Albany Civic Theater Seeks Submissions from Directors for 2025-2026 Season

Albany Civic Theater (ACT) is currently seeking submissions from directors for the 2025-2026 Season. We are looking for directors for 4 main stage shows. The shows will run for three weekends each in one of the following calendar slots: ACT looks for balance in each season with cutting edge, newly…

CAST PARTY to Benefit CRFT Announces Performances

(Cohoes) Cohoes Music Hall will be the site for a huge Cast Party on 10/27 presented by Playhouse Stage Company to raise funds for the inaugural Capital Region Festival of Theatre. The party will be the biggest gathering of Capital Region theater fans ever in the interest of building a Festival…

Theater Voices Presents Staged Reading of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore”

THEATER VOICES will host four free staged reading performances of “Love, Loss and What I Wore” by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron over the weekend of May 17-19, 2024.  THE STORY: Based on Ilene Beckerman’s 1995 memoir of the same name, “Love, Loss and What I Wore” digs into the arcane algebra…

REVIEW: “Spring Awakening” at Playhouse Stage

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…

Albany Civic Theater Seeks Playwrights for Playwright’s Showcase

Albany Civic Theater is looking for local Playwrights for our Playwright’s Showcase on Sunday, July 21, 2024! Playwrights should be able to attend the performance/talkback. Submissions for the Playwright’s Showcase should include a brief synopsis and a copy of an original work.  We will accept one-act plays or a section of a longer play (up to an hour of performance).  We…

Playhouse Stage Company Opens 36th Season with “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”

Cohoes, N.Y. (November 29, 2023) –On Friday, December 1, Playhouse Stage Company opens its 36th Season presenting professional and youth musical theatre in the Capital Region with a new production of the musical adaptation of Barbara Robinson’s children’s novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. The production will play at Cohoes Music Hall…

Albany Civic Theater Call for Directors

Open call for directors!! Albany Civic Theater is currently seeking submissions from directors for their 2024-2025 Season.  We are looking for directors for 3 main stage shows running three weekends each in December 2024, February 2025 and May 2025. Our September slot is already scheduled. Albany Civic is seeking both…