After a fulfilling theater season of seeing close to 50 plays, musicals, and staged readings, I have walked away with some impressive highlights which have stayed with me. How fortunate to live in an area rich with gifted playwrights and talented performers, not to mention the able staff and crew…
by Paula Kaplan-Reiss How rare it is to attend a brand-new musical by an unknown writer and composer and to feel captured by the very first number. That was my experience seeing The Waiting, A New Musical still in process, produced by Playhouse Stage Company at the Cohoes Music Hall,…
Musical’s folk-inspired score was composed by Capital Region native and Playhouse Stage youth theatre alum, Maria Isabella Andreoli. Cohoes, N.Y. (May 30, 2025) – Playhouse Stage Company continues its 37th Season in June, with a new entry in what the company has dubbed “Playhouse Stage Premieres,” a program to develop new musical…
Calling all Capital Region performers! AUDITIONS THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 8! Come be part of a brand new musical, THE WAITING, by EmmaLee Kidwell and Capital Region native Maria Isabella Andreoli! This beautiful, folk-inspired musical will have it’s developmental premiere production at The Cohoes Music Hall, following a three-week residency at…
Enduring Rodgers & Hammerstein classic OKLAHOMA! to play at Albany’s Park Playhouse & GPAC, with new musical THE WAITING premiering at Cohoes Music HallAlbany, N.Y. (January 2, 2025) –Today, Playhouse Stage Company announced plans for its 37th Summer Season presenting professional musical theatre to Capital Region audiences in 2025. The company…
