Ghent Playhouse Announces 2022-2023 Season

The Ghent Playhouse announces their 2022-2023 season. BUYER & CELLAR – Written by Jonathan Tolins – Directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher This outrageously funny and irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises – a struggling L.A. actor takes a job working in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu, California basement –…

REVIEW: Panto 2021 “Rapunzel: Tale of a Quaran-Teen”

by Gail M. Burns The PantoLoons are back! The Ghent Playhouse has reopened its doors post-pandemic with its signature family-friendly laugh-fest, based on the British holiday tradition of the Panto. What is a Panto? Well, it is a British theatrical tradition for the holiday season. Basically you take a familiar…

Ghent Playhouse Announces 2021-2022 Season

[GHENT, NY] – The Ghent Playhouse proudly announces its reopening program. Kicking off the new 2021-22 season of live theater is the outrageous Panto “Rapunzel: The Tale of a Quaran-teen.” The comedy “The Curious Savage” brings in the new year, and is followed by “Fun Home,” the winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical. Closing out the season is…

REVIEW: “The Elves and The Shoemaker” Panto 2018

After two years of good-but-not-great Panto productions, the Pantoloons at the Ghent Playhouse have regained their mojo and are currently tearing up the stage with a hum-dinger of a holiday treat. The Elves and The Shoemaker is funny, timely, and colorful. The script and songs, concocted by director Cathy Lee-Visscher…

The Pantoloons annual treat in Ghent – “Ali Baba and the Four Tea Thieves”

The great tradition of the British holiday panto has thrived in Columbia County since 2000 for good reason. It is about the most fun you can have at the theatre with the whole family – a funny, musical nod to fairy tales familiar and unfamiliar, with a little cross-dressing and a lot of spoofery thrown in.

REVIEW: The Panto “Cinderella” at the Ghent Playhouse

Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2006 Gas for the car – $30 dollarsDinner at the Blue Plate – $28.50Ticket to the Ghent Playhouse – $15 or lessWatching the Panto – PRICELESS! Prince V (for Very) Charming (Sally McCarthy) is being badgered by his mother Queen Blair (Paul Murphy) and…