TEN CENTS A DANCE - Audience Reactions and Opening Night

We talked to audiences after performances of TEN CENTS A DANCE to hear what they had to say about the show. Take a look!



TEN CENTS A DANCE has a fabulous opening night last night on the Main Stage! Check out pictures of our company at the celebration.

Lauren Molina (TEN CENTS A DANCE), Jane Pfitsch (TEN CENTS A DANCE)

Lauren Molina (TEN CENTS A DANCE), Jessica Tyler Wright (TEN CENTS A DANCE), Diana DiMarzio (TEN CENTS A DANCE)

John Doyle (Director, TEN CENTS A DANCE), Jane Cox (Lighting Designer, TEN CENTS A DANCE)

Malcolm Gets (TEN CENTS A DANCE)

Jon Bass (Non-Equity Company), Stella Powell-Jones (Assistant Director, TEN CENTS A DANCE), Eliza Huberth (A DOLL'S HOUSE, Non-Equity Company)

Stage Management Interns - Yetti Steinman, Peyton Becker, Kendall Booher, Edda Baruch, Lauren Baston, Diana Gonzalez, Michelle Scalpone

Samantha Liebman (Social Media Intern), Elizabeth Cardaropoli (Publicity Intern), Katherine Fortner (Print & Graphics Intern)

TEN CENTS A DANCE will run at the Main Stage until August 28. Tickets can be purchased in person at the box office, by calling (413) 597-3400, or in person here. We can't wait to see you there!

All photos by Clay Barron.

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Changeover 2011 - SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER to TEN CENTS A DANCE

As we get ready for TEN CENTS A DANCE opening night tonight, the last Main Stage show and second to last show of the season, we bring you the weekly changeover video. Watch our fantastic crew strike down the SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER set and bring up set for TEN CENTS A DANCE.



TEN CENTS A DANCE will run at the Main Stage until August 28. Tickets can be purchased in person at the box office, by calling (413) 597-3400, or in person here. We hope to see you soon!

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Go Backstage at TEN CENTS A DANCE

We gave Lauren Molina, who plays Miss Jones One in TEN CENTS A DANCE, a camera to capture all the backstage action during the first tech rehearsal. Meet all five Miss Jones as they first try on their wigs and costumes for the first time!



In case you missed SITSTANDWALKLIEDOWN, or wanted to relive the piece, we put together an album of photos by Clay Barron of the show. You can take a look here!

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Greylock Theatre Project Playmaking Photos!

This past Monday,the Greylock Theatre Project presented their Playmaking performances, the final round of shows this year. Six local children wrote plays based on surveys their actors, members of the Equity & Non-Equity company, filled out the prior week. Check out some pictures from the wonderful performance!

Jeanna Phillips (ONE SLIGHT HITCH, Non-Equity Company) and Greg Couglin (Non-Equity Company) in SNOWBALL AND TREE'S ADVENTURE by Patrick.

Jeanna Phillips and Jane Kivnick (Apprentice) in SNOWBALLAND TREE'S ADVENTURE

Patrick, playwright of SNOWBALL AND TREE'S ADVENTURE

Phillipa Soo (Non-Equity Company) in SUSHBUG by Hailey

Gabriel King (Non-Equity Company) and Phillipa Soo in SUSHBUG

Liz Wisan and Chris Bannow (Non-Equity Company) in THE FRENEMIES by Emma

Liz Wisan, Emma, and Chris Bannow

Sabrina, playwright of THE JUNGLE AND THE LAKE

Ariel Woodiwiss (Non-Equity Company), Sabrina, and Kevin Reed (Non-Equity Company) in THE JUNGLE AND THE LAKE

Jon Patrick Walker (SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER) and Abby in THE ADOPTION

Jon Patrick Walker and Eliza Huberth (A DOLL'S HOUSE, Non-Equity Company) in THE ADOPTION

Jon Patrick Walker, Abby and Eliza Huberth in THE ADOPTION

Denis, playwright of MILITARY CRISIS

JD Taylor (SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, Non-Equity Company) and Michael Weiser (SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, Non-Equity Company) in MILITARY CRISIS

The playwrights take a bow

Congrats to the Greylock Theatre Project for a fantastic season. We'll see you next summer!

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Checking In With the Famiglia of the Fellowship Play

On August 14th and 15th, WTF audiences will have the chance to witness a play as homegrown as they come: Samuel D. Hunter’s When You’re Here directed by Portia Krieger, this year’s Fellowship Play.

The Fellowship projects, like the musical After Robert Hutchens WTF audiences saw last month, are commissions written specifically for our Non-Equity ensemble of 10 early-career actors. During the intensive Fellowship development process, an entirely new piece of theatre goes from an idea to a full production in an astounding 5 weeks.

Members of the When You're Here cast during rehearsal.

At the beginning of the season, Portia and Sam came to Williamstown with only the notion that they wanted to collaborate on a play that explores the increasing anonymity and transience of America- all set within the walls of an Olive Garden franchise. During a weeklong workshop, Sam and Portia met with the company of Non-Equity actors and began to build the community the play depicts from the ground up. By the end of the week, Sam had churned out a draft of the first act. Sam then left the festival to expand the script to its first complete draft. Just days after After Robert Hutchens closed, Sam and Portia were back at WTF to have the cast read through the latest draft of the script, and since then writer, director and actors have been tirelessly working together to bring the world of When You’re Here to life.

With the cast and creative team gearing up for the first every production of this new work, we have asked one of the actors to answer an imaginary Olive Garden job application in character. Here’s a sneak peak at one of the ever-evolving figures that populate the world of Sam Hunter’s When You’re Here:

Harry Ford during the culminating read-through after the initial workshop week.

Harry Ford plays Eddie, the manager of the Pocatello, Idaho Olive Garden where When You’re Here takes place.

Have you been convicted of a felony in the last ten years?
I don't even drink let alone felonize, though I'm not even sure what would count as a felony nowadays. I guess that's a good thing.

What is your favorite Olive Garden dish?
The breadsticks. Hands down.

What previous experience do you have that makes you qualified for this position?
It's in my blood. That's good enough, right? I can handle anything that comes my way with a smile, a firm handshake, and a complimentary dessert of your choice.

What’s your favorite memory of interacting with a customer?
It would have to be a 5 year old's birthday party when I first started working here. Her name was Jackie, and she had probably 10 little friends with her. When it came time to leave, Jackie started crying because she didn't want to leave because she had "made a new friend." Me. She cried all the way out the door. When I got to work the next morning, I found Jackie and her mom waiting in the hostess area. "She wanted to have lunch with her new friend," her mom said. Totally worth coming into work that morning.

Playwright Samuel D. Hunter and Director Portia Krieger look on as their company reads aloud an early draft.

Come out to see When You’re Here, the exciting new work by Samuel D. Hunter directed by Portia Krieger. It runs August 14 and 15 at 7 pm and 11 pm in the Directing Studio. Tickets are free, and the box office will begin taking reservations for the general public on August 11!

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A Tour Of Our Props Department By Our Props Department

We wanted to learn more about what goes on in the props department so we gave Josh Hackett, Props Master extraordinaire, the camera for a few days to watch some props magic happen for TOUCH(ED)!



Photo of the Day by Clay Barron:

JD Taylor and Jon Bass in the Directing Assistant project F***Book, written by Jon Bass and directed by Jason McDowell-Green.

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