For nearly 50 years, the Ghent Playhouse has consistently presented only the very best stage productions each season. Since moving from the Spencertown Academy to the Ghent Playhouse, the Pantoloons have been a welcomed addition. Unfortunately, due to a large and unexpected surge in Covid and flu-related illness, affecting the cast and crew…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods The season opener at the Ghent Playhouse is a charmer. Sam Reilly turns in a totally endearing performance in this solo piece. BUYER & CELLAR may best be described as a “fantasia.” The actor tells us at the beginning it is fiction, not a real story.…
[GHENT, NY] – The Ghent Playhouse kicks off its 2022-2023 season with a one-man play with a peculiar premise: a struggling actor is hired for a mysterious job at an undisclosed location. Sam Reilly stars as Alex More. His job: staffing a fake private mall. The location: Barbra Streisand’s basement.…
[GHENT, NY] – The Ghent Playhouse is thrilled to announce its exciting lineup for the 2022-2023 season. Kicking off the 48th year is the one-man comedic play “Buyer & Cellar,” starring Sam Reilly. November 13 is a one-show-only benefit performance of “Aged to Perfection,” with Alaina Warren Zachary and Lisa Carman. Up next…
The Ghent Playhouse announces their 2022-2023 season. BUYER & CELLAR – Written by Jonathan Tolins – Directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher This outrageously funny and irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises – a struggling L.A. actor takes a job working in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu, California basement –…
THE CURIOUS SAVAGE by John Patrick directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher  OCTOBER 7 – 23 The Ghent Playhouse is seeking four actors, aged early 20’s to early 60’s. Set in the early 1950’s, The Curious Savage is a funny and touching play. Ethel Savage, an eccentric widow who has been left ten…
by Jeannie Marlin Woods What is theater but gathering together in a dark room to share stories – stories that remind us what it means to be human? LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, now playing at the Ghent Playhouse, is a resilient work that premiered in New York 23 years ago.…
by Emily Edelman The musical “Fun Home,” now on stage at the Ghent Playhouse, is based on the graphic memoir of the same title by cartoonist Alison Bechdel and describes her youth growing up in a funeral home; coming out as a lesbian at college; and grappling as an adult…
