by Dan Mayer In storytelling, insightful political commentary can sometimes come at the cost of fully realizing the characters as people. In Casa Valentina, playwright Harvey Fierstein manages to do both, delivering a cast of likable human characters with realistic ideological differences. Schenectady Civic Players bring the characters to life…
*FREE Scene Night!* *Tuesday, 3/18**7pm**Albany Barn**56 2nd St**Albany, NY 12210* Scenes & monologues from students of Acting Class with Patrick White. New actors, new scenes and new ideas. Come see a great sampling of new and classic drama by Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Mike Bartlett, Jesse Eisenberg, Arthur Miller,…
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, what we had just watched. That is the sort of question invited by writer Robert Askins’ bizarre tragicomedy, and Harbinger Theatre‘s production embraces the absurdity…
