Subscriptions to theREP’s 5-show season – now on sale – start at $153 ALBANY – Capital Repertory Theatre’s long hiatus is coming to a close with the recently announced production this summer of “Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow” and today’s announcement of the shows on theREP’s upcoming season…
Of all the classic Christmas stories, Frank Capra’s A Wonderful Life is the holiday touchstone that best conflates holiday nostalgia with authentic real life situations. The Nutcracker is a bit too sugary, A Christmas Carol typically Victorian, Santaland Diaries is somewhat world weary and sarcastic, but A Wonderful Life hits…
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Valley Light Opera is their dedication and tenacity. Each year a constantly shifting group of community members come together in Amherst to celebrate a different era, this time choosing Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer to put on their stage. Since it is a neglected…
The Ring cycle continues to be repeated with transmissions on May 16 with Wagner’s Siegfried, the third of the four Ring Cycle Operas. Read More…
Continuing until September 4, the whole concept of the show The Drowsy Chaperone sounds sort of goofy, and it is. But it works. The musical has a simple premise, the Man in Chair (Craig Treubert) puts an original cast recording on the turntable and it comes to life in his…
Finally, I am no longer a virgin. For years I have listened jealously to enthusiastic tales of The Game, a musical based on the book Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1782) which had its first airing eight years ago in Sheffield. It was new, original and daring then, and still is. It…
Mormons, Mothers and Monsters is an entertaining new musical, with peppy songs, clever lyrics and a most unusual coming-of-age story. It revolves around an almost perfect son who turns out to be gay. He adores his Mormon mom. She does her best with some pretty defective husbands, dragging her little…
What memories an old photograph can conjure up. The men who built those little cottages in Lenox in their derby hats were tycoons and scoundrels by day, refined at night. Their model wives found ways to expand their own enjoyment of life while maintaining proper decorum. Of course the tea…
