Gloucester Stage Company’s 43rd season featuring a compelling range of diverse, powerful, and unique stories and voices kicks off on June 3

The Gloucester Stage Company, under the leadership of Interim Artistic DirectorPaula Plum and Managing DirectorChristopher Griffith, is pleased to announce its 2022 season of award-winning professional theater on Boston’s North Shore. 

The 2022 lineup embodies Gloucester Stage Company’s commitment to socially relevant and intellectually stimulating works with powerful, uplifting, intriguing, and inspiring productions and performances. Featuring stories rooted in human emotions to contemporary comedies, regional premieres, and new provocative works, as well as a grand community production, this season of plays will engage and entertain audiences while expanding the boundaries of the local theater landscape.

“This summer Gloucester Stage is taking you on a rollercoaster ride through a kaleidoscope of theatrical but very human experiences. In each play the protagonist longs for a rightful place in society, for recognition, for love. We are excited to be offering these rich and insightful, at times funny – at times tragic, perspectives on the human condition.” – Paula Plum, Interim Artistic Director

“Paula has crafted a season that runs the gamut of contemporary theater and offers the Boston audience access to plays that are at the dawn of successful careers across the nation’s theaters. This top-tier list of can’t-miss playwrights are bringing the socially relevant and entertaining stories to the stage that we are all looking for right now. Building on that foundation, we have an incredible team of directors leading each production, including past-artistic director, Robert Walsh.” – Christopher Griffith, Managing Director

The critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist play, Gloria, written by the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant recipient Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Bryn Boice, will open Gloucester Stage Company’s season June 3 to 26. This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of twentysomethings at one of New York’s most esteemed cultural magazines. When a seemingly ordinary day at the office turns out to be anything but, these aspiring journalists recognize an opportunity to seize a career-defining moment.

The summer continues to heat up with the production of Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets, running from July 1 to 24. Directed by Judy Brahaº, it is a turn-of-the-century tale of unbridled passion by playwright Anne Undeland. Inspired by Edith Wharton’s love letters to her young handsome French lover, Morton Fullerton, unearthed in the last 25 years, the play is a celebratory awakening for Wharton to the discovery of sex and love in all its bliss, heartbreak, and madness.

Robert Walshº will be returning to Gloucester Stage to direct the Tony Award-nominated play Grand Horizons, from July 29 to August 21.The Broadway hit is a hilarious comedy of marital malaise written by award-winning playwright Bess Wohl. By turns, it is a funny, shocking, and painfully honest play that explores a family turned upside-down and takes an intimate look at the wild, unpredictable, and enduring nature of love.

Under the direction of Jackie Davis, theatergoers will be transported to the sultry, jazz-filled Paradise Club circa 1949 in Detroit in the production of Paradise Blue, running from August 26 to September 18. In Tony Award-nominated playwright Dominique Morisseau‘s powerful noir-inspired drama, a makeshift family and their troubled bandleader find themselves fighting for the future of Paradise. This dynamic and musically-infused drama shines light on the challenges of building a better future on the foundation of what our predecessors have left us.

Gloucester Stage will round out the season with the haunting production of The Thin Place, beginning September 30 through October 23. Directed by Dee Dee Batteast, part ghost story, part dissection of “truth,” the play builds a never-ending loop between your head and your sixth sense and satisfies the cravings of both. With insight and relentless curiosity, the Tony Award-nominated playwright Lucas Hnath‘s play transforms the theater into an intimate séance, crafting an unnerving testament to the power of the mind, which has a mind of its own.

Gloucester Stage will be returning to live indoor performances in its historic theater located on Gloucester’s waterfront following last summer’s successful schedule of outdoor performances. The theater company will continue to prioritize the health and safety of artists, staff, and patrons. More information can be found at gloucesterstage.com/keeping-you-safe/

All performances, unless noted, are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 pm at Gloucester Stage Company located at 267 East Main Street, Gloucester. 

Tickets to the Gloucester Stage 2022 season are on sale now.  

Single Ticket prices range from $25 to $59, with discounts available for seniors, military families, college students, youth under 18 years of age, EBT Cardholders, and Cape Ann residents. For detailed ticket information, visit www.gloucesterstage.com

Season Packages start at $225 for five tickets to use for any mainstage performance and include early access to seating, no fees, and free ticket exchanges. Packages can be purchased or renewed by calling the Box Office at 978.281.4433 or by visiting gloucesterstage.com/subscribe

For additional information, contact The Box Office, located at 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, or can be reached at 978.281.4433or boxoffice@gloucesterstage.com

There’s a lot more than renovations going on at Robyn (aka the Crazy Fiesta Hat Lady) McNair’s Dog Grooming shop on 388 Main St. 

Pet grooming for over 36 years, Robyn and her friend Diane also started the Cancer Sucks Fund out of her shop. Personally affected by cancer, Robyn lost her husband John to cancer seven years ago. Wanting to offer a little extra help to local families, their first ’Clipping for a Cure’ raised $1200.

Local contractors Seaside Glass, Giacalone Contractors, Albano Electricians, Enos Painting and Louie McGraf have been donating their time and resources to renovate Robyn’s salon this past month.  

A Go Fund Me page enabled her to buy new equipment, including this stainless steel dog washing tub. (If you’re interested in contributing to Go Fund Me, see above.)

The inside renovations will include a “CANCER SUCKS in every colour” wall in memory of John. The wall display will include photos honoring the many cancer survivors they have helped out. Once all renovations are done (aiming for April 1st) Robyn will again start up her “Clipping for a Cure” FREE NAIL CLINIC for cats and dogs. It will be on the last Saturday of every month from 9 to 12. Any donations will be accepted and appreciated for the Cancer Sucks Fund and no amount will be refused!  Robyn‘s Dog Grooming is open during renovations. You can contact her at 978.491.8255

here’s teh go Fund Me Link-

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-robyns-grooming-stay-alive-thrive?qid=5f774158b370094e58aee6f9e235cd22

Gloucester 61, Auburn 45

Inspired by the World Economic Forum’s 1 Trillion Tree campaign to fight climate change, Project Elm is gifting 100 Elm Trees to local property owners in Gloucester and Rockport.

If you’d like to plant a disease-resistant Elm on your property, please reach out. We have the costs covered. We also have a skilled volunteer team ready to help plant trees on street facing property.

Want a tree on your property? Want to cover the costs of a tree for a fellow community member? Send an email to capeannelms@gmail.com

Link here- https://www.northeastoceandata.org/ePXPYWcq

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