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…
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 We’re looking for unpublished, family-friendly one-acts of all genres (not musicals) with up to six characters and a 15-minute run time that have not yet been performed…
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, hard-hitting plays by up-and-coming playwrights to the area. Their latest production of Swing State by Rebecca Gilman is currently playing at Sand Lake Center for…
(Pittsfield, MA) the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association held the Ninth Berkshire Theatre Critics Awards (the Berkies) at Zion Lutheran Church and Harbinger, the small community theater in Albany, NY was nominated for three awards and won two on the week that they are opening their 18th Capital Region premiere. The…
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 Stage Company in 2004 and premiered on Broadway in 2005. A winner of two Tony awards, this sweet, endearing and hilarious musical depicts the competitors…
Harbinger Theatre is seeking a Board Op to run our sound and light cues on QLab for our production of Swing State directed by Brian Sheldon. Lighting design by Laura Darling, sound design by Shaya Reyes. No experience necessary, plenty of instruction available. Needed for dry tech 11/8 through closing 11/23. 7…
ALBANY, NY – Harbinger Theatre will close its fourth season with Swing State by Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rebecca Gilman, and directed by Brian Sheldon. Swing State marks Harbinger’s 18th Capital Region premiere. It might also amazingly be the Capital Region premiere of Gilman, who has been one of the most esteemed playwrights…
1776 Directed by Shawn Morgan Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards Book by Peter Stone A seminal moment in American history—the Declaration of Independence—comes to life in this unconventional Broadway hit. 1776 humanizes the pages of history by portraying the men behind national icons as complex figures—prideful, frightened, uncertain, irritable,…
