Latham, NY — Curtain Call Theatre is presenting Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton in an all new adaptation by Steven Dietz. This play is Directed by Curtain Call Resident Director Steve Fletcher. Based on Hamilton’s 1939 play and the subsequent film adaptation starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, Dietz takes us to 1880’s Victorian England…
Latham, NY — Curtain Call Theatre is presenting The Rembrandt by Jessica Dickey, directed by Steve Fletcher. The play opens in a modern-day art museum, where three individuals yearn to experience firsthand the wonder and glory of Rembrandt’s work. When a museum guard decides to touch a famous Rembrandt painting, a remarkable journey…
Callaloo Theater presentsTrouble in Mind by Alice Childress directed by Karen-Christina Jones With Amelia Paul, Michael O’Farrell, Joshua Seaberry, Averatt Washington, Kelsy Nevins, Emmett Ferris, Isaac Scranton, AJ Joyner, and John Noble *This 1955 comedy-drama planned for Broadway but canceled when the playwright wouldn’t tone down its message. The play…
Latham, NY — Curtain Call Theatre is presenting Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPietro, directed by Steve Fletcher. Nick is a young bachelor living in New Jersey who religiously spends every Sunday having dinner with his Italian Grandparents. When he breaks the news that his employer…
by Gail M. Burns It breaks my heart to have to inform you that The Theater Barn has mounted a ponderous and shabby production of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution. Contrary to popular opinion, critics do not salivate at the prospect of writing negative reviews. We want every production…
Of all the classic Christmas stories, Frank Capra’s A Wonderful Life is the holiday touchstone that best conflates holiday nostalgia with authentic real life situations. The Nutcracker is a bit too sugary, A Christmas Carol typically Victorian, Santaland Diaries is somewhat world weary and sarcastic, but A Wonderful Life hits…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, September 2008 This has been a summer for farce. It started on Memorial Day weekend with The Ladies Man at Shakespeare & Company, and was punctuated with A Flea in Her Ear at the Williamstown Theatre Festival at the end of July. It is now concluding with the farce…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, January 2008 This is the best production of La Cage Aux Folles in the world. Well, okay, somewhere on this planet there is probably a production with snazzier sets. But there is not a better over-all production anywhere anyhow because only the production at the Cohoes Music…
