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War Stories

by Erin Pihlaja May 8, 2013

When Brianna Carter, age 17, first met the nine female veterans whose stories are the heart of the play, On Her Shoulders, she was surprised. She had expected, as she describes, the “G.I. Jane” type—the ...

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Miami Spice

by Ann Morrow July 25, 2012

It’s unlikely that pink flamingos were part of the set design for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night during its Elizabethan run, but for this season’s production by Saratoga Shakespeare Company, flamingos, and panama hats and Salsa music, ...

Congress Park

Cowgirls

by The Staff May 30, 2012

“Ki yi yippi yi yea!” Saddle up, little pards, and mosey on over to Time & Space Limited: Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce are fixin’ to join forces with performance artist C. Ryder Cooley this weekend ...

Time and Space Limited

Shake!

by B.A. Nilsson October 19, 2011

Shaker leader Ann Lee, who emigrated from England in 1774 with eight followers, was known to her followers as “Mother Ann,” an ironic designation when you consider that she never cared for sexual activity and ...

Proctors

Fall Arts Listings

by The Staff September 15, 2011

Pop Music Bearsville Theater 291 Tinker St., Woodstock, (845) 679-4406. Sept. 26: the Bruce Katz Band. Sept 30: Bearsville Session #4—Motown. Oct. 3: Kate Taylor. Oct. 10: Jay Collins and the Kings County Band. Oct. 14: Stephen Stills. ...

Berkshire Fringe Festival

by The Staff July 28, 2011

The New York Times called Berkshire Fringe “sassy and experimental . . . the Enfant Terrible of the region.” And this year the kids are making an effort to keep up the buzz. The festival features ...

Daniel Arts Center

The K of D, an Urban Legend

by The Staff June 22, 2011

As the subtitle of Laura Schellhardt’s play suggests, The K of D is an eerie, unsettling drama with the narrative kick of a classic urban legend. Set in a lakeside resort town over the course ...

Charles R. Wood Theater

Play By Play: Shadows

by The Staff June 22, 2011

Each year, Stageworks/Hudson presents Play by Play, a festival of eight new one-act plays, all performed by a cast of four actors and directed by two directors. It’s an ambitious undertaking that they have realized ...

Stageworks/Hudson

The Memory of Water

by The Staff June 15, 2011

There is a theory that water retains a memory of substances dissolved in it, even after they’ve been diluted beyond recognition. So it is, in a way, with family, as each generation leaves its indelible ...

Shakespeare & Company

Blood Type: Ragu

by The Staff May 25, 2011

The Capital Region knows a thing or two about rich Italian heritage and simmering the perfect sauce. And with its final offering of the season, Capital Repertory digs in with Blood Type: Ragu, a coming-of-age ...

Capital Repertory Theatre

Kingdom of the Shore

by The Staff April 20, 2011

In this TV world, one of the many joys of live theater is the immediacy of its creation and performance. And theater doesn’t get much closer to home than when a regional theater develops and ...

Capital Repertory Theatre

Harvey

by The Staff April 20, 2011

Though we haven’t had an invisible pal since our preschool days, we’re fully supportive and appreciative of those of you who may still have such friends. Take Elwood P. Dowd, the lead character in the ...

Spa Little Theater

One Night Only

by Kathryn Geurin March 23, 2011

On Saturday afternoon, a handful of professional actors, directors, playwrights, producers and improvisers gathered in a rehearsal room at Albany’s Capital Repertory Theatre, some meeting for the first time, some rekindling years-old connections, others on ...

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The Lion King

by The Staff February 16, 2011

Director Julie Taymor made Broadway history in 1997 when she became the first woman to win a Tony Award for direction of a musical. Her victory? The Lion King. Adapted from Disney’s animated film, the visually ...

Proctors

Proof

by The Staff February 9, 2011

When Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about faith, fact and the delicate boundary between genius and madness, opened on Broadway a decade ago it swept the major awards and won the hearts of theatergoers ...

Albany Civic Theater

Good Grief

by John Rodat February 9, 2011

Though Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead has no official association with the estate of Charles M. Schulz—a fact the program notes are careful to highlight—the inspiration for the show is blatant: What ...

Confetti Stage

That’s Entertainment

by James Yeara February 9, 2011

‘Seeing is believing,” Louis de Rougemont (Martin LaPlatney) declares in his concluding dare to the audience in Capital Repertory Theatre’s engaging production of Shiprwrecked! An Entertainment, an adventure of pure theatrical magic. From the moment ...

Capital Repertory Theatre

The Sweepers

by The Staff January 12, 2011

Playwright John C. Picardi has ambitious plans. He intends to write a series of 10 plays chronicling the Italian-American experience in the 20th century. Yup. One for each decade. He has two under his belt ...

Curtain Call Theatre

To Life

by B.A. Nilsson January 5, 2011

MUSIC BY JERRY BOCK, LYRICS BY SHELDON HARNICK, BOOK BY JOSEPH STEIN, DIRECTED BY SAMMY DALLAS BAYES PROCTORS, THROUGH JAN. 9 When Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway in 1964, musical theater was still supplying songs ...

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