REVIEW: Harbinger Theatre Presents “The Squirrels” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Dan Mayer After seeing The Squirrels at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts, a friend who had accompanied me asked, with visible confusion,…
REVIEW: “Driving Miss Daisy” at Albany Civic Theater
by Dan Mayer Driving Miss Daisy is Alfred Uhry’s most successful play, which he adapted into the screenplay for the critically-acclaimed film of the same…
REVIEW: “Play It Again, Sam” at Schenectady Civic Players
by Dan Mayer While he’s been mired in controversy for a long time, Woody Allen’s impact on generations of actors, writers, and filmmakers is undeniable.…
REVIEW: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at Confetti Stage
by Dan Mayer Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a beloved piece of American literature for good reason, so I was naturally…
REVIEW: “The Humans” at Home Made Theater
by Dan Mayer The medium of live theater is often at its best when it allows us to step away from the familiar, or to…
REVIEW: “Little Wars” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Dan Mayer Steven Carl McCasland is a writer on a mission. As his bio puts it, he is “dedicated to telling the stories of…
REVIEW: “In The Blood” at Harbinger Theatre
by Dan Mayer Back in the 1990s, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks had made a joking comment that she would write a riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The…