Favorites of 2025: Barbara Waldinger

2025 was an exciting and innovative season—a mix of new plays and classics, chock full of exceptional performances, directors and designers. Barbara Waldinger’s Top Ten Plays For first rate ensemble performances: Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz, directed by Robert Egan.  Dorset Theatre Festival The Piano Lesson by August…

REVIEW: “On Golden Pond” at Bridge Street Theatre

by Barbara Waldinger Sometimes a performer leaves such an indelible impression in the interpretation of a character that it’s hard to accept another actor in the role.   That seemed to be the case for the dual roles of Ethel and Norman Thayer in Ernest Thompson’s ON GOLDEN POND.  How…

A New Work by Byron Nilsson Comes to the Claverack Free Library

COPAKE, NY –Constance Lopez & Lora Lee Ecobelli are pleased to announce the upcoming production of Girl With A Camera, a new work by Byron Nilsson opening Friday, May 9th, 2025 at the Claverack Free Library. How does a creative artist come to terms with sudden fame? Photographer Ivy Wilmot found success as a photo-journalist…

HRC Showcase Theatre Presents Reading of “Touch the Moon” at The Theater Barn

NEW LEBANON, NY—On July 30th, 2022, at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, New York, HRC Showcase Theatre will present a staged reading of Touch the Moon, by Arianna Rose.  Based on a true story, the play dramatizes the mysterious disappearance of a college student during spring break in 1995.   Although The…

HRC Showcase Theatre Presents Reading of “Touch the Moon”

NEW LEBANON, NY—On July 30th, 2022, at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, New York, HRC Showcase Theatre will present a staged reading of Touch the Moon, by Arianna Rose. Based on a true story, the play dramatizes the mysterious disappearance of a college student during springbreak in 1995. Although The…