Copake, NY – Local theater company Taconic Stage Co. (TSC) presents “Your Town,” a play with music written to celebrate Copake’s bicentennial in April. The script and lyrics are by TSC Founder and Producing Artistic Director Carl Ritchie with music by Wayne Moore and Chuck Pelletier. Music director and pianist…
Copake Lake, NY – Local summer theater company Taconic Stage Co. (TSC) presents I Know I Came in Here for Something, a musical revue about middle-age with words by Carl Ritchie and music by Wayne Moore with Sariva Goetz as music director and pianist. The light-hearted medley of original songs…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2007 If you like your end-of-life stories filtered through a homey Hallmark haze, then you will love Tom Ziegler’s Grace and Glorie now being given a charmingly honest production at the Copake Theatre Company. It is not surprising to learn that Hallmark developed Grace and Glorie as a…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, April 2004 The production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer currently running at Main Street Stage in North Adams is a powerful and fascinating piece of theatre. Three actors, four monologues, played on a nearly empty stage with the house lights up. The show runs nearly three hours,…
Previewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2004 “What is a fact in the context of autobiography? A fact is something that happened to me or something I experienced. It can also be something I thought happened to me, something I thought I experienced. Or, indeed, an autobiographical fact can be…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, December 1999 “I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly and no…
