Once again, the remarkable Berkshires theatre scene was replete with variety, excellence, and creativity. Writing in December, as I look back on a season that stretched from October 2024 to October 2025, there were successes and a few productions that were not yet ready for prime time. However, this reviewer…
100 Saints You Should Know – Schenectady Civic Players This was an early favorite, so much so that I saw it twice. A strong cast of characters grapple with questions of faith, all looking for answers but also comfort, and ultimately finding it in the emotional connections they share. It’s…
Red Like Fruit at Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY, was a mesmerizing, offbeat production of this American premiere. An actor reads to the audience the autobiographical story of a woman who is mostly silent. With a lectern, a platform and a chair, the simplicity and the intensity of this play…
#1 At the Wedding – Harbinger Theater at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts Bryna Turner’s At the Wedding was the rare production that managed to be laugh-out-loud funny and quietly devastating in the same breath. This staging succeeded because it trusted its audience. Never softening the ache at…
10. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Sand Lake Center for the Arts Sand Lake Center for the Arts’s fall production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was impossible not to love. The adult cast portrayed the adolescent characters with humor and sincerity. Allison McArdle Avery’s…
Galway Players Auditions Adults and children for JOSEPH and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Youth Grades 4-12 Check in 11:00-12:00 Auditions 12:00-1:30 Adults – Check in 1:00-1:30 Auditions 1:30-5:00 pm Please see attached role descriptions and musical selections for auditions. Visit our website www.galwayplayers.org for Audition Information and registration form. Galway High School…
Footloose Theatre Programs is excited to share something new this winter for kids/teens ages 8-18! We are launching a FREE Winter Workshop occurring weekly from the end of January to the end of March. Students will experience and learn scene acting, directing, stage management, and play fun theatre games over 8 weeks. The workshop will…
SUBMIT YOUR ONE-ACT PLAYS Submit your work to Sand Lake Center for the Art‘s One-Act Play Festival, which goes up in May 2026! We’re looking for unpublished, family-friendly one-acts of all genres (not musicals) with up to six characters and a 15-minute run time that have not yet been performed…
