2023-2024 Season
“White Rabbit, Red Rabbit” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” by Nassim Soleimanpour, directed by Rachel Bratager. Running March 23-25 at the Albany Masonic Temple.
White Rabbit Red Rabbit is not like any other play. Each night, a different actor performs it for the first and only time. No rehearsals. No Director. No do over. The play is a cold reading. Each actor cast will be given a performance.
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“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Dale Wasserman, directed by Siobhan Shea. Running May 10-19 at the Shaker Heritage Site. Free preview May 9.
The stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s celebrated 1962 novel explores the brutality of life in a mental institution with humor, candor, and unforgettable characters. The band of misfits – Harding, Martini, Cheswick, Billy Bibbit, and Scanlon, still live in Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of the still live in this stage adaptation of the classic counterculture fable. The silent giant, Chief Bromden, watches as the band twitches and cowers under the icy sway of Nurse Ratched until a savior in a leather jacket stomps into the ward. RP McMurphy, a self confessed psychopathic mad dog does battle with Nurse Ratched. Misrule and free will struggle against order and conformity in a tragicomic fight to the finish.
Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl
Confetti Stage is excited to announce auditions for “Stage Kiss” by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Sean T. Baldwin, assisted by Marissa Lounello.
Art and life imitate one another, and the line between the two occasionally grows thin. What happens when a married actress finds herself cast opposite an ex boyfriend as romantic leads in a long forgotten, badly written melodrama? Staged intimacy reignites the spark between them, and she suddenly finds herself torn between her husband and her great lost love. “Stage Kiss” is a comic love letter to theatre people and the strange things we do for our art.
Confetti Stage is excited to announce the cast of “Stage Kiss” by Sarah Ruhl
SHE: Edda Roemelt
HE: Vincent Lounello
Director: Lindsey Dodd
Husband: Zach Middleton
Laurie: Kaelyn Marshall
Kevin: Jay Pascual
Angela: Ro Dell’Acqua
Heresy
Confetti Stage brings to the stage the full length version of a show which saw its first production as part of Confetti Stage’s 4th Annual Short Play Festival in the fall of 2008. Heresy, written by Clifton Park’s own Marty Egan is a comical look into the superstitions and traditions of Community Theater.
It’s opening night for the cast and crew of “A Christmas Carol” at this small Upstate New York Community Theater. Nerves are unsteady as everyone arrives at the theater. Charlie, in his first leading role, fights the opening night jitters by continuously running his lines. All seems “normal,” until first time actor, Jack, whose day job is as a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, utters the name of the Scottish Play, thus bringing the “Macbeth curse” down upon the show. Jack’s disregard for the tradition of “undoing” the curse, only adds to the tension of the evening. Near blizzard conditions, backstage gossip, an unfulfilled love affair between the leads, a broken furnace, and faulty wiring all threaten to close the show before it even opens. In the end, the troupe vows that the show will go on.
Confetti Stage is excited to announce the cast of “Heresy” by Marty Egan!
Debbie: Rebeca Ash
George: Brandon Page
Jack: Zachary Middleton
Marv: Lee Lattimer
Sarah: Marissa Lounello
Charlie: Tyler Cardona
Josie: Kristen C. Likas
Directed by Cory Haines, assisted by John Nickles.
Heresy is directed by Cory Haines, assisted by John Nickles.
Confetti Fest XIX
Confetti Stage is excited to announce the line-up for this year’s Confetti Fest, our annual festival of locally written one act plays:
“The Irish Play” by William Daisak
Brendan, an Irish playwright, is excited that his play will be opening in New York, and meets up with the director. But he soon finds that the director’s vision of the play is very different than Brendan’s sophisticated modern Irish drama. Instead, it is slated for step dancing, heavy drinking, brawls, and maybe even an appearance by Celtic Women. Plus, it might be set in Scotland, but at this point, who cares?
“Christmas Newsletter” by Peter Marino
Ralph Smith is assigned the task of writing the family holiday newsletter this year. The temptation to spill his many secrets in an authentic but brutal Christmas message may overpower him.
“Last Stop” by Vincent James and Sean T. Baldwin
3 newly departed souls arrive in Heaven where they meet Lilith, Lucifer, and God, and learn that death was not the end of their journey.
“The Other Paris” by Matt Reichel
When their sister unexpectedly dies, Audrey and Sophie are tasked with fulfilling her dying wish to be thrown from the top of the Eiffel Tower. The only problem: their sister never specified which one.