[GHENT, NY] The Ghent Playhouse presented a check for $ 2700 to the Columbia County EMS Education program representative PJ Keeler on February 11th.  The donation resulted from a benefit reading of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever earlier in January. Ghent Playhouse Artistic Director Cathy Lee-Visscher, Roman Fever Producer Vivian Wachsberger…
by Emily Edelman Peter Shaffer’s farce “Black Comedy,” onstage at the Ghent Playhouse, centers around an aspiring sculptor intent on impressing an art buyer who has arranged a visit to his apartment to view his work. Just before the buyer’s arrival, however, an electrical fuse blows causing a blackout. In this…
Join us for a Staged Reading of Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever at Ghent Playhouse Benefits Columbia County EMS/Education Two Performances Only: Friday, January 10 at 4:00 PM & Saturday, January 11 at 2:00 PM For the third consecutive year, the Ghent Playhouse proudly presents a staged reading in support of…
by Emily Edelman February 14-16 performances POSTPONED Though Ghent Playhouse’s presentation of Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor” runs for just two weeks and six performances, it has already sold out several of those performances and it’s easy to see why: Ludwig’s very funny and fast-paced farce gets an uplift from…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss [Production photos coming soon!] “Why do you sleep? Is it because of me?” asks Schuyler Grogan (Matt Benincasa) of his betrothed, Norma (Leigh Fisher-Troche), who constantly, narcoleptically nods off three days before their wedding. In Invitation to a March, a play by Arthur Laurents, this question is…
Two very different women deal with love and marriage, each in her own way, in spite of social pressures and romantic ideals. With at least a generation between them they find the men in their lives do not live up to their ideals in Arthur Laurents’ play Invitation to a…
Copake Lake, NY – Local summer theater company Taconic Stage Co. (TSC) presents I Know I Came in Here for Something, a musical revue about middle-age with words by Carl Ritchie and music by Wayne Moore with Sariva Goetz as music director and pianist. The light-hearted medley of original songs…
by Lisa Jarisch As filling as the first slice of wedding cake, and almost twice as sweet, The Wedding Singer literally heads down the aisles of the Mac-Haydn Theatre with all the big hair, big shoulders, and big sounds that made the 1980s as memorable as the New Coke, Reagan’s jelly…
