The Ghent Playhouse is a non-profit community theater located at 6 Town Hall Place in Ghent, NY, and is currently accepting proposals from directors interested in submitting productions for their 2023-24 theater season. While they are looking for a well-rounded season in all genres: comedy, drama, farce, etc., they are…
by Emily Edelman The musical “Fun Home,” now on stage at the Ghent Playhouse, is based on the graphic memoir of the same title by cartoonist Alison Bechdel and describes her youth growing up in a funeral home; coming out as a lesbian at college; and grappling as an adult…
The Curious Savage By John Patrick Directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29 at 7:00 p.m. AND TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. At The Ghent Playhouse 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, NY 12075 PLAY SYNOPSIS:  Ethel Savage, an eccentric widow, has been left $10 million dollars by her late husband. Her…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, May 2009 In April of 1921 popular author Elizabeth von Arnim*, then 55, widowed from her first marriage, divorced from her second, and being wooed by a handsome young man 30 years her junior, rented a medieval castello at Portofino, Italy with two other women.…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, March 2009 Oh dear sisters, our life is not yet at an end. Let us live. The music is so gay, so joyful, and, it seems that in a little while we shall know why we are living, why we are suffering…– Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, February 2009 Tom Griffin, the author of The Boys Next Door bills himself as an actor and a playwright. I have never seen him act, but based on this script he has a ways to go before he can call himself a playwright. It feels like Griffin…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, November 2008 Fabulosity, thy name is Panto! Everyone I took with me to see the 9th annual British-American Panto at the Ghent Playhouse – this year’s incarnation is nominally Jack and the Beanstalk with a smattering of Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill and Simple Simon Met a Pieman,…
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…
