The Shea Theater is transforming itself into a Leviathan tonight and tomorrow. It’s a happening an amazing immersive experience that transfigures the whole venue into a wholly otherworldly place. And at the core of this performance is our Live Music Friday Guest: Cloud Belly, who’ll talk about how doing expansive theater in this fashion effects the music they make. 

 And as you stay for the play Fantasy has in store for you, we’ll take you a little further south to Easthampton where tonight the next recipients of the Pay it Forward Grant are taking to the stage. Human Agenda Theater is gearing up for a ONE NIGHT performance of their latest work “Within the Glow” which is about human gatherings, the good and bad that comes with it and why it’s an essential part of our humanity.

 And sorry PSL people, the real beverage of the fall is cider. And Western Mass is literally at the heart of the hard cider revival. We head to Provisions Northampton to check out two classics from the cidery that really showed American cider makers what might be possible in a West County Cider thunderdome with Benson Hyde and Bruce McAmis.