game 1 performance. “I thought the pitchers performed pretty well. We had a couple of situations where we definitely should have gotten some runs in and didn’t get that hit.
 
“And there were a couple of plays with a little rust. Certainly, the ball that was hit over [Evan] Meier’s in left field, he just mistracked that one. And the extra run they scored in the eighth, the kid wasn’t going to go [from third on a fly ball], we made a throw and nobody could stop it.
 
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