The Ghent Playhouse Announces Auditions for “Working”

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…

Schenectady Civic Players Present “A Broadway Holiday” Fundraiser

A Broadway Holiday Friday, December 9th at 7:00pm All tickets are $15? Our Special Holiday Fundraiser! Produced by Joseph Fava and the Schenectady Civic Players Fundraising Committee Join us for a wine and cheese pre-performance reception and a holiday-themed musical revue featuring some of your favorite local performers. The reception…

REVIEW: “Clue: The Musical” at the Ghent Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, October 2008 It’s a board game! It’s a musical! Its Clue: The Musical! Which should be titled Eight Actors in Search of a Script…and a Score. Let’s just make that Eight Actors in Search of a Show! There’s lots of talent on stage at the Ghent…

REVIEW: “Nunsense” at the Ghent Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2004 Twenty one years ago Dan Goggin opened Nunsense at a New York cabaret called the Duplex. The show was based, believe it or not, on a successful line of greeting cards Goggin had developed, and what was supposed to be a four weekend run lasted…