Upcoming
Tony Montanaro: A Love Story
performed by Karen Montanaro with special guest, Jack Golden.
May 3, 7:30 pm
Shea Theatre | Turners Falls, MA
Tickets are $20.
Karen Montanaro’s one-woman, multi-media show, Tony Montanaro: A Love Story, a comical, profound, intimate, and breathtaking account of the personal and professional relationship between Tony and Karen Montanaro.
Tony Montanaro: A Love Story is based upon the creative relationship Karen had with her husband Tony, perhaps the most famous American Mime performer in our history. When Tony and Karen met in 1987, Tony was a world-renowned mime artist and Karen was a professional ballet dancer. Tony was 60 years old and freshly divorced. Karen was 27 years old and the only “relationship” she had ever had was with ballet. Tony was ready to leave his former life, buy an Airstream and hit the road. Karen was at a dead end, suffering from anxiety attacks and a life-threatening malaise. Thus began a relationship that Karen credits with saving her life; imparting grand lessons in vulnerability, artistry, playfulness and more playfulness.
Eggtooth Productions is honored and grateful to have received a generous grant from the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice to support our production of Orlando by Sara Ruhl at the Academy of Music this spring. We are deeply grateful to the MNF for their support of our work.
Orlando
May 17, 7:30 pm
Academy of Music | Northampton, MA
Tickets are $20 and all students are free
Eggtooth Productions presents Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando for one night only!
Featuring Linda Tardif in the title role, this ensemble cast includes Kyle Boatwright, Lindel Hart, and Rich Vaden with Broadway makeup artist and beloved character Mr. Drag, Joe Dulude II, as Queen Elizabeth. This fantastical production offers lighting design by John Bechtold, costumes by Christina Beam, directed by Linda McInerney. Orlando is made possible through the generous donations of the Markham Nathan Fund for Social Justice, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Plum Boutique of Northampton and is presented in support of the Academy of Music Theater’s new LGBTQ+ program for teens.
Ruhl's Orlando brings to the stage the life of an Elizabethan nobleman who's magically transformed into an immortal woman as Orlando, first as he and then as she, struggles to learn the relevance of gender identity and the true meaning of life, if one never dies. Now the questions Orlando explores of gender are less fantastical and have more to do with our new reality as the rights and safety of our Trans and LGBTQ+ community are in peril. This playful story written a hundred years ago celebrates the multiplicity of gender in a delightful and loving way that is more relevant than ever. By directly addressing the ways that a person contains multiple genders within their soul this play celebrates the diversity of humanity in a positive yet pointed way that entertains while educating.
Here’s what a member of the Lupinewood Collective, a Trans asylum community, said about the production, “For me, the most profound part of watching Orlando was feeling re-woven into the fabric of time, when so often culture is telling me I have no place in it.”