REVIEW: “A Murder is Announced” at Home Made Theater
by Jess Hoffman Calling all murder mystery lovers: Home Made Theater’s current production is a quintessential murder mystery to get you into the season of…
REVIEW: Creative License Presents “The Comeuppance” at the Cohoes Music Hall
by Jess Hoffman Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Pulitzer and Tony award-winning new and noteworthy powerhouse of a playwright for whom I have much admiration. His…
REVIEW: Playhouse Stage Company Presents Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” at the Cohoes Music Hall
by Jess Hoffman I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to let go of what Disney did to Hans Christian Anderson’s tragic and beautiful…
REVIEW: Harbinger Theatre’s “Between Riverside and Crazy” at the Albany Civic Theater
by Jess Hoffman Two years ago, I reviewed Harbinger Theatre’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis and was delighted with the heartfelt…
REVIEW: “Once” at Capital Repertory Theatre
by Jess Hoffman Musicals about musicians are almost as common as plays about thespians, and they tend to offer the same opportunities and be prone…
REVIEW: “Oklahoma!” at Park Playhouse (Playhouse Theatre Company)
by Jess Hoffman I have to admit I have no love for Rodgers and Hammerstein. I find their musicals boring and overly sentimental. My introduction…
REVIEW: “Pippin” at SLOC Musical Theatre
by Jess Hoffman Pippin is a musical theater classic, and it’s hard to explain why. Don’t get me wrong, I love it–I find the score…
REVIEW: “A Fine Family” at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts
by Jess Hoffman Sand Lake Center for the Arts is currently offering a truly local production: a musical, titled A Fine Family, written and directed…