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Heroes

by The Staff June 13, 2013

Shakespeare & Company’s latest production, Heroes, opens with a preview performance tonight (Thursday). The award-winning Heroes is “the irreverent and poignant story of three World War I veterans confined to a retirement home in their ...

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Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody

by The Staff May 1, 2013

After a decade or so of the biggest publishing phenomenon revolving around teenage wizards, it’s only fair that an adult-oriented trilogy—ahem, sex, ahem, BDSM—should take the pop-literary world by storm. And it was only a ...

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Lewis Black

by The Staff March 20, 2013

We’d tell you that Lewis Black is pissed off, but you already know that. In fact, it’s the whole point to his epic disquisitions on what’s wrong with politics, society . . . everything. Black’s latest ...

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Mike Epps

by The Staff February 28, 2013

From his Def Comedy Jam days through his Showtime special to a gig hosting the BET Hip Hop Awards, Mike Epps has always known how to make people laugh. Epps is also widely recognized for ...

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The Gender Defenders

by The Staff February 14, 2013

Let’s face it: Not everyone can get free for the big Valentine’s date on a Thursday night. Saturday, however, is perfect; and, as it just so happens, the Palace is hosting the Gender Defenders comedy ...

Palace Theatre

5th Annual New Year’s Eve Comedy Blast

by The Staff December 27, 2012

Comedy seems to be durable New Year’s entertainment in the Capital Region. In addition to shows at a number of the usual venues, the Palace Theatre is hosting its 5th Annual New Year’s Eve Comedy ...

Palace Theatre

Man Out of Time

by B.A. Nilsson November 20, 2012

The six-DVD set that Shout! Factory released last year was as wonderful a bounty of Ernie Kovacs material as you could desire, righting the wrong inflicted by an earlier collection that chopped his shows to ...

Bill Cosby

by The Staff November 8, 2012

There’s a great scene in the documentary about Jerry Seinfeld’s post-sitcom life, Comedian, which shows the comic in a daze while driving back from a visit with Bill Cosby. Caught in his own mid-career crisis, ...

Palace Theatre

The Second City

by The Staff October 11, 2012

Are you enjoying the election season yet? The Second City, Chicago’s legendary sketch/improv-comedy institution, is concerned that your mental well-being is being challenged by pollsters, spin doctors, pusillanimous pundits and dissembling and/or somnambulant politicians. And they’re ...

Palace Theatre

An Odd Couple

by Rick Marshall September 7, 2012

Filmmaker Jake Schreier’s Robot & Frank is set in the “near future,” but with the exception of a few fancy cars, some spiffy video-chatting technology, and the aforementioned robot, it’s a science-fiction story that does ...

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Twelfth Night

by The Staff August 30, 2012

Viola loves Orsino; Orsino loves Olivia; Olivia loves Viola, who, we should probably mention, is disguised as a man. There’s also a villain, and a missing twin brother, lurking about somewhere. Yes, we’re in the weird ...

Albany Civic Theater

Brace Yourself

by The Staff August 8, 2012

If you’re going to create a comedy of catastrophe, there’s no reason to hold back. In David Epstein’s comedy Brace Yourself, which is having its world premiere this week on the Berkshire Theatre Group’s main ...

Berkshire Theatre Group Fitzpatrick Main Stage

Paula Poundstone

by The Staff August 2, 2012

“Armed with nothing but a stool, a microphone and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula’s ability to create humor on the spot has become the stuff of legend.” So say the folks at the Egg, who ...

The Egg

Michael L. Walters

by The Staff August 2, 2012

One man, two shows: That’s what singer-actor-comedian and “Mr. Broadway” Michael L. Walters will bring to the Mansion of Saratoga this week. Tonight (Thursday) he will be himself, singing Broadway standards and telling “hilarious stories” about ...

Mansion of Saratoga

Time-Travel Transformation

by Laura Leon May 30, 2012

A few weeks ago, during one of those bouts of sleeplessness where you mull over troubling work and family situations ad nauseum, I thought about Will Smith. Why, I’ll never know, but in my nocturnal ...

Wrong Window!

by The Staff May 24, 2012

If you love mysteries so much that you enjoy a good parody of the genre, then Billy van Zandt and Jane Milmore’s Wrong Window! is the play for you. Curtain Call Theatre will present this ...

Curtain Call Theatre

Bed and Sofa

by The Staff April 19, 2012

The New York State Writers Institute is in the middle of finishing out its Spring film series with a quartet of silent-film delights. The Institute already has presented Daddy Long Legs, Marshall Neilan’s charming slice ...

University at Albany Page Hall

Brew Ha-Ha Comedy Showcase

by The Staff April 18, 2012

Greg Aidala’s next comedy clambake will be held in Latham this weekend, and he’s offering a smorgasbord of national and local talent. Toplining the show will be Moody McCarthy (left), whose resume includes Last Comic Standing ...

Holiday Inn Express

Bill Burr

by The Staff March 29, 2012

“Bill is against organized religion and believes we should go back to the gold standard. None of his opinions are based on reliable information. He tends to go with his first thought, because reading makes ...

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood

by The Staff March 29, 2012

These guys. Even if you don’t know their names, there’s a good chance they look familiar, and a better chance that they’ve made you laugh. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood became familiar basic-cable faces thanks to ...

Proctors

Lend Me a Tenor

by The Staff February 22, 2012

Beginning Friday night, Curtain Call Theatre is presenting Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor, a 1986 comedy set in 1930s Cleveland. More specifically, it’s described as a “screwball comedy,” a term that suggests something sophisticated, sublime ...

Curtain Call Theatre

John Pinette

by The Staff February 9, 2012

We’d be wary about making fat jokes with regard to comedian John Pinette, but he’d beat us to it anyway. The food-obsessed comic’s most recent Comedy Central special, which debuted in July 2011, was called ...

The Egg

Jim Gaffigan

by The Staff January 5, 2012

He looks perfectly normal. Well, almost perfectly normal. In most photos, comedian Jim Gaffigan has a look in his eyes that’s a cross between skeptical and highly amused. He’s like the quiet guy at the ...

Proctors

First Night of Funny

by The Staff December 30, 2011

After another year of gloomy news, sending off 2011 and welcoming 2012 with a good laugh isn’t such a bad idea, is it? This was clearly the thought behind Proctors’ First Night of Funny, a New ...

Tom Perrotta

by The Staff November 22, 2011

Economic collapse and growing income inequality have contributed, according to many economists, to the decline of the middle class. Novelist Tom Perrotta, in tales like The Abstinence Teacher and his latest, The Leftovers, is one ...

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