If you saw the disappointing production of “Anything Goes” at the Williamstown Theatre Festival a few seasons ago, run, don’t walk, to Schenectady Light Opera’s production to see how it ought to be done.
Playwright Marcelle Maurette plays fast and loose with the story of one Anna Anderson, a factory worker and brief resident in an asylum who claimed to be Anastasia, but he (and his English adapter Guy Bolton) knows that both fact and fiction are at the heart of this story.
Home Made Theater’s production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” is a charmer. From its opening number to its rousing finale, “Brotherhood of man,” it succeeds in capturing its audience’s appreciation.
Ben Turpin, Red Skelton, and John Belushi: Jack Fallon is channeling all three in this fresh adaptation of Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days” by Mark Brown, now in a wacky production at Curtain Call Theatre.
“Seeing is believing.” And its opposite: “I couldn’t believe my eyes.” Illusionists depend on an audience’s ability to be in both states at once, illusionists like The Spencers, a husband-wife duo who performed Sunday at Proctors.
Choreographer Carolyn Dorfman has found an artistic soul mate in folk singer/songwriter Bente Kahan. Together, they are creating works that are charged — emotionally and intellectually. And it’s impossible not to be indifferent to their subject, the Holocaust.
If you like tap, you should fly to 58 Remsen St. in Cohoes and see the punishment that young performers' feet get in C-R Productions' musical comedy "42nd Street."