Weekend Outlook: Alien Love, Shakespearean Plots
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A Space Tale
Maybe it's time to take in something a little more out of this world. Then you'll be happy to know the Drury Drama Team is presenting its latest production — a sci-fi romance called "Sunday Night."
Playwright Stephen Gregg's work is the story of a teenaged girl who finds herself in an alien setting; in her struggle to return home, she battles evil forces and confronts her own demons.Gregg selected North Adams to premiere his work, a nod to the drama team's professional quality productions. Set designers Tiger and Ron Waterman are back with their wonderful backdrops and Matt McConnell has written an original score. David Lane created the aliens, last seen bobbing along Main Street in the Fall Foliage Festival Parade.
"Sunday Night" is being staged at Drury High School in North Adams tonight and Saturday at 7; admission is $6 for students and $9 for adults. For more information see www.drurydrama.com.
More Music
Get in the mood with a little night music, first with Don White at the Railway Cafe at Gallery 51 on Main Street in North Adams tonight at 7:30 and then on Saturday night at 7 with some rockin' and pop-punk local bands at St. John's Parish Hall in North Adams presented by the Grooove.
If you like your music a little more classic, the Oldies But Goodies Rock 'n' Roll Show, starts at 7:30 Saturday night at Barrington Stage Company at 30 Union St. in Pittsfield. There's a matinee Sunday at 2 as well. The concerts benefit United Cerebral Palsy; tickets are $16 and $22/ Call 413-236-8888 for more information.
The Williams Percussion Ensemble will perform "Islands" at 8 p.m. on Saturday night at Williams College's Chapin Hall. Directed by Matthew Gold, the concert presents works that reside outside the musical mainstream, each an island expressing a unique musical culture and vision. The program includes Claude Vivier's Balinese-influenced "Pulau Dewata," John Luther Adams' monumental "Three Drum Quartets from Earth and the Great Weather," and Yvonne Troxler's "Shergotty." The concert is free and open to the public.
The North Adams Public Library at 74 Church St. will be hosting a blues concert by Robin O'Herin on Monday, Nov. 24, at 6 p.m. in the community room. The program is free and appropriate for the whole family but seating is limited; call for reservations at 413-662-3133.
Be So Dramatic
Shakespeare & Company's Fall Festival of Shakespeare brings hundreds of high school students together each year to celebrate the Bard. The students will be performing his works this weekend in Founder's Theatre on Shakespeare & Company's Kemble Street campus in Lenox.
Friday: Lee High School's "Twelfth Night," 6:30 p.m.; Mount Greylock Regional High School's "Henry V," 8:30 p.m.
Saturday: Monument Mountain Regional High School's "Much Ado About Nothing," 1:30 p.m.; Springfield Central High School's "The Merchant of Venice," 3:30 p.m.; Taconic High School's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," 6:30 p.m.; Chatham (N.Y.) High School's "Hamlet," 8:30 p.m.Sunday: Taconic Hills High School's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," 1:30 p.m.; North Andover High School's "Romeo and Juliet," 3:30 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students for each performance. A festival pass is $50 for adults and $25 for students and includes all 10 plays. For more information: 413-637-3353.
The Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe will be performing at Main Street Stage in North Adams on Saturday and on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.
Dialogue One Theatre Festival at Williams College features performances on Saturday at 2, 3:30, 6 and 7:30 in the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance. Its aim is to establish a platform for Williams students, professionals and students from other schools to share their theatrical works with a broad range of audience. Cost is $3; for more information, call 413-597-2425.
The Berkshire Community College Players present "Machinal" at 8 p.m. on Saturday in the Robert Boland Theatre in Pittsfield. The play, by Sophie Treadwell, is an expressionistic tragedy based on the 1927 trial of a stenographer, Ruth Snyder, for the murder of her husband. Snyder became the first woman to die in the electric chair. Admission is $10; $6 for students with ID. Call 413-499-0886 for more information.
Mill City Productions in North Adams continues its run of "The Little Prince" at 2 and 7 on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday in Building 4, Western Gateway Heritage State Park. It is based on Saint Exupery's tale of a world-weary and disenchanted aviator stranded in the Sahara Desert with a mysterious, regal "little man" who appears to him. Tickets are $9 for adults and $7 for children, students and seniors. For more information: 413-664-0161.
Soft Focus
Pastels By Degas, Pissarro, Cassatt and Millet will be on view at the Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, from Saturday through Feb. 16, 2009. The "Art of the Pastel" highlights the range of styles and subjects explored by 19th-centurty artists using this delicate yet spirited technique.
Admission is free; for more information, 413-458-2303.
Bazaars
St. Stanislaus' School holds its Holiday Bazaar on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Kolbe Hall on Hoosac Street in Adams. Featuring games, raffles, Chinese auctions, craft sale, baked goods, snack bar, and much more, including the famous Polish Food to Go. All proceeds benefit the operational needs of St. Stanislaus' Kostka School.
Third annual Melbourne Craft Fair will be held Saturday from 10 to 2 at Epoch at Melbourne, 140 Melbourne Road, Pittsfield. All events are free and open to the public.
Save Room for Pie!
Join pupils from Gabriel Abbott Memorial, Clarksburg Elementary and Savoy Elementary schools for the annual Oh Be Thankful Pie Contest and Auction beginning at 5:30 on Monday night at the American Legion in North Adams. The community service learning project benefits the local food pantry and Elf Project, the Berkshire Food Project and the Legion's annual Christmas dinner. The evening will include pie judging, tasting, raffles and more. Roy Burdick and Harry LaGess will auction off pies after the judging.
