Favorites of 2024: Dan Mayer
We’ve had an embarrassment of riches with so many great shows happening all over the region, all deserving their own praise, but here are a…
REVIEW: Harbinger Theatre Presents “The Squirrels” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
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,…
REVIEW: “Driving Miss Daisy” at Albany Civic Theater
by Dan Mayer Driving Miss Daisy is Alfred Uhry’s most successful play, which he adapted into the screenplay for the critically-acclaimed film of the same…
REVIEW: “Play It Again, Sam” at Schenectady Civic Players
by Dan Mayer While he’s been mired in controversy for a long time, Woody Allen’s impact on generations of actors, writers, and filmmakers is undeniable.…
REVIEW: “Little Wars” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Dan Mayer Steven Carl McCasland is a writer on a mission. As his bio puts it, he is “dedicated to telling the stories of…
REVIEW: “In The Blood” at Harbinger Theatre
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…