{"id":1411,"date":"2009-04-15T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkshirelinks.com\/berkshires-news\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2009-04-15T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T20:32:18","slug":"berkshire-theatre-festival-hosts-4th-annual-richie-dupont-award-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/berkshire-theatre-festival-hosts-4th-annual-richie-dupont-award-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Theatre Festival hosts 4th annual Richie DuPont Award Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BTF PLAYS!, the year-round educational program for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/berkshiretheatre.org\/\">Berkshire Theatre Festival<\/a><\/strong>, will be hosting the <strong>4th annual Richie DuPont Award Benefit<\/strong> on May 9th at 8 p.m. at Firefly in Lenox, MA.  The benefit will feature live entertainment by Berkshire favorites, the <strong>Tony Lee Thomas Band<\/strong>, light hors d\u2019ouevres, door prizes and a silent auction.  All proceeds will benefit the Richie duPont Award, which provides tuition assistance for children to attend <strong>BTF PLAYS!<\/strong> Summer acting camps on the BTF campus.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s silent auction features a \u201cA Night at the Theatre\u201d package including overnight accommodations for two and a complimentary breakfast at the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, MA along with tickets to a BTF Main Stage Production; tickets to see The Roundabout Theatre Company\u2019s current production of Waiting for Godot on Broadway, starring Nathan Lane and Bill Irwin; gift certificates to IS183, Plaine\u2019s BikeSkiSnowboard, Route 7 Grill, and Berkshire Bike and Blade; Kayak rental from the Arcadian Shop; and many, many more items donated by local businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th annual Richie DuPont Award Benefit will be hosted by Berkshire Theatre Festival on May 9, 2009 at Firefly in Lenox, MA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealpoetry.com\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}