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    Patrick White is a Capital Region actor, director and teacher who attends hundreds of plays and musicals a year throughout New York and New England. He is profoundly grateful to live in Albany which has such a thriving theater scene and lies in close proximity to some of the finest world class theater. He teaches a private acting class Sunday mornings at Albany Barn and his next directing project is the inaugural production of Harbinger Theatre, "The Christians" by Lucas Hnath at Albany Barn, 12/2-12/11.

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    “B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching” Bears Investigation

    Patrick White Jun 27, 2022
    There are at least three strong stories running through “B.R.O.K.E.N code B.I.R.D switching” which could easily support their own play. They are about a mixed-race couple…
    Theater

    The Theater Barn Suspends Operations Mid-Season

    Patrick White Jun 25, 2022
    The Theater Barn, a family-owned summer theater in New Lebanon, New York has announced that it will suspend operations mid-season following the closing performance of the…
    Arts

    ATF Compels Viewing ‘The Chinese Lady’

    Patrick White Jun 22, 2022
    In 1834, the Carne Brothers bought 14-year-old Afong Moy from her father in Canton, China for the purpose of displaying her as the first Chinese woman seen in America. It was…
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    “Airness” Wants To Rock!

    Patrick White Jun 12, 2022
    Chelsea Marcantel's play "Airness" at Shadowland Stages is about a national air guitar competition, it's participants and a young newbie named Nina who wants desperately to…
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    Happy to Pay My Respects to “Fourteen Funerals”

    Patrick White Jun 11, 2022
    Thank God for the restorative powers of comedy. After the grief stricken month of May personally and nationally there is some kind of alchemical magic working in…
    Theater

    Art and Politics Share a Bedroom in “Andy Warhol in Iran”

    Patrick White Jun 10, 2022
    In 1976, Andy Warhol flew to Tehran to take Polaroids of Empress Farah Pahlavi, whom he had met with her husband, the Shah of Iran, at the White House the previous year…
    Theater

    Five Questions with Rose Biggerstaff

    Patrick White May 25, 2022
    Capital Region theater offers myriad opportunities to perform and collaborate. This weekend, I grabbed the chance to appear in "An Evening of Performances" directed and…
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    “Deathtrap” Gets All the Laughs and a Fright or Two

    Patrick White May 14, 2022
    “Deathtrap” by Ira Levin is the perennial comedy thriller that opened on Broadway 44 years ago and earned the distinction of being the longest-running comedy-thriller when it…
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    Take “The Approach” to a Most Promising New Berkshire Season of Theater

    Patrick White May 9, 2022
    I’ve always felt that the theatrical experience begins the moment you enter the building and the theater-makers have many opportunities to start weaving their spell before a…
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    CTG Offers a Rare and Wounding Arthur Miller Play with “Broken Glass”

    Patrick White Jan 26, 2022
    Classic Theater Guild is producing a rarely done Arthur Miller play "Broken Glass" and should be congratulated and supported for offering a thoughtful, cogent telling of such…
    Theater

    SLOC Faces the Moment and Produces an Evening of Hope

    Patrick White Jan 22, 2022
    Composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown have said about his 1995 collection "Songs for a New World": "It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a…
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    Best of 2021: Greater Nippertown Area Theater

    Patrick White Dec 31, 2021
    We drove to Stamford, CT in February to see a play but it was late April before there were productions in the Capital Region. Much of the theater we saw this year was…
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    Playhouse Stage’s “A Year with Frog & Toad” Could Not Be More Charming

    Patrick White Dec 18, 2021
    Playhouse Stage opens its 34th season with “A Year with Frog & Toad” for a brief run at the Cohoes Music Hall. Act fast because this show could not be more charming or in…
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    “The Christians” Opens at Albany Barn Thursday

    Patrick White Nov 30, 2021
    As with many performers from large families, the dining room table was my first stage. It’s where you could try out new material, mimic funny voices, and compete with…
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    Grab Your Seat at the Table for “The Thanksgiving Play”

    Patrick White Nov 14, 2021
    Circle Theatre Players, in their 42nd Season, has scored the coup of presenting the Capital Region premiere of Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play.” In reading up on…
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    Bridge Street Ascends the Summit of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”

    Patrick White Nov 13, 2021
    “It’s the Mount Everest of American drama. Arguably the greatest play written by a native dramatist in the 20th Century.” So begins Bridge Street Theatre’s press release for…
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    “Over the River” Serves Plentiful Laughs Family Style

    Patrick White Nov 8, 2021
    Much like the lead character of Nick Cristano in Curtain Call Theatre’s production of Joe DiPietro’s 1994 very successful family comedy, the audience is welcomed into the…
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    ConfettiFest XVII Puts Women Center Stage!

    Patrick White Nov 7, 2021
    Last night ConfettiFest came roaring back to the stage with a celebration of women that had some of the finest actors in the Capital Region doing great work in five original…
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    Happy Back at School with Union College’s “Sex Habits!”

    Patrick White Nov 5, 2021
    There’s a giddy house of mirrors kick to ”The Sex Habits of American Women” at Union College’s Yulman Theatre. The play opens in the 1950’s living room with Haoyu (John)…
    LIVE

    LIVE: Michael Buble @ Times Union Center, 10/19/2021

    Patrick White Oct 20, 2021
    After four cancellations and eighteen months of waiting Michael Buble magically appeared by hidden elevator at the very top of his enormous bandshell which held his 34-piece…
    Theater

    Bridge Street Theatre’s “Lewiston” is a Rewarding American Journey

    Patrick White Oct 11, 2021
    Have you ever driven by a roadside attraction and played with the idea of who and what must be by the side of the road for the next few miles? “Lewiston” is a highly…
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    “The Diary of Anne Frank” is Always Relevant at Fort Salem Theatre

    Patrick White Oct 10, 2021
    “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank is 74 years old this year. It has sold over 30 million copies, been translated into 70 languages, been adapted into two plays, a…
    Theater

    “Shirley Valentine” Lives It Up!

    Patrick White Oct 8, 2021
    “Shirley Valentine” is another one person show, this one about a dissatisfied, middle-aged, Liverpudlian housewife but this 1986 comedy by Willy Russell (“Blood Brothers,”…
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    “A Crossing” at BSC Promises and Delivers a Most Exciting Journey

    Patrick White Oct 4, 2021
    “A Crossing-A Dance Musical” is being given a World Premiere at Barrington Stage Company through 10/16 and it is unlike any musical you have ever seen. It is described as a…
    Art

    Casey Polomaine Talks Fusion Fundraiser 10/15 at Albany and Electric City Barns

    Patrick White Sep 18, 2021
    Albany Barn and Electric City Barn in Schenectady are vital, generous, and accommodating spaces for artists to create and thrive. They are holding their fundraiser, Fusion an…
    Theater

    “Miss Gulch Returns!” is a Dream They Dared to Dream at Bridge Street

    Patrick White Sep 14, 2021
    I think it’s a great idea to imagine a drag performer taking on the character of Almira Gulch, the single woman of a certain age who gave us all a fright as children when she…
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    “Weekend Comedy”… Maybe, For Some

    Patrick White Sep 12, 2021
    It’s a great marker in the return to normalcy after a cataclysmic event to be confronted with the average or indifferent, it truly lets you know that life goes on. It is…
    Theater

    A Great View of Class Conflict with Theater Barn’s “Good People”

    Patrick White Sep 10, 2021
    Actors need challenging scripts to do great work. There is proof being offered at The Theater Barn where the cast and the director of David Lindsay-Abaire’s brilliant,…
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    “The Turn of the Screw” Works Its Haunting Wiles in Oldcastle’s Exquisite…

    Patrick White Sep 8, 2021
    There is a crispness in the air, the leaves are on the edge of turning and there are cider donuts for sale on the beautiful drive up to Bennington putting one in the perfect…
    Theater

    LAGS’ “The Guys” Commemorates 9/11 at Schenectady Civic Playhouse

    Patrick White Sep 7, 2021
    This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11. Anne Nelson's play "The Guys" is being given three performances…
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    “Buyer & Cellar” Demands a Lot From Actor And Supplies Huge Laughs

    Patrick White Aug 28, 2021
    I don’t know if there’s a more profound satisfaction than watching an actor you’ve known for years take on an enormously challenging role and just kill it. Shayne David…
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    All Eyes Are On the Divine Jannie Jones in “Ethel Waters” at Capital Repertory…

    Patrick White Aug 26, 2021
    There was great anticipation outside what used to be an old Nabisco bakery building on Tuesday night. There was a band playing on the sidewalk and politicians cutting the…
    Theater

    Jake & Brandon Offer FREE Concert at Cohoes Music Hall, August 25th

    Patrick White Aug 24, 2021
    There’s a special end of summer concert being thrown at The Cohoes Music Hall Wednesday night, 8/25 at 8 pm featuring Jake Goodman and Brandon Jones on piano and Dan Galliher…
    Theater

    Auditions are back! Get your drama onstage

    Patrick White Aug 23, 2021
    The greatest thing Capital Region theater has to offer is opportunity. There are dozens of groups that are producing all sorts of performing arts with opportunities for…
    Theater

    “Sister Sorry” at BSC Is an Intense Whodunwhat

    Patrick White Aug 23, 2021
    After the last six years in this country, are you interested enough to spend an evening’s entertainment watching how and why a person lies? If a confession is untethered from…
    Theater

    Chester’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” Has Radical Sincerity To Move and Inspire

    Patrick White Aug 21, 2021
    There is a story to be told in Chester Theatre Company’s season of three plays staged under a tent at the Shaker Hancock Village in this summer of re-emergence. “Title and…
    Theater

    Felicia Curry is Transcendent in “Nina Simone: Four Women”!

    Patrick White Aug 19, 2021
    There is an extraordinary performance by Felicia Curry playing the title character of “Nina Simone: Four Women” currently being produced by the Berkshire Theatre Group on the…
    Theater

    Actress Monet Thompson Cooks Up a “Barbecue” This Weekend and Next

    Patrick White Aug 19, 2021
    A Quick Take with Monet Thompson​Monet Thompson is readying her second performance of the summer when she ​steps onstage Friday for Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY,…
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    “Nietzsche! The Musical” Receives FREE Reading This Saturday 8/21 at Fort Salem Theater

    Patrick White Aug 18, 2021
    Hebron residents Kimerer LaMothe and Geoffrey Gee will present a developmental reading of their brand new musical – Nietzsche! – on the MainStage of the Fort…
    Theater

    “Queen of the Night” Sings Out in the Dark Woods

    Patrick White Aug 17, 2021
    There are many things to be afraid of in the woods even if you love the outdoors as Ty, irresistibly played by Leland Fowler, proclaims in his opening monologue. They have to…
    Theater

    HVSF Offers A Soul Stirring “Tempest” For Our Times

    Patrick White Aug 13, 2021
    Unforgettable nights of theater are created out of a confluence of many elements; the play, setting, company, themes and timing. All of these contributions and more work…
    Theater

    Love Expressed “Night and Day” at The Theater Barn

    Patrick White Aug 9, 2021
    “Night and Day: Love Lost and Found Through the Eyes of Cole Porter” is a revue at The Theater Barn of over two dozen Porter classics and a story about two couples spending a…
    Theater

    Barrington Stage’s “Boca” Offers World Premiere Laughs All Night Long

    Patrick White Aug 5, 2021
    Barrington Stage Company is producing the show for all the people who say what they want when they go to the theater is “they just want to laugh.” “Boca,” a World Premiere by…
    Theater

    Playhouse Fills The Park With Revolting Children in Winning “Matilda”

    Patrick White Aug 5, 2021
    Imagine there’s a small group of extraordinarily talented children and they’ve been promised a showcase to their talents over a year and a half ago but a worldwide cataclysm…
    Interviews

    Ellen Cribbs Brings The Funny Directing “A Servant of Two Masters”

    Patrick White Aug 4, 2021
    There is a not-so-secret weapon in Capital Region theater and she goes by the name of Ellen Cribbs. Since moving here from Chicago in 2017, I have been keenly watching her…
    Theater

    Mac Haydn Discovers the Extraordinary in Their First Staging of “Pippin”

    Patrick White Aug 2, 2021
    It’s been nearly two years since there’s been a production on Mac Haydn’s stage and the opening moment of “Pippin” has their title character played by Kylan Ross enter the…
    Theater

    Stellar East Coast Premiere of New Mamet Play at Great Barrington Public Theatre

    Patrick White Aug 2, 2021
    Summer 2021 has brought forth many reasons for celebration and here’s another, David Mamet’s new short play “The Christopher Boys Communion” is receiving its East Coast…
    Theater

    “Laughing Wild” Touches Nerves in DTF’s Outdoor Return

    Patrick White Jul 31, 2021
    It is easy to see why Dina Janis chose “Laughing Wild” to open Dorset Theatre Festival’s first outdoor season at the Southern Vermont Arts Center starting with the title of…
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    All Hail Harriet Harris, First Lady of BSC’s “Eleanor”

    Patrick White Jul 30, 2021
    It is surprisingly rare that theater asserts its usefulness as it did for me Tuesday night with Barrington Stage’s production of Mark St. Germain’s “Eleanor” starring the…
    Theater

    Circle Theatre Players Present a Thrilling “Pipeline” with New Talent

    Patrick White Jul 26, 2021
    Circle Theatre Players in Averill Park are presenting an urgent look at young Black men caught in what the play “Pipeline” by Dominique Morisseau asserts is an all too…
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    Fort Salem Surprises with a Rare, Loving and Vital “Next to Normal”

    Patrick White Jul 24, 2021
    There is a family falling apart in a fabulous fashion on the Fort Salem Theatre these days. In “Next to Normal” by composer Tom Kitt and writer Brian Yorkey, the audience is…
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    Chester’s “The Niceties” is Essential Viewing This Summer

    Patrick White Jul 21, 2021
    There are some plays that are so trenchantly prescient, so eerily accurate and convincing they seem to have called forth changes in society, years after they were written and…
    Interviews

    Actor Bill Shein Plays God in Capital Region Theatre Debut

    Patrick White Jul 20, 2021
    I have been very lucky to keep busy with all the theater opportunities the Capital Region offers throughout the pandemic and I am very pleased to be directing "An Act of God"…
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    Playhouse Stage Celebrates a Return to the Park with “Ain’t Misbehavin'”

    Patrick White Jul 12, 2021
    ALBANY — It was nearly miraculous how Playhouse Stage was able to squeeze in a terrifically energetic performance of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” between raindrops on Friday night.…
    Theater

    Hysterical “Miz Martha” on Historical Site with Hudson Valley Shakespeare…

    Patrick White Jul 4, 2021
    GARRISON — Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has stepped up to the moment and answered our times with the frequently hilarious, challenging and important “The Most…
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    Ryan Palmer Thrillingly Lives up to the Title in “Fully Committed” at The Theater Barn

    Patrick White Jun 27, 2021
    NEW LEBANON — “Fully Committed” by Becky Mode is a bravura showcase for an actor to play over 30 parts while manning the reservation phone at an exclusive Manhattan…
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    “The Importance of Being Earnest” Dazzles with Verbal and Visual Brilliance at BTG

    Patrick White Jun 25, 2021
    “The Importance of Being Earnest” may be the funniest play in the English language and beyond Shakespeare there can be no more quotable playwright than Oscar Wilde but if…
    Theater

    “Chester Bailey” Lures You Back to The Theater with Stellar Production

    Patrick White Jun 24, 2021
    There are many points of entrance to the Boyd/Quinson Mainstage at Barrington Stage to take your seats for the first performance in the theater since the fall of 2019. The…
    Theater

    Chester Theatre Company Absorbs Your Attention with Engaging “Title and Deed”

    Patrick White Jun 21, 2021
    CHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS — It’s a quintessential theatrical set-up. A wanderer enters stage left and surveys his surroundings and who he’s talking to. He’s got a tale to tell…
    Theater

    REVIEW: Revived Fort Salem Theater Moves Strongly Forward with “Marvelous Wonderettes” Look Back

    Patrick White Jun 20, 2021
    SALEM — There is a party atmosphere as soon as you turn down East Broadway in Salem where women in pretty dresses are congregated in front of the columned theater which we…
    Theater

    Barrington Stage Scores with a Lovely, Loving Evening of Gershwin

    Patrick White Jun 18, 2021
    Barrington Stage Company has done it again, conjuring theatrical magic to turn a concert in a parking lot into a swinging, top-tier, cabaret of one’s dreams. Like last year’s…
    Theater

    Like My Birthday, Christmas Eve & A Calamity All Rolled Into One!

    Patrick White Jun 9, 2021
    Opening Nights have a mystical power in the world of theater. Participants have rituals they go through; favorite foods, lucky pieces of clothing, music that we have to…
    Theater

    Theatre is back and I’ve Got Goosebumps… “Death Tax” at the Albany Barn

    Patrick White Jun 5, 2021
    “’Death Tax!’ What an awful title! After 14 months of grief and isolation, who wants to see that? I just want to laugh and be entertained. Why would you want to do that your…
    Theater

    Playhouse Stage Welcomes You Back With The Perfectly Named “I Love You, You’re Perfect,…

    Patrick White May 1, 2021
    413 days.That’s how many days it’s been since I’ve been inside a Capital Region theater to see a show. The last one was “The Irish and How They Got That Way” at theREP…
    Theater

    SLOC Announces a Reimagined Season

    Patrick White Mar 26, 2021
    It’s been just over a year since the Schenectady Light Opera Company stage promised “Something familiar, Something peculiar, Something for everyone: A Comedy Tonight!” Of…
    Theater

    “Something Spectacular” is happening at theREP

    Patrick White Mar 24, 2021
    There was a ray of sunshine on this gray, drizzly, pandemic day on North Pearl Street this morning. There was talk of fairy tales, dreams come true and happily ever after at…
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    Best of 2020: Celebrating Greatness in Capital Region Theater

    Patrick White Jan 1, 2021
    The title of this article may strike you as a misnomer but there was great theater before the lockdown on March 12th and extraordinary measures were taken all year long by…
    Theater

    Berkshire Theatre Group Gives A Gift of “Holiday Memories”

    Patrick White Dec 1, 2020
    After their enormously successful and justly lauded miracle of a production, “Godspell” this summer, BTG is back with a gift of “Holiday Memories” to close out the year. It…
    Theater

    ConfettiFest 16 Opens Thursday On a Screen Near You

    Patrick White Nov 30, 2020
    Confetti Stage has been staging a one-act play festival at the Albany Masonic Lodge for many years and it is always a big, bright kick-off to the theater season involving…
    Theater

    In the Berkshires, “The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein”

    Patrick White Aug 25, 2020
    Rodgers & Hammerstein were referred to as the “comfort food” of popular musicals a couple of times during “The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein,” the meat…
    Theater

    “Godspell” Beseeches Urgently Under a Tent in Pittsfield

    Patrick White Aug 13, 2020
    “Godspell,” the 1971 Stephen Schwartz musical with book by Michael-John Tebelak using Christian parables to enlighten and entertain is inordinately popular with community,…
    Theater

    “Harry Clarke” Is the Mask That Brings Life to the Stage

    Patrick White Aug 10, 2020
    Your temperature is taken at the entrance to the tent, your seats are 6 feet apart from your neighbors and you must wear a mask throughout the performance. You are warned in…
    Theater

    Inclusive Zoom Auditions 8/3 & 8/4 For HMT’s Socially Distant “Cry It Out”

    Patrick White Aug 3, 2020
    Jessie is a corporate lawyer in a Manhattan firm. Lina is a community-college dropout and born-and-bred Long Islander. They don't seem to have anything in common but marooned…
    Arts

    Owen Smith Talks Cohoes Music Hall and Playhouse Stage

    Patrick White Jul 28, 2020
    There is much to miss this summer without theater, we live so close to the world-class organizations of Glimmerglass, Williamstown, Barrington Stage, and Powerhouse but…
    Theater

    The 518 Theater Kids Are All Grown Up and Giving Back

    Patrick White Jul 27, 2020
    The kids are alright. Dozens of area students who are caught in a performing limbo, some between high school and college and some starting out their careers but all are…
    Theater

    Josh Romeo Introduces “Buzz Off,” A Fanciful Play About a Band of Insects

    Patrick White Jul 7, 2020
    Join the insect band, Buzz Off, as they compete in a local upstate New York Battle of the Bands. The goal: win back the rights to their song after it was stolen by a…
    Theater

    Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY Leads Capital Region Theater Response With “8:46”

    Patrick White Jun 25, 2020
    Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY (BTTUNY) is honored to announce the collective group of Capital Region Theatrical organizations involved in "8:46," a theatrical response…
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    World Premiere of “Cell Play,” Written in Quarantine, Features Actors From Across the…

    Patrick White Jun 9, 2020
    There will be an online reading of Josh Romeo’s original show CELL PLAY. The performance of CELL PLAY will be presented for free via Facebook live on Thursday 6/11 at 8 pm…
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    Quarantine e-Theatre Engages a Diverse Community

    Patrick White May 10, 2020
    A great and annoying feature of life during lockdown has been our reliance and enjoyment of our electronic devices. Our world has become smaller and our teachers have been…
    Theater

    Creating Theater in the Time of Quarantine

    Patrick White Apr 26, 2020
    When the pandemic struck America, it forced us all inside and deprived us of many activities and contacts that we had grown accustomed to and maybe even taken for granted.…
    Theater

    The Play That Changed My Life, Part Two

    Patrick White Apr 19, 2020
    I am a firm believer that every night that you enter a theater you are putting yourself in a position to transform your life as with no other art form. At its best the…
    Special

    That Time Dr. Fauci Was a Character in an Obie Award Winning Play

    Patrick White Apr 5, 2020
    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force…
    Theater

    “Capital Drama Club” Reaches Out To High School Students Looking to Keep Theater Alive

    Patrick White Apr 3, 2020
    Where were you when the world came to a grinding halt and we all headed indoors? Imagine you’re in high school. You’re the lead in the school’s musical, “High School Musical”…
    Theater

    Reading “The True” in Anticipation of the Fall Theater Season

    Patrick White Mar 31, 2020
    “The True” by Sharr White is his imagined story of the 1977 Democratic Primary race for Mayor featuring historical figures Erastus Corning II and his longtime aide and…
    Special

    The Path To City Hall Was Child’s Play

    Patrick White Mar 28, 2020
    Author’s note: The pandemic has caused many dislocations and missed opportunities. The story below was based on an interview conducted 2/26/2020 so does not reflect the…
    Editorial

    An Actor Doing Nothing

    Patrick White Mar 27, 2020
    I took an acting workshop with Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill a number of years ago and one of the first things she did was went around the room and asked us all to think of a…
    Theater

    “The Pitch” Paints the Corners in World Premiere at Majestic Theatre in West Springfield

    Patrick White Mar 8, 2020
    The Majestic Theatre is producing a world premiere of Pioneer Valley newspaperman Stan Freeman’s first play “The Pitch” and there is much for the hometown crowd to cheer…
    Theater

    “All My Sons” Howls with a Renewed Fervor at SLCA

    Patrick White Mar 7, 2020
    Circle Theatre Players are doing a bang-up job on “All My Sons,” the Arthur Miller perennial which speaks with renewed urgency to an America that has seemed to have lost its…
    Theater

    SLCA and NoPiates Committee Team Up To Combat Drug Addiction in Rensselaer County

    Patrick White Mar 4, 2020
    “(In)Dependent” was created in April 2017 after months of primary and secondary research, consisting of 50 interviews of Northeastern Ohio doctors, nurses, paramedics,…
    Theater

    “The Glass Menagerie” Shines in a New Light at Brouwer House

    Patrick White Mar 1, 2020
    NorthEast Theatre Ensemble continues with its invaluable project of reviving modern classics by placing them in Capital Region historic sites and encouraging the setting and…
    Theater

    “The Mountaintop” Offers a View of Shared Purpose and Unity

    Patrick White Feb 29, 2020
    Confetti Stage has invited the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY and its founder and Artistic Director, Jean-Remy Monnay to choose any play to present at The Linda this…
    Theater

    Playhouse Stage Company’s “Lady Day” Flies High on the Wings of Song

    Patrick White Feb 28, 2020
    “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” with a book by Lainie Robinson has picked up quite a bit of acclaim on its own, if not nearly much as the legendary singer upon whom…
    Theater

    World Premiere of “Jerry Lee Lewis Versus Jerry Lee Lewis” by Playhouse Stage Company, What a…

    Patrick White Feb 23, 2020
    Playhouse Stage Company is taking an audacious gamble, presenting a World Premiere musical of a rock ’n’ roll legend written by an actor who played Jerry Lee Lewis in last…
    Theater

    “Crimes of the Heart” Works Its Cracked Charm in CTG’s Production

    Patrick White Feb 22, 2020
    The Magrath sisters of Hazelhurst, Mississippi are having a really bad day. Many years after Mama hung herself in the basement…with the family cat, the family is in crisis…
    Theater

    A Fresh Touring “Fiddler” Dances Thrillingly on the Edge at Proctors

    Patrick White Feb 20, 2020
    There is always a time for “Fiddler on the Roof” which has not gone out of fashion since its record breaking 1964 debut on Broadway when it was the first musical to run for…
    Theater

    5 Shows This Weekend and Not a Single Stage Set in Sight

    Patrick White Feb 17, 2020
    I had another jam-packed weekend of theater in the Capital Region but much of it wasn’t spent in traditional theatres, most of the shows weren't memorized, the production…
    Theater

    “Anne Frank” Continues to Break Our Hearts 75 Years after Her Death at Theatre Institute at Sage

    Patrick White Feb 13, 2020
    “The Diary of Anne Frank” is one of the most famous books in the world. Anne had received a red and white checked autograph book for her thirteenth birthday in June of 1942.…
    Theater

    “The Chalk Garden” at The Ghent Playhouse is a Satisfying Story of a Woman with a Past

    Patrick White Feb 11, 2020
    The Ghent Playhouse is presenting “The Chalk Garden,” a play by Enid Bagnold which had many Tony nominations when it bowed on Broadway in 1955 and a starry movie adaptation…
    Theater

    Confetti Stage’s “Eurydice” Calls Out From Beyond To Be Remembered

    Patrick White Feb 10, 2020
    Sarah Ruhl’s very popular 2003 play “Eurydice” is currently working its charms on the fourth floor of the Albany Masonic Lodge. It is a favorite of colleges across the…
    Theater

    “American Soldiers” at Albany Civic Theater Asks, What Are We Fighting For?

    Patrick White Feb 3, 2020
    It’s a late night in the Hicksville, Long Island house of Carlo Coletti (Joseph Bruton) as he pads around the kitchen sneaking shots of Maker’s Mark and glimpses out the…
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