Berkshire on Stage

Harbinger Theatre is thrilled to announce our 2025 season, which includes four more Capital Region Premieres bringing Harbinger’s total of premieres to 18 in 4 years, featuring a bold lineup of plays that tackle love, loss, and the divides of our time. The season opens with Bryna Turner’s “At The…

*SCENE NIGHT**Wednesday, 12/18**Albany Barn**7pm, FREE* Scenes and monologues from the students of Acting Class with Patrick White‘s Fall Session. Works from Davis, Frost, Gilman, Gionfriddo, Kennedy, Lipton, Rosenstock, Turner, Williams & Wykes.  Actors: Jen Ansong, Debby Bercier, Mason Calarco, Joe Christopher, Jessica Cordova, Ro DellAcqua, Chris Foster, Amy Hausknecht, Tara…

by Jess Hoffman Eugene O’Neill is a love-him-or-hate-him sort of playwright. I have spoken to many local thespians who hate Eugene O’Neill, with his propensity toward long, verbose, depressing, and overly philosophical plays about the everyday lives of the downtrodden. I personally love Eugene O’Neill for his mastery of the…

ALBANY – Harbinger Theatre closes its third season with “Into the Breeches!” by George Brant, directed by Lauren D’Annibale at The Albany Barn. This will be the Harbinger debut of seven new actors and the director’s first time directing. Our play about women taking a position of power for the first time, opens…

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…

ALBANY – Harbinger Theater will continue our third season with its 13th Capital Region premiere, presenting “Maggie May” by Frances Poet. This production will not only be a local premiere, but will also mark the play’s debut in the United States! Directed by Chris Foster, this play will be a co-production with Albany Civic…

by Dan Mayer After seeing The Squirrels at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts, a friend who had accompanied me asked, with visible confusion, what we had just watched. That is the sort of question invited by writer Robert Askins’ bizarre tragicomedy, and Harbinger Theatre‘s production embraces the absurdity…

ALBANY – Harbinger Theatre will continue our third season with our 13th consecutive Capital Region Premiere, “The Squirrels” by Tony Award nominee, Robert Askins. Directed by Patrick White, this production will be held at Sand Lake Center for the Arts. Summer might be right around the corner but in our wildly imaginative play, winter is on the…