REVIEW: “Storm Still” at Bridge Street Theatre
by Patrick White Bridge Street Theatre is celebrating storytelling with one of the theater’s greatest stories ever told, King Lear, used as a cathartic salve…
REVIEW: “The Last American Newspaper” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Sierra Pasquale Few institutions have been eulogized as often as the local newspaper, and few of those eulogies come from someone who lived inside…
REVIEW: “The 39 Steps” at Lake George Dinner Theatre
by Patrick White Patrick Barlow’s The 39 Steps from 2005 is hugely influential, satisfying on repeated viewings and evergreen in its current incarnation at the…
REVIEW: “The Counter” at Harbinger Theatre
by Dan Mayer In a 2024 interview with Forbes, writer Meghan Kennedy said that “face-to-face communication sometimes feels like an endangered species.” It’s hard to…
REVIEW: “Breathing Time” at Creative License Theater Collective
by Jess Hoffman I have to admit I did absolutely zero research before I went to the Cohoes Music Hall to review Creative License’s current…
REVIEW: “Parallel Lives” at Albany Civic Theater
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The audience is told before Parallel Lives opens at the Albany Civic Theater that Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy, the playwrights and…
REVIEW: “Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground” at Barrington Stage Company
by Barbara Waldinger Acting teachers and coaches often refer to the craft of acting as a tennis match:Â one actor sends a message (the ball)…
REVIEW: “Come From Away” at the Sharon Playhouse
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss It makes perfect sense that the musical, Come From Away by Irene Sankoff and David Hein is making the rounds of theaters…