PLAYHOUSE STAGE CO. IS PROUD TO HOST A CAST PARTY TO BENEFIT…

AT THE HISTORIC COHOES MUSIC HALL
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 @ 7:00 PM

A Note on CAST PARTY PERFORMANCES…

Dear fellow Capital Region Theatre Artists,

The principle goal of the Cast Party for CRFT is to raise funds for the first annual CAPITAL REGION FESTIVAL OF THEATRE, which has been announced for June, 2025. We urge you to click here to buy tickets, and hope you’ll encourage others to do the same!

However, beyond the goal of raising funds for next year’s inaugural festival, The Cast Party event is also an opportunity to celebrate in the company of fellow local theatre makers, and to offer a taste of the depth and breadth of theatrical offerings in New York’s Capital Region. While a video presentation will offer a recorded taste of our various professional, community, and scholastic theatre offerings, a selection of live performances will also be part of the evenings program. Our team at Playhouse Stage Company is curating the performance selections and order, to ensure a high-quality, smoothly flowing, engaging program for the evening. To be sure, with so many companies and artists represented in our region, it is obviously not possible for each and every group or individual to perform, or we’d be at the theatre for hours upon hours! Next year’s festival will offer a much wider weekend of opportunities for all of us to showcase our work. The Cast Party performances are simply meant to be a taste of our region’s offerings, and we aim to make it as representative as possible of the broad range of theatrical experiences available locally.

Below, you will find a submission form through which you can suggest or submit a performance idea for The Cast Party. If you or your group wish to perform, please fill out and submit the form below no later than Friday, September 27. We will do our best to create a performance lineup with as many, and as diverse, a lineup of performances as possible, while, again, being mindful of not creating an incredibly long or repetitive event. We will contact all those who submit a performance by October 4 to confirm plans for the evening. Note: if you wish to perform at the Cast Party, you must be available for a rehearsal at Cohoes Music Hall on Wednesday, October 23 from 6:30PM to 9:30PM. Also note that performances should require only simple lighting, sound, or projection elements. Minimal stage furniture will be made available to support performances as needed, and a piano accompanist will be available.

If you have any questions about the form below, or about the event, please do not hesitate to email me at owen@playhousestage.org, and I’ll do my best to answer your question as quickly as possible.

Thank you for supporting the Capital Region Festival of Theatre!

See you soon,

Owen Smith
Playhouse Stage Company