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First Night by Jack Neary – a recorded performance

A collaboration of Acting Out! and The Actors Studio of Newburyport Returning to the virtual world, just in time to bring good cheer to the new year! Enjoy this performance recorded with a LIVE audience using three high definition cameras at the Firehouse Center for the Arts just one year ago.   Hailed “A delight!” […]

First Night by Jack Neary – a recorded performance

A collaboration of Acting Out! and The Actors Studio of Newburyport Returning to the virtual world, just in time to bring good cheer to the new year! Enjoy this performance recorded with a LIVE audience using three high definition cameras at the Firehouse Center for the Arts just one year ago.   Hailed “A delight!” […]

The Gin Game, By Donald L. Coburn

Two people playing gin rummy in a run-down rest home may not sound like a recipe for compelling drama but hand it to a pair of seasoned actors, like Richard McElvain and M. Lynda Robinson, and you’ve got a play that’s worthy of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Their powerful performance proves that D.L. […]

Short Play Festival: Act Two – via ZOOM

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TASN Short Play Festival - Act Two Over 200 views! Act One of TASN’s Short Play Festival aired for a week in December, to rave reviews – and over 200 viewers! Our call for submissions went out January 1st, of last year, and closed at just about the same time the country shutdown because of […]

Radio Plays – 20210129

Welcome to the TASN Radio Plays  The first of two weekends of TASN Radio Programming starts the end of this month! You will be able to tune into them on the TASN website. They will be aired on the designated dates over the course of two weeks, and will include powerful dramas, terrific comedy and […]

Radio Plays – 20210205

Welcome to the TASN Radio Plays  The first of two weekends of TASN Radio Programming starts the end of this month! You will be able to tune into them on the TASN website. They will be aired on the designated dates over the course of two weeks, and will include powerful dramas, terrific comedy and […]

Full Moon Story Slam – 20210206 – Second Chance

Full Moon Story Slam date: Saturday, February 6 at 7pm Theme: Second Chance Please note: Audience Members limit is 100, so be sure to sign up early The next Full Moon Story Slam is our chance to gather as friends - virtually, of course - and share true stories from our lives. Simply put, a story […]

Lovers Only – A Collection of Five Love Scenes

Award-winning actors M. Lynda Robinson and Richard McElvain of Boston Reads partner with the Firehouse Center for the Arts and The Actors Studio of Newburyport to present this virtual production in classic readers theater format – with script in hand. The set changes and costumes are minimal with the audience using their imagination to interpret the words of the […]

Improv Class – Performance (with Charles Van Eman) – via Zoom

Students, from the Winter edition of Improv Classes, work with Charles Van Eman on many aspects of the craft of Improv.  This class culminates in a performance. Please join us in enjoying the fruits of their labors. Here is a description of the class: *Become a better listener (to others and to your own ideas!) […]

WHM Flo Asks After Ida B. Wells

The "Women's HERstory Month" committee is so excited to have assembled another incredible month of inspiring stories and performances to celebrate Women's History Month. For the 2021 WHM theme, we decided "Iron Butterflies" would be the inspiration for all shows. This was the symbol used by the Suffragists to show determination and strength. We realized […]