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Pinkish

by James Yeara May 1, 2013

“What do you see?” asks painter Mark Rothko, facing the audience, in Red. Rarely in theatre is a question more to the heart of the matter, unless it is “To be, or not to be,” and ...

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Set in Mark Rothko’s Manhattan studio in 1958, John Logan’s gritty, Tony Award-winning drama Red presents the great abstract expressionist at the peak of his career. He’s working on a major commission, but is also ...

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Single Girls Guide

by The Staff February 28, 2013

There’s a saucy new musical opening at Capital Repertory Theatre this week. Single Girls Guide is set in the swinging, Mad Men-era 1960s—a pretty world of cocktails and fab parties. As the press notes promise, ...

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Frank Conversations

by James Yeara January 23, 2013

Set designer Ken Goldstein gives Capital Rep’s Race a stately law office lined with orderly law books to backdrop the pristine wooden conference table edged with chrome. Deborah Constantine gives Race a clean, well-lighted look, ...

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Short and Too Sweet

by James Yeara December 6, 2012

Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life is a beloved holiday classic today. The two-hour-and-10-minute black-and-white film is as sentimental as movies come (“Capra-corn”), but there’s an edge to it, as there is in ...

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Pride@Prejudice

by The Staff September 26, 2012

If you can amp up Jane Austen with zombies, you can certainly reboot the venerable literary lioness with technology. Pride@Prejudice, opening with a preview tomorrow night (Friday, Sept. 28) at Capital Repertory Theatre, features five ...

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Savagely Funny

by John Rodat May 10, 2012

For a play with such an apocalyptic title, the setting and stakes of God of Carnage are mundane: Two couples, the Raleighs and the Novaks, meet in the Cobble Hill apartment of the latter, to ...

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Art Beat

by Shawn Stone April 26, 2012

DON’T TRY THE COBBLER The big news this week is the opening of the regional premiere of Yasmina Reza’s hit comedy God of Carnage at Capital Repertory Theatre (111 N. Peal St., Albany). It’s been ...

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Black Pearl Sings!

by The Staff March 8, 2012

The arts bring two very different women, and worlds, together in Frank Higgins’ musical drama Black Pearl Sings!, opening this week at Capital Repertory Theatre. In this story set in the Great Depression, a government-sponsored “song ...

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By the Beautiful Sea

by James Yeara May 5, 2011

Kingdom of the Shore kicks into gear at the beginning of the second act. Cathleen (Mhari Sandoval), the youngest and prettiest Moloney sister, drinks wine and flitters across the wicker couch ...

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Hat and Heart

by James Yeara March 23, 2011

"Hats are like people: Sometimes they REVEAL and sometimes they CONCEAL.” Roman Tataowicz’s set for Crowns bears the quote in raised relief like a memorial on a false procenium of smooth cream plaster. Beneath it, ...

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