by Steve Barnes | May 17, 2022
COLONIE — The next season at Curtain Call Theatre will feature seven productions from this coming fall through August 2023, with comedy predominating among romance, drama and inspirational stories.
Tickets are now on sale for the season, the sixth since Curtain Call relocated in fall 2017 to a former church adjacent to Ashfield Senior Apartments in Latham. Subscriptions cost $150 for all shows and $75 for four productions; single tickets cost $30 each. Visit the company’s website, curtaincalltheatre.com, or call 518-877-7529 for information or to purchase.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, with one Saturday matinee on the second weekend of each run. The schedule:
- “Tiny Houses” by Chelsea Marcantel, Sept. 15 to Oct. 9. A comedy with lovable, idiosyncratic characters dealing with adapting to a very small abode.
- “All the Days” by Sharyn Rothstein, Nov. 3 to 27. A heartfelt comedy about the scars of childhood and finding love as a grown-up.
- “Misery” by William Goldman, Jan. 12 to 29. An adaptation of Stephen King’s thriller about a famous novelist held hostage by a fan.
- “Fireflies” by Matthew Barber, March 2 to 19. A love story about romance late in life, adapted from the novel “Eleanor and Abel” by Annette Sanford.
- “Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help” by Katie Forgette, April 13 to May 7, 2023. A comedy about an Irish-Catholic family coping with disasters in 1973.
- “Grand Horizons” by Bess Wohl, June 1 to 25, 2023. A comedy about martial malaise that looks at the unpredictable and enduring nature of love.
- “Popcorn Falls” by James Hindman, July 20 to Aug. 13, 2023. A town facing bankruptcy tries to save itself by opening a theater.
