“Oh God,” a play by Anat Gov, will be presented by the Chester Theatre Company Thursday through July 24 in the Town Hall, 15 Middlefield Road in Chester.
Chester Theatre has partnered with Israeli Stage to present the regional premiere of the play, which centers around a therapy session between a very depressed God and Ella, a therapist and single mother with doubts about her own faith.
“This hilarious and poignant play has brought so much joy to the hearts and minds of audiences across the world,” said Guy Ben-Aharon, producing artistic director of Israeli Stage. The play has been translated into English, German, Spanish, French and many other languages.
Shows are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Tickets cost $37.50; $10 for students and residents of Chester. To reserve, visit www.chestertheatre.org or call 800-595-4849.
The third annual open juried show at Gallery A3 at 28 Amity St. in Amherst will be on view through July 30. Show juror Mara Williams, chief curator of the Brattleboro (Vermont) Museum and Art Center will choose from a broad pool of artists.
There will be an artists’ reception and artists’ forum Saturday at 4 p.m.
Gallery hours are Thursdays through Sundays from 1 to 7 p.m. For information, visit gallerya3.com.
The Greenwood Players will perform Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Sevenars Academy, 15 Ireland St., Route 112, in South Worthington.
Composed of players of the nation’s orchestras and concert stages, the ensemble includes flutist Christina Jennings, violist Matthew Dane, concertmaster Jesse Holstein, cellist Volcy Pelletier and violinist/violist Rob Gorevic.
On the program: a quintet by Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau, a German-born Danish composer, and “Impresiones de la Puna” by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, plus works by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu and Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Refreshments will be served. There is a suggested donation of $20. For information call 238-5854 or visit www.sevenars.org.
The Northampton Center for the Arts is seeking artists for the seventh annual Northampton Chalk Art Festival that will be held Sept. 9 as part of Northampton’s monthly Arts Night Out.
Artists will work from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., rendering drawings on 5-foot-by-5-foot cement canvases located throughout the downtown area.
All participants will receive a $100 stipend. Cash prizes of $300, $200 and $100, for the top three creations, will be awarded by a panel of judges.
For information or an application, visit nohoarts.org. The deadline to apply is Aug. 5.
Multi-Arts
“Fiesta Flamenco,” an evening of live music and dance performances sponsored by Multi-Arts, will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Amherst Farm Winery, 529 Belchertown Road in Amherst. There will also be refreshments and activities for children.
Multi-Arts offers interdisciplinary art programs for children. During the programs, children work with professional artists, dancers, musicians, costume designers and writers to learn the value of creative work and collective creation, according to information provided by Multi-Arts.
For information about the event, visit www.multi-arts.org.
The Old Deerfield Sunday Afternoon Concert Series continues its 67th season Sunday at 3 p.m. in the music room of the Memorial Hall Museum, 8 Memorial St. in Old Deerfield. Carol Hutter, viola; Anderson Paes, clarinet; and Larry Picard, piano, will present a program of music by Mozart, Poulenc and Max Bruch.
Admission costs $10; $5 for students and seniors. For information, call 774-3768, ext. 80.
“The Obituary Project” will be presented Monday at 7 p.m. at Amherst Cinema, 28 Amity St. in Amherst.
The filmmaker, Hope Tucker, will be on hand at the screening. She is a faculty member with Hampshire College’s Creative Media Viewfinders summer program.
In the 60-minute film, which is not rated, Tucker interprets complex lives through experimental film. She reframes the passing of sights, people, communities, rituals and cultural markers by documenting shuttered factories, fallen trees, disappearing civil rights era landmarks, public phone booths and more.
Tickets are free for Amherst Cinema Members; regular admission for others.
“What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA,” a freewheeling and candid account of The Beatles’ arrival in the United States in 1964, will be shown July 21 at 7 p.m. as part of the cinema’s “Sound & Vision” summer music series.
The film follows the Fab Four from their crazed arrival at JFK airport to unguarded moments inside the Plaza Hotel as they prepared for their landmark appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” to their equally frenzied “homecoming” back in the U.K.
Regular admission.
To reserve tickets for either film, visit www.amherstcinema.org.
Evelyn Harris and Dionne McClain-Freeney will perform in the seventh annual Horace Clarence Boyer Memorial Concert Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, 130 River Drive in Hadley.
Harris, the director of the Ku’umba Women’s Choir at Northampton Community Music Center, is a Grammy-nominated composer who creates interpretations of the traditional African-American song canon. Harris’ performances also include freedom songs, jazz, pop, rock ‘n’ roll and the blues. Her music and style are inspired by the gospel genre.
She will be joined by McClain-Freeney, a New York City pianist, composer, singer, choral director and teaching artist. McClain-Freeney is also the composer and lyricist of “This One Girl’s Story,” the winner of the Best Ensemble Performance at the New York Theater Festival.
The performance commemorates the life and work of the late Horace Clarence Boyer, an internationally acclaimed musician and scholar of gospel music. Boyer was a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a minister of music at the Goodwin Memorial African Methodist Episcopalian Church. He presented an annual gospel performance at the museum for 25 years.
Tickets cost $12; 2 for children 16 and under.
The 56 String Duo with Bob Markey and Andrew Jenkins will perform Saturday as part of the museum’s “A Perfect Spot of Tea” series.
Markey’s music is based in the North Indian, Hindustani, music tradition. He plays a mix of ragas from north and south India, and improvisations from Persia, Japan and Indonesia.
Jenkins is a 12-string guitarist, who studied at the Berklee College of Music, has been playing music for 38 years.
Seatings are at 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Admission costs $12.
For information about either concert, call 584-4699 or visit www.pphmuseum.org.