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…
ALBANY – Harbinger Theatre will continue our third season with our 13th consecutive Capital Region Premiere, “The Squirrels” by Tony Award nominee, Robert Askins. Directed by Patrick White, this production will be held at Sand Lake Center for the Arts. Summer might be right around the corner but in our wildly imaginative play, winter is on the…
by Dan Mayer Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a beloved piece of American literature for good reason, so I was naturally excited to see this production by Confetti Stage. The drawback of telling such a classic story is that it can set expectations pretty high. The…
Confetti Stage is excited to present “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” adapted by Dale Wasserman and directed by Siobhan Shea. This adaptation of Ken Kesey’s celebrated 1962 novel, staged in the round, explores the thin line between hope and brutal reality. In this classic, come to life, the band…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss It’s a love story, which began as a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller in 1992, turned into a movie in 1995 starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, and adapted into a musical which premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2013 and moved to Broadway in…
by Jess Hoffman I have been enamored with playwright Tracy Letts ever since I read his Pultzer winner, August:Osage County for a high school theater class. But I have been less impressed by some of hisother plays, and I was not familiar with The Minutes before seeing Albany Civic Theater’sproduction.…
by Jess Hoffman Sand Lake Center for the Arts seems to be on a streak of launching fresh productions of old theater chestnuts. Their 2023 production of Boeing Boeing gave me a renewed love for the classic farce. And now, Sand Lake Center for the Arts is presenting the Pulitzer-winning…
by Jess Hoffman Harbinger Theater brings yet another regional premier to the New York Capital District with Mrs. Packard at The Albany Barn. Mrs. Packard tells the story of the real life Elizabeth Packard, who was sent to an insane asylum by her husband for disagreements over religion. The ensuing…
