Category: Capital Repertory Theatre
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Irish immigrant play touring schools is staged at theREP for 1 performance Capital Repertory Theatre announces a public performance of the popular On-The-Go! Production, They Built America: The Workers of the Erie Canal, at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 8. Researched by historian Rena Kosersky and written by theREP’s Producing Artistic Director... Read more » ... Read More
Popular adaptation of classic Greek tale fuses words and music in a spare, modern telling, March 10–April 2 A man stands in a broken space. Now. Today. A cello plays. He speaks. The years come pouring out. What’s past is gone, what’s past is here. Lisa Peterson and... Read more » ... Read More
Monday night, in a surprise party for patrons old and new, Proctors and Capital Repertory Theatre once again revealed exciting new series, with special subscription packages linking the two venues in Schenectady and Albany. Among the revelations at the annual party was that “Hamilton” will be a part of the... Read more » ... Read More
Celebrate Women’s Suffrage with Capital Repertory Theatre’s On-The-Go! The roots of the recent Women’s March on Washington reach back to the stirrings of the Women’s Right Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in summer 1848, which in turn was a bellwether step towards passage, in fall 1917, of the right for... Read more » ... Read More
Assisted Loving: Dating with My Dad World Premiere at Capital Repertory Theatre, Jan. 27–Feb. 19 Dating is hard enough on its own, much less when you have to screen your father’s options, too. Bob Morris’ hilarious, poignant new play Assisted Loving: Dating with My Dad posits a brave new world... Read more » ... Read More
Kevin McGuire stars as King Arthur in Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot at Capital Repertory Theatre Even the names are romantic—Arthur, Guenevere, Lancelot, Mordred, Morgan LeFey … And the score, oh my, the score—“If Ever I Would Leave You,” “The Lusty Month of May,” “The Simple Joys of Maidenhood,” “I Wonder... Read more » ... Read More
NEXT ACT! New Play Summit 5, a joint venture between Capital Repertory Theatre and Proctors, will feature readings of two contest winning works and a new musical, as well as a Second Look at a piece from 2014’s First 15 event. Celebrating its fifth anniversary, NEXT ACT! has become a... Read more » ... Read More
Doubt and Moonstruck award winner’s romantic Irish comedy lands at theREP Two small Westmeath farms, adjacent, yet worlds apart. He’s a worker, middle-aged, toiling the land he was born to, day in day out. She’s a queen, bossy, not young, but still beautiful, looking out from her porch at evening’s... Read more » ... Read More
The six winning plays in Capital Repertory Theatre’s second annual Young Playwright Contest cover a wide range of topics, from silly school tournaments to the struggles teens face on the road to self-discovery and acceptance. Free performances of all six brief titles will be offered on four dates: 4 p.m.... Read more » ... Read More
Her story, told by the Queen of Rock herself, on the concert stage, one more time “Oh lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz … “ Janis Joplin wanted it all. And she gave all to get it. Few voices linger in the iconography of rock like Joplin’s unique... Read more » ... Read More