Based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book of interviews with American workers, Working paints a vivid portrait of the workers that the world so often takes for granted: the schoolteacher, the phone operator, the waitress, the millworker, the mason, and the housewife, just to name a few. Nominated for six Tony…
WE WANT YOU, and here is your chance to truly spread holiday magic!!! Yankee Trails will host auditions for the premier holiday show in this area; Santa’s Magical Express! Auditions will be Tuesday and Thursday September 24th and 26th beginning at 7:00 pm, at the Yankee Trails main office. Located at…
by Jess Hoffman Harbinger Theater has made a splash in the area by producing Capital Region premiers of fresh, new, unexplored plays. Their latest production, Maggie May (currently playing at Albany Civic Theater) is no exception; it is the United States premier of a play about aging and dementia originally…
by Jess Hoffman Sand Lake Center for the Arts is continuing its eclectic season with a play by Capital District native Brendan Mack about a murder trial and barnyard animals–a play that combines the wonder of children’s classic Charlotte’s Web with the gritty real world of mental illness and criminal…
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 Until I saw Schenectady Civic Players’ current production, August: Osage County was my favorite play that I had never seen. That is to say, I had read the play and absolutely loved it, but I had never had the opportunity to see it produced. Although it won…
WEB By Brendan Mack Directed by Michael McDermott AUDITION DATES: Sunday April 14 and Tuesday April 16.SIGN IN: 6:30pm. Auditions begin at 7:00pmAUDITION LOCATION: Sand Lake Center for the Arts. 2880 NY 43, Averill Park NY 12018 Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. All auditioners should bring a list…
Schenectady Civic Players will continue their 96th season in March with the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “August: Osage County” by Tracy Letts, directed by Michael McDermott. Performance dates are Friday–Sunday (March 15-17) and Wednesday–Sunday (March 20-24). Friday and Saturday curtains are at 8 pm, Wednesday and Thursday curtains are at 7:30…
