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…
by Roseann Cane The term “Boston Marriage” was likely derived from Henry James’s 1886 novel The Bostonians. In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, the term was used to describe a household where two unmarried women lived together, independent of men. Whether all such relationships were romantic and/or sexual…
New Lebanon, NY—HRC Showcase Theatre, previously based in Hudson, New York, would like to welcome you to its 2nd staged reading of 2022 of original plays at its new location The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, New York. HRC’s new home for four productions in 2022. This second reading like the…
Boston Marriage by David Mamet is set in the early 1900’s during the gilded age in a Bostonian drawing room. This devastatingly funny comedy tells the story of Anna and Claire, two bantering, scheming “women of fashion” who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become…
NEW LEBANON, NY—On June 18, 2022, HRC Showcase Theatre will present a staged reading of How We Survived, by Pauline David-Sax. Freyda, a widowed survivor of Nazi Germany, resists filing for survivor benefits on behalf of her late husband. When her frustrated daughter takes matters into her own hands, she unearths…
NEW LEBANON, NY—On May 7, 2022, HRC Showcase Theatre, now based in New Lebanon, New York will launch its 31st season with a staged reading of For the People, by Carol Mullen. For the People is the fictional story of Pittsburgh city councilwoman Meg Cabot, the first openly lesbian elected official in Pennsylvania…
New Lebanon, NY—HRC Showcase Theatre, previously based in Hudson, New York, has resumed its staged readings of original plays at a new location. In September, 2021, following a hiatus due to the pandemic, the company performed Jerry Slaff’s “Lies” at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, New York. That venue…
New Lebanon, NY—After three decades in various venues in Hudson, New York, HRC Showcase Theatre is announcing the resumption of its program of staged readings of original plays at a new location: The Theater Barn in New Lebanon. In early spring, 2020, HRC was in the midst of its 30th…
