REVIEW: “Footloose” at Playhouse Stage Company
by Sierra Pasquale There is something wonderfully timeless about Footloose. On paper, it is an unabashedly 1980s story: a Chicago teenager moves to a small…
REVIEW: “Newsies” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Sierra Pasquale Every millennial theatre kid seems to have a Disney movie that became part of their personality. For me, it was Newsies. Long…
REVIEW: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” at Playhouse Stage Company
by Sierra Pasquale As a millennial, I grew up on the works of Roald Dahl. His books occupied a permanent place on my bookshelf, but…
REVIEW: “The Addams Family at the Mac-Haydn Theatre
by Sierra Pasquale Few musicals are as delightfully macabre, charmingly eccentric, and unabashedly theatrical as The Addams Family. Based on the beloved characters created by…
REVIEW: “The Wolves” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Sierra Pasquale Sarah DeLappe’s “The Wolves” has become one of the defining contemporary plays about adolescence, identity, and the often-chaotic process of growing up.…
REVIEW: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” at Albany Civic Theater
by Sierra Pasquale There’s something thrillingly unhinged (and unexpectedly tender) happening at Albany Civic Theater right now. Their production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”…
REVIEW: “Fiddler on the Roof” at Home Made Theater
by Sierra Pasquale There is something uniquely difficult about reviewing Fiddler on the Roof. The show carries so much emotional and cultural weight that audiences…
REVIEW: “In the Next Room” at Schenectady Civic Players
by Sierra Pasquale Schenectady Civic Players’ production of In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) approaches Sarah Ruhl’s quietly subversive comedy with clear affection…