REVIEW: “Well” at Schenectady Civic Players

by Sierra Pasquale Toward the end of Lisa Kron’s “Well” she notes, “This avant garde, metatheatrical shit will really bite you in the ass”, and with that, I couldn’t agree more.  “Well”, currently on the boards at the Schenectady Civic Players, is a semi-autobiographical play that explores themes of illness,…

Play “The Guys” at Schenectady Civic Center September 10-12

THEATER COMPANIES JOIN FORCES TO REOPEN DOORS, FEATURING A 9/11 PLAY RELEVANT TO A POST-COVID WORLD Schenectady Civic Players and Local Actors Guild of Saratoga (LAGS) team up to present THE GUYS, a play written in the wake of the World Trade Center attack, that is remarkably relevant to a…

REVIEW: “The Cat, The Sun, and The Mirror” at the New York State Theatre Institute

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2006 It is a sad comment on how we prioritize our arts dollars that I am used to seeing even the very best children’s theatre presented with fairly low-budget production values. So NYSTI’s top-flight production of The Cat, the Sun, and the Mirror, a new…