CR★FT is taking over the UALBANY Campus Center on Sunday, June 15, 2025, and filling it up to the brim with workshops, panel discussions, performances and more. ALBANY, NY – The Capital Region Festival of Theatre, (CR★FT), takes a bow on its inaugural weekend Sunday, June 15, 2025, but not before…
THEATER VOICES will present “Butterflies are Free” by Leonard Gersh, the play that inspired the 1972 movie starring Goldie Hawn, in four staged reading performances directed by Yvonne Perry over the weekend of May 16-18, 2025. As always, admission is FREE, with donations graciously accepted. THE STORY: Young Don Baker has been blind…
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, what we had just watched. That is the sort of question invited by writer Robert Askins’ bizarre tragicomedy, and Harbinger Theatre‘s production embraces the absurdity…
by Jess Hoffman To close out their season, Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate New York is producing a collection of one-acts, playfully titled One Act Jamboree. The one common thread among these plays is that they showcase, in one way or another, the Black experience. Many of these plays are…
ALBANY – Harbinger Theatre will continue our third season with our 13th consecutive Capital Region Premiere, “The Squirrels” by Tony Award nominee, Robert Askins. Directed by Patrick White, this production will be held at Sand Lake Center for the Arts. Summer might be right around the corner but in our wildly imaginative play, winter is on the…
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 Scarlet Letter, and title it Fucking A. That one comment ultimately led her to write two different plays, which came to be known as Parks’…
ALBANY – Harbinger Theatre will open their third season with “In the Blood” by Pulitzer winner Suzan-Lori Parks directed by TJ Collins-Gutierrez. The play is a brilliant, inventive, updated riff on the American classic “The Scarlet Letter.” Performances will be held from March 15-24 at the Saint Rose Theatre. While he is not a stranger…
by Jess Hoffman Harbinger Theatre has brought many regional premiers to the Albany Capital District, 10 in arow, to be precise. But right now, Harbinger is showing a world premier of a play written bySchenectady local and regional theater personality Brian Sheldon. Staged at The Albany Barn,Custom Cuts is an…
