Circle Theatre Players 2018-2019 Season A Murder is Announced.  October 5-14 Written by Agatha Christie Directed by Paul Trela A Christmas Carol.      December 7-16   Written by Charles Dickens   Directed by Brian Sheldon   Adapted by Brian Sheldon and Melanie…
How do you depict a prize fight onstage without the boxers landing a single blow? In The Royale, playwright Marco Ramirez takes on this challenge, reaching for every theatrical tool in his arsenal to bring to life this electrifying production inspired by the struggles of iconic black heavyweight Jack Johnson. …
by Gail M. Burns There are no men on stage in the Acting Class with Patrick White’s presentation of Jaclyn Backhaus’ Men On Boats at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts. Nor were there any in the original Clubbed Thumb production at Playwrights Horizons in 2016. The cast of…
by Fred Baumgarten Panopera’s presentation of La Traviata at the Academy of Music in Northampton straddled the line between professional quality and amateur production. On the strength of some good singing, sincerity, and charm, let’s call it a win. La Traviata (roughly, “The Fallen One”), arguably Giuseppe Verdi’s most popular opera and certainly…
Home Made Theater, Saratoga’s resident theater company, is getting ready to open their 2018-2019 season. HMT is the resident theater company at The Spa Little Theater in Saratoga Spa State Park. In October, Home Made Theater will open their 34th season with the musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, written by Mel Brooks…
by Barbara Waldinger Imagine a play about the poetry of William Blake, one of the most complex writers ever known, written in rhymed couplets (like Blake’s poems), featuring a pair of actors portraying university professors who have been lecturing on this poet for the past fifteen years. Bridge Street Theatre,…
by Gail M. Burns For the second year in a row the Theater Barn has chosen to end their season with a really lousy play. Don’t get me wrong, the cast is great, the set is nice, director Phil Rice has done his best with it, but The Decorator is…
by Gail M. Burns David Auburn’s Proof burst on the national consciousness nearly twenty years ago – winning Tonys and a Pulitzer and being made into a big budget, star-studded film – so the initial flurry of professional and amateur productions across the country has run its course and the…
