PITTSFIELD, MA (October 14, 2025) – The Board of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) has announced the nominees for the 2025 Berkshire Theatre Awards, colloquially known as The Berkies. The awards will be presented on the evening of Monday, November 10, 2025, at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield. This…
Seeking students ages 8-18 for A Christmas Story, students ages 14-18 for Cry-Baby, and adults/professionals for both productions. Rehearsals for A Christmas Story will begin this fall, and performances will be held December 3-21 at Cohoes Music Hall. Rehearsals for Cry-Baby will begin in late Winter, 2026, and performances will…
by Jess Hoffman Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Pulitzer and Tony award-winning new and noteworthy powerhouse of a playwright for whom I have much admiration. His 2014 drama Appropriate and 2015 tragicomedy Gloria are both spectacular works that I have previously seen on stage, and his newest play Purpose recently won…
Following the success of their acclaimed production of “A Few Good Men”, Creative License once again takes to the Cohoes Music Hall Stage to bring you the Capital Region Premiere of the Lortel Award-winning, haunting, and humorous play The Comeuppance by celebrated playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play will run September 5th through…
by Jess Hoffman I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to let go of what Disney did to Hans Christian Anderson’s tragic and beautiful fairy tale, The Little Mermaid. When I read the 1837 short story for a literary analysis class I was livid about the liberties that Disney…
Theatrical adaptation of the beloved animated film that launched “The Disney Rennaissance” will play a twenty-eight performance run at Cohoes Music Hall.Cohoes, N.Y. (June 27, 2025) – Playhouse Stage Company will continue its 37th Summer Season, as they begin welcoming audiences to the historic Cohoes Music Hall for Disney’s The Little Mermaid next…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss How rare it is to attend a brand-new musical by an unknown writer and composer and to feel captured by the very first number. That was my experience seeing The Waiting, A New Musical still in process, produced by Playhouse Stage Company at the Cohoes Music Hall,…
Musical’s folk-inspired score was composed by Capital Region native and Playhouse Stage youth theatre alum, Maria Isabella Andreoli. Cohoes, N.Y. (May 30, 2025) – Playhouse Stage Company continues its 37th Season in June, with a new entry in what the company has dubbed “Playhouse Stage Premieres,” a program to develop new musical…
