NEW LEBANON, NY—On September 10th, 2022, at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, New York, HRC Showcase Theatre will present a staged reading of The Springvale Armadillo, a full-length play by Donald Loftus, inspired by a true story. The play is about a young woman who was involuntarily institutionalized due to…
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 spring break in 1995. Although The…
HRC Showcase Theatre, performing this summer at The Theater Barn in New Lebanon, is seeking a young actress in her 20s to take part in a staged reading of TOUCH THE MOON by Arianna Rose. The play is based on the true story of a young woman who went on…
To our Dear Audiences, We are still Here! If you have read of the pause The Theater Barn is taking for the rest of its season, I write to let you know that HRC Showcase Theatre is proceeding with our season there as scheduled, presenting award-winning new plays for audiences at…
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…
