A Shayna Maidel (a “pretty girl” in Yiddish) is a memory play produced by The Two of Us Productions, recounting the story of two sisters reuniting after years of being separated by WWII; one sister moved to New York City prior to the war with her father, while the other sister barely survived a concentration…
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Penny Arcade Performs in the Hudson Valley at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, NY
Hudson Valley! You may remember Penny Arcade from the show, Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, premiering in 1990 at Performance Space 122 in the East Village then moving at the Village Gate. As a protest performance art piece, the show was a reaction to former Senator Jesse Helms and the political attacks on the National Endowment…
MAC-HAYDN THEATRE ANNOUNCES ‘THE FANTASTICKS’ WILL CONCLUDE 2024 SEASON OF MUSICALS
The Mac-Haydn Theatre has announced “The Fantasticks” as the sixth and concluding production of their 2024 Mainstage season schedule. The theatre’s 55th summer season will also include previously announced “West Side Story,” “Sister Act,” “RENT,” “All Shook Up,” and “Something Rotten.” Tickets are now on sale at www.machaydntheatre.org. Known to many as “the world’s longest-running musical,”…
Scatological Japanese Performance Art Deconstructs Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Chatham, New York
I saw a show called “Hamlet | Toilet” and said to myself, ‘I have to go!’ Prior to Columbia County, I lived in the East Village of NYC from 1987 until 2009. With multiple NYU Drama School friends and roommates, I’ve sat through more than my fair share of black box avant garde theater performances….
MAC-HAYDN THEATRE ANNOUNCES 2024 SEASON OF MUSICALS
The Mac-Haydn Theatre has announced the first 5 musicals of its 2024 Mainstage season schedule, composing the theatre’s 55th summer season. The lineup of hit musicals includes “West Side Story,” “Sister Act,” “RENT,” “All Shook Up,” and “Something Rotten.” Tickets are now on sale at www.machaydntheatre.org. Consisting of both classics and contemporary pieces, Producing Artistic…
Ancram Opera House Becomes Ancram Center for the Arts
Reflecting its growth as a regional creative hub serving the Hudson Valley, Berkshires and Litchfield County, Ancram Opera House is taking on the new name of Ancram Center for the Arts. The announcement was made November 25 by Ancram Opera House Co-Directors Paul Ricciardi and Jeffrey Mousseau and Board President Cathy Redlich at a Community…
“A Christmas Memory” at the Park Theater Hudson – Poignant and Powerful
The Whale Theatre, in association with the Tectonic Theater Project presents Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory & The Thanksgiving Visitor” this month at the Park Theater Hudson. I have always thought that people who decide to live in Hudson do not necessarily fit in elsewhere. Why move to Hudson? Why not live in Nutley, New…
A Rodelina Appreciation
Honestly, I’m not an opera critic, I just like going to the opera. I’ve been going for years because I like the way the music washes over me. I like the various voices, the drama, the passion and intrigue – even if, at times, I can’t follow the plot. I like to look at the…
Theater Review : The Glass Menagerie at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill
I have a strange mental block around traveling anywhere that requires crossing a bridge. Something about traversing a body of water signals to my psyche that I’m going a VERY FAR distance (even if it’s not). Which speaks to the quality of of theater being produced at Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre. I will, fairly regularly…
The Marvelous Wonderettes
It’s fitting that The Marvelous Wonderettes closes out this hot summer season at The Mac-Haydn Theatre, as the show, like a musical Aperol Spritz, embodies the essence of summer itself: sweet fizzy fun, bursting in technicolor. This jukebox musical is stitched around a catalogue of hit 1950s and 1960s radio hits, which makes the urge…