by Jess Hoffman Playhouse Stage Company has taken on a challenging yet rewarding project with their current production of Spring Awakening. For those unfamiliar with this musical, it is a rock musical adaptation of the 1891 German play of the same name by Frank Wedekind. It premiered in 2006 (when…
Rock musical based on 19th Century German play of the same name explores the challenges of adolescence and coming of age in a repressive world. Cohoes, N.Y. (April 12, 2024) –Tonight, at the historic Cohoes Music Hall, Playhouse Stage Company opens a new production of the celebrated musical Spring Awakening. The production…
by Jess Hoffman Playhouse Stage Company has chosen a play with local roots for its second summer production. Based on a 1911 novel of the same name, The Secret Garden first premiered in 1989 in New York’s Capital District in a collaboration between Skidmore College and Capital Rep, according to…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss As someone privileged to see the original Broadway production of Something Rotten in 2015, starring Brian D’Arcy James and Tony winner Christian Borle, I was excited to have the chance to see this satirical musical again. Yet, I tempered my expectations for the outdoor production offered by…
Playhouse Stage Company is proud to welcome audiences back to the historic Cohoes Music Hall as they present BOOK & LYRICS BY JOE DIPIETROMUSIC BY JIMMY ROBERTSORCHESTRATIONS BY DOUG KATSAROS MUSICAL DIRECTION BY BRIAN AXFORDCHOREOGRAPHY BY ASHLEY-SIMONE KIRCHNERDIRECTED BY MICHAEL LOPORTO FEATURING MARC CHRISTOPHER, DASHIRA CORTES, BRANDON JONES &MOLLY ROSE…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2007 I tried to explain American Soup to someone the other day and ended up saying, “Well, at the back of the stage Andy Warhol is in purgatory, on the front we watch 50 years in the lives of this Italian-American family who run a restaurant…
