Favorites of 2025: Jess Hoffman
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…
REVIEW: Harbinger Theatre’s “Swing State” at SLCA
by Jess Hoffman Harbinger Theatre has made a name for themselves in the New York Capital Region as a small volunteer theater company bringing lesser-known,…
REVIEW: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss The late great William Finn wrote the music and lyrics for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, originally workshopped at Barrington…
REVIEW: “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” at Albany Civic Theater
by Sierra Pasquale In this smart, self-aware, and sharp-edged production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at Albany Civic Theater, the audience is…
REVIEW: “WEB” at Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Jess Hoffman Sand Lake Center for the Arts is continuing its eclectic season with a play by Capital District native Brendan Mack about a…
REVIEW: Classic Theater Guild Presents “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”
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…
REVIEW: “The Motherf**ker with the Hat” Harbinger Theatre at the Albany Civic Theater
by Jess Hoffman Albany Civic Theater–a theater with a special place in my heart that has been central to my love of theater–is currently the…
PREVIEW: Harbinger Theatre Brings “Dig” to SLCA
by Gail M. Burns “Theresa Rebeck is a fierce defender of the right to bear witness, an organizer, a galvanizer always willing to take big…