Schenectady Civic Players will close their 97th season next month with the drama A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally, directed by Tom Heckert, opening May 9th. Performance dates are Friday–Sunday (May 9-11) and Wednesday–Sunday (May 14-18). Friday and Saturday curtains are at 8 pm, Wednesday and Thursday curtains are at 7:30 pm,…
Confetti Stage is excited to announce auditions for its summer production of “William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)” by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, directed by Nate Beynon. William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged) is the literary holy grail: an actual manuscript in Shakespeare’s own hand showing all…
After opening its season with Maggie May in collaboration with Harbinger Theater, Albany Civic Theater’s 2024-2025 season continues with Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond. On Golden Pond tells the story of an aging couple at their summer home in Maine. At the beginning of the summer, the couple’s daughter comes…
Albany Civic Theater presents On Golden Pond, beginning on Friday, December 6th and running until Sunday, December 22nd. Friday and Saturday performances will be at 7:30PM, and Sunday performances at 3:00PM. The play, written by Ernest Thompson, tells the story of an elderly couple, spending their 48th summer in the…
by Sierra Pasquale What could be a more idyllic setting for Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s musical The Secret Garden (based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett) than the Pitney Meadows Community Farm? As it happens, this musical, that ran for 709 performances on…
For two weekends, starting on Friday, June 7, Home Made Theater will present the musical, The Secret Garden, music by Lucy Simon, book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. The Secret Garden is based on the classic 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Orphaned in India, 11-year-old Mary…
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 Gail M. Burns If you have studied dramatic literature, you know that Alfred Jarry’s “Ubu roi” holds a seminal place in the inexorable transition from 19th to 20th century theatre. If you haven’t studied dramatic literature, you have probably never heard of it. And I would guess that the…
