Author: Proctors Web Team
At Proctors and Capital Repertory Theatre “We Are Theatre,” and soon the entire Capital Region will share in the drama, the comedy, the music, the dance and more. This week virtually every home in a 14 county area (over 650,000 addresses) will receive the new 2016-2017 brochure from Proctors and... Read more » ... Read More
Horton Foote captures small town life with a ‘loving palette‘ in The Trip to Bountiful Sometimes, you have to run away from home to find it again. In Horton Foote’s classic drama, The Trip To Bountiful, Carrie Watts dreams of getting back home, not just to Bountiful, but to a... Read more » ... Read More
Legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp joined representatives from Catskill Mountain Foundation, Proctors and Saratoga Performing Arts Center to launch Pathways to Dance, an annual eight-county, ten-venue Capital Region initiative, in concert with Manhattan’s Joyce Theater, designed to support new dance creation and presentation. At the University at Albany’s Performing Arts Center... Read more » ... Read More
The Schenectady County Visitors Agency today announced two conferences that will be held in downtown Schenectady this year as efforts ramp-up to attract more conferences and meetings to Schenectady County. “We are competing for and winning new conference business for Schenectady County,” said Anthony Jasenski, Chairman of the Schenectady County... Read more » ... Read More
The School of Performing Arts at Proctors, in partnership with Capital Repertory Theatre, expands its summer offerings in 2016, with its Broadway Camp students mounting a full-scale production of “All Shook Up,” directed by Steven Yuhasz, August 5–6 on the historic Schenectady MainStage. Auditions for ages 14–19 will be held... Read more » ... Read More
Gordon Greenberg returns to theREP to direct loopy look at the birth of the Apollo space program Neil Armstrong’s small step was more than just a leap for mankind. It was a brushstroke for humanity. Deborah Brevoort’s highly theatrical comedy The Blue-Sky Boys posits a critical nexus between science and... Read more » ... Read More
Schenectady’s Talia Cass, Tourism & Convention manager for Schenectady County Visitors Association, has accepted a seat as board member with the New York State Tourism Industry Association. Working under the auspices of Proctors, in a position partially funded by Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority, Cass has, since May 2014, served as... Read more » ... Read More
Vaudeville empresario F.F. Proctor was born on St. Patrick’s Day, 1851. In his honor, the theatre’s historical committee offers an annual March tour of Proctors, the crown jewel of his circuit of eponymous entertainment halls—“a palace for the people.” Due to the extended run of “Disney’s The Lion King,” this... Read more » ... Read More
Little River Band lands at Proctors with 40th anniversary tour Australian hit-makers Little River Band helped define the sound of the late 70s and early 80s, with a distinctive, hooky, laid-back sound that dominated radio and paired well with international touring mates like The Doobie Brothers, Supertramp, America, Heart, Boz... Read more » ... Read More
Beautiful–The Carole King Musical makes Broadway part of theREP subscription plan Monday night, for the first time, Proctors and Capital Repertory Theatre joined to reveal respective upcoming seasons, with subscription packages that link the two venues. The announcement, fashioned as a mock political debate between Proctors CEO Philip Morris and... Read more » ... Read More