BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Closing out Glow Lyric Theatre’s 8th Summer Festival Season is Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and this production is a triumph on all levels. Stage Director Jenna Tamisiea has transported the action in this rarely produced...
This is a show America needs now more than ever! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Jenna Tamisea and Christian Elser have an uncanny sense of timing. Sure, the DACA and DREAMer dilemma has been simmering for years, but how could...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC John Fagan has tamed many a shrew in his nearly 20 years as Producing Director of the Upstate Shakespeare Festival. That’s why, for the first time in seven years, Fagan handed over the metaphoric whip...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Invigorated by weeks of 10-hour days of rehearsals and countless other tasks beholden to an Artistic Director’s role, Jenna Tamisiea Elser is exhausted, but gloriously liberated by her art. As co-founder of Glow Lyric Theatre,...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Warehouse Theatre’s Upstate Shakespeare Festival under the tutelage of Producing Director John Fagan spins a valiant and thoroughly engrossing and entertaining “The Winter’s Tale” for its 24th summer season opener in Falls Park on...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Warehouse Theatre’s new MainStage production of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is set amidst the backdrop of the film industry, but this comedy about two pairs of Sicilian lovers is no mafia epic...
