Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: Martha Banta, who co-founded the Adirondack Theatre Festival in 1993 with now-husband David Turner, takes the ATF reins again this year. Here’s some of what she told The Chronicle about the coming season, in advance of the January 12 gala that raised $80,000 plus.
“The diehards come because …
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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Adirondack Theatre Festival’s 2026 season, announced at the sold-out Mamma Mia! Monday gala Jan. 12, will include a one-man show by Queensbury grad, now New York City actor, Trevor Strader about his true experience when he was trapped in a bus baggage compartment.
The season will also feature the Tony-winning Broadway musical Come From Away and the return of free children’s theater in Glens …
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The Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls has signed a memorandum of understanding with Proctors Collaborative, based in Schenectady.
The plan is a three-year agreement “to expand shared services and explore how the two will partner more significantly over the long term.”
The announcement was made via email from Proctors Collaborative PR person Jessica Sims.
“The goal is to imagine and deliver ever-better professional theater with ever-more stable means and …
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By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
As a student at Queensbury High School, Class of 1998, Nick Baroudi wasn’t a theater kid, mostly, he says, because he didn’t have the singing chops for shows that, as at many high schools, focused on musicals.
But he has since found his way as a professional actor on stage and screen. This week he makes his debut with the Adirondack Theatre Festival, playing …
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Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: The King’s Wife, it has legs. A musical-in-progress about Henry the Eighth’s first two wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, The King’s Wife was powerfully sung and acted in a concert version by the Adirondack Theatre Festival last month.
Set with contemporary costumes that yet indicated historical context, and played on a stage, nearly bare except for the band, and a line of …
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