White Management Family of Restaurants Donates to Proctors Collaborative

Bountiful and Annabel’s Pizza Co. extend Grand Opening Celebration with more than $5,000 in donations Albany, NY (August 16, 2022)—Bountiful Bread and Annabel’s Pizza Co. last month recognized Proctors Collaborative by donating $5580 in celebration of their new restaurants at Frog Alley, 108 State Street, in Schenectady. Bountiful Bread and…

REVIEW: “Dracula” at the Berkshire Theatre Group

by Macey Levin Bram Stoker wrote his four-hundred-plus page novel Dracula in 1897.  The world’s best-known vampire story has changed considerably on its way to becoming the play that is now in production at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Hamilton Deane, a British playwright, was the first…

Full Casting Announced for the North American Tour of Disney’s “Aladdin”

Schenectady’s Limited Premiere Engagement Plays October 11 – 23, 2022 at Proctors Schenectady, NY (August 15, 2022) – Disney Theatrical Productions, under the direction of Thomas Schumacher, is pleased to announce full casting for the eagerly-anticipated North American tour of Disney’s Aladdin. The tour will launch in Schenectady, NY at Proctors, playing October 11-23,…

“Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues” Topic of Free Friday Talk at Shakespeare & Company

LENOX, Mass. – Shakespeare & Company’s Free Friday Talks continue under the tent at the Rose Footprint Theatre, with a discussion of Golden Leaf Rag Time Blues on Friday, August 26, at 10:30 a.m. Hosted by educator and member of Shakespeare & Volunteer Company Ann Berman, Free Friday Talks examine various themes surrounding many of the 2022…

REVIEW: “To the Moon and Back” at the Chester Theatre Company

by Barbara Waldinger Chester Theatre Company’s mission statement includes two important goals:  offering audiences “fresh perspectives on vital issues” and developing and supporting new work.  Responding to this, along came Fran Henry, founder of a thirty-year-old organization called Stop It Now!, devoted to preventing “the sexual abuse of  children by…

Ghent Playhouse Announces 2022-2023 Season

The Ghent Playhouse announces their 2022-2023 season. BUYER & CELLAR – Written by Jonathan Tolins – Directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher This outrageously funny and irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises – a struggling L.A. actor takes a job working in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu, California basement –…

REVIEW: “Hymn” at Shakespeare & Company

by Barbara Waldinger The Shakespeare & Company production of Hymn by Lolita Chakrabarti feels like two actors and a director searching for a plot.  Overstuffed with music, singing, dancing, boxing, changes of costume, set pieces and props (not to mention a ticking metronome) to help fill the 95 minutes, the…