Category: Capital Repertory Theatre
Posts that in any way mention or have to do with Capital Repertory Theatre.
A unique summer education acting program for Capital Region teens. Students in the Summer Stage Young Acting Company don’t just learn lines and rehearse scenes. They’re part of a collaboration with winners of the Young Playwright Contest. Each summer, Summer Stage actors breathe life into characters created by their peers. ... Read more » ... Read More
Using former Gomez Electrical Contracting site as production facility for theREP ALBANY, NY—AUG. 11, 2017—Capital Repertory Theatre and Proctors have announced the purchase of the former Gomez Electrical Contracting building at 251 N. Pearl street for use as a production facility for theREP. Capital Repertory Theatre, founded in 1981, is the... Read more » ... Read More
Winning entries from the Young Playwright Contest performed by Summer Stage Young Acting Company ALBANY, NY—AUG. 1, 2017—Six winning entries in Capital Repertory Theatre’s third annual Young Playwright Contest will receive world premieres at the downtown playhouse, Aug. 10–13. Each 10-minute piece—further developed in exclusive mentoring workshops with The God Game playwright Suzanne Bradbeer—is professionally produced,... Read more » ... Read More
Kevin McGuire brings powerful musical love story Some People Hear Thunder to Capital Repertory Theatre Some People Hear Thunder is a powerful musical love story—an uplifting tale of a young reporter, his true love in America, and Armenians fighting for dignity and survival in the face of brutality. Set between 1914... Read more » ... Read More
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