Main Street Stage, is now accepting submissions for its Second Annual Short Play Festival

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Attention Playwrights! Main Street Stage of North Adams, Massachusetts, is now accepting submissions for its Second Annual Short Play Festival. All plays must be original, unproduced works, 15 to 30 minutes in length. Playwrights may submit more than one play.

Please e-mail submissions to spf@mainstreetstage.org or mail to Main Street Stage P.O. Box 137, North Adams, MA 01247 no later than October 31st, 2009. For any questions or concerns, contact Eric K. Auld at (518) 610-2574 or e-mail spf@mainstreetstage.org.

The First Annual Short Play Festival ran two weekends last January to sold out audiences and featured four original plays by writers from both Berkshire county and New York. Main Street Stage is a non-profit theatre company located at 57 Main Street in downtown North Adams, Massachusetts.

This fall, Main Street Stage will celebrate its ten year anniversary by continuing to support new, original work by living writer, by creating community access to the classics and by being an artists’ playground.
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Local Hockey Program's Alum Projected in NHL Draft

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — An alumnus of the Atlantic Coast Academy hockey program is generating a lot of buzz heading into next week's National Hockey League entry draft.
 
And that attention can only help build the profile of the program Mike Taylor founded in 2022.
 
"The talent is here," Taylor said this week of ACA, which pairs hockey development and education for players from around the nation and the world. "I don't think as many people locally realize the talent we've had here. I don't think they realized we had a future NHL Draft pick playing in our home rink."
 
That prospect is Maksim Sokolovskii, who the NHL lists as the No. 40 North American skater in the June 26 draft.
 
Sokolovskii, a 6-foot-7 left-shot defenseman, scored 34 goals and collected 50 assists in 65 games playing for ACA in the 2024-25 season.
 
This year, he is playing for the London Knights of the Ontario Junior Hockey League, one of the top leagues of its kind in North America.
 
"Sokolovskii is a massive and highly athletic defenseman," analyst Corey Pronmon wrote this month for The Athletic. "He's a strong, mobile player who's very physical and projects to make a ton of stops."
 
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