by Jess Hoffman Valentine’s month is not over yet! At least, not at Confetti Stage, where the current production is a romantic comedy called Stage Kiss about a married actress who is cast to play opposite her old flame. When their intimacy onstage brings up old feelings, the protagonist finds…
by Jess Hoffman I have been enamored with playwright Tracy Letts ever since I read his Pultzer winner, August:Osage County for a high school theater class. But I have been less impressed by some of hisother plays, and I was not familiar with The Minutes before seeing Albany Civic Theater’sproduction.…
by Jess Hoffman Sand Lake Center for the Arts seems to be on a streak of launching fresh productions of old theater chestnuts. Their 2023 production of Boeing Boeing gave me a renewed love for the classic farce. And now, Sand Lake Center for the Arts is presenting the Pulitzer-winning…
by Jess Hoffman Arthur Miller is perhaps best known for Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, but also amonghis notable works is All My Sons. Like Death of a Salesman, All My Sons concerns a seeminglyordinary businessman with a checkered past. But unlike Death of a Salesman, which is…
by Jess Hoffman The synopsis of The Father found on Schenectady Civic Players’ event page is short but telling: “Now 80 years old, André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer, whose daughter Anne lives in London…
by Jess Hoffman The premise of Classic Theater Guild’s current production, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, is a simple but very intriguing one: an absurdist comedy about a chance encounter between a young Albert Einstein and a young Pablo Picasso at a French nightclub in 1904. If this absurdist piece…
by Jess Hoffman Harbinger Theater brings yet another regional premier to the New York Capital District with Mrs. Packard at The Albany Barn. Mrs. Packard tells the story of the real life Elizabeth Packard, who was sent to an insane asylum by her husband for disagreements over religion. The ensuing…
by Jess Hoffman Far too many theaters for my taste tend to offer feel-good, holiday-themed, peppermint and sugar-cookie flavored entertainment this time of year. So I am very pleased to announce that Albany Civic Theater, at least, has opted to instead present for their December show a play about hardy…
