Pre-COVID Press Releases
Thursday, March 29, 2018
SCHENECTADY—Michael McCord, of Wallingford, Vt., has joined Proctors as capital campaigns director, a newly-created position, responsible for managing specific fundraising efforts for the Schenectady arts center as well as Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany and Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs. His first assignment will be directing a $2.5 million... Read more » ... Read More
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
SARATOGA SPRINGS—Long-anticipated renovation and construction on Universal Preservation Hall will begin soon, following New York State’s announcement on Monday of a $750,000 Restore New York Communities Initiative grant to the City of Saratoga Springs through Empire State Development. “We thank Governor Cuomo, Mayor Meg Kelly and Saratoga Springs Commissioner of... Read more » ... Read More
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
ALBANY—With New York State’s announcement of a $1.8 million Restore New York Communities Initiative grant to the City of Albany through Empire State Development, Capital Repertory Theatre has revealed that it will transfer its operations, in December 2019, to Livingston Square. The National Biscuit Co. building, at 251 N. Pearl... Read more » ... Read More
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
SCHENECTADY—Proctors Digital Content Manager Kate Penn has won an Emmy® Award in the category of Video Essay (Single Camera Operator) from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Mid-Atlantic Chapter. The awards were announced Saturday, Sept. 9 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pa. Penn, a Scotia native who... Read more » ... Read More
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Schenectady Serves, Wednesday, Sept. 27, State Street Schenectady businesses join to aid in long term hurricane relief SCHENECTADY, NY—SEPT 19, 2017—As more dangerous storms swirl in the Atlantic Ocean, Schenectady remains aware that victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma will long be working to recover from the environmental, economic and... Read more » ... Read More
Thursday, March 9, 2017
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.” The public tour—which also marks the 90th anniversary of the downtown... Read more » ... Read More
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Crazed quartet to turn GE Theatre into a Dublin pub The Irish Comedy Tour takes the party atmosphere of a Dublin pub and combines it with a boisterous, belly-laugh band of hooligans. The clover—make that clever—comedians, whose ancestors hail from the Emerald Isle, include Detroit native Derek Richards; Boston-born Mike... Read more » ... Read More
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Homemade lunch with Something Rotten cast and crew was a huge success By Kate Dudding Our Taste of Home, with the cast and crew from Something Rotten, was a huge success and lots of fun (see photos). Nearly 40 people enjoyed our homemade lunch plus sandwiches from Apostrophe Café. One of... Read more » ... Read More