Concrete Temple Theatre Brings “Ernie’s Secret Life” to Lumberyard in Catskill

Concrete Temple Theatre “Ernie’s Secret Life” Lumberyard, 62 Water Street, Catskill, NYFRI, 21 at 7 PMSAT, 22 at 2 and 7 PM – BUY TICKETS – *Please indicate your access needs when buying your ticket(s), by noting them in the box provided at checkout. $25 General Admission$22 Seniors, Students with…

Auditions for 2022 SLCA One Act Play Festival

AUDITION DATES: December 16,17 2021 7-10pm  SIGN IN: 6:30pm AUDITION LOCATION: Sand Lake Center for the Arts, 2880 NY 43, Averill Park NY 12018 8 original one acts, directed by 8 local directors. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to take part in our semiannual event. Auditions will consist of…

Circle Theatre Players Present “Weekend Comedy”

Circle Theatre Players, now in its 42nd season, present Weekend Comedy by Jeanne and Sam Bobrick. An older couple rents a rural getaway; however, due to a mixup in reservations, a younger couple also arrives.  Their decision to share leads to a comedic clash between the generations. September 10 & 11 and…

REVIEW: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at Hubbard Hall

by Gail M. Burns In 1983 successful singer/songwriter Rupert Holmes concocted a plan to make a musical out of Charles Dickens’ unfinished final work The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He had the extraordinary opportunity to present this concept to Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival (now the Public…

REVIEW: “Arsenic and Old Lace” at the New York State Theatre Institute

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2007 Alas, poor Mortimer Brewster (Jason Marr). A recalcitrant theatre critic for a major New York newspaper, on the very night he has to go and review “Murder Will Out” he “outs” several murderers in his own extended family. Of course, as Mortimer says,…

REVIEW: “Anything Goes” at the Cohoes Music Hall

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2005 Wowie-wow-wow! Whadda show! All singing, all dancing. Everyone and everything in the Cohoes Music Hall production of Anything Goes looks and sounds just great. This current retooling of the 1934 Cole Porter opus, which I am assuming is the 1987 Broadway version with a revised…

REVIEW: “Big River” at the Cohoes Music Hall

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2004 “NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR”– Samuel Clemens, The Adventures of Huckleberry…

REVIEW: “Assassins” at The Ghent Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2002 I think it takes real chutzpah to stage Assassins less than a year after 9/11. In a summer season where many area theatres are busily waving the flag, scheduling this daring, edgy musical which explores the lives and possible motives of nine people who attempted…