Posts Tagged ‘Hudson Mainstage Theatre’

ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT BEYOND

Cute, fun, silly, and too slight to be of any major consequence, Tom Chiodo and Joe Nedder’s Adventures in the Great Beyond serves primarily as a showcase for Nedder’s catchy melodies and the World Premiere musical’s highly talented cast, in particular a charismatic 20something fivesome who reveal Grade-A vocal chops as the devotees of a quirky desert-dwelling New Age guru named Krishamarti.
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DOG SEES GOD: CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE BLOCKHEAD


A teenage Charlie Brown confronts life’s mysteries and challenges in Bert V. Royal’s, hilarious, thought-provoking, ultimately transformative Dog Sees God: Confessions Of A Teenage Blockhead, now getting a fabulous 19th-anniversary revival at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre.
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A FAMILY BUSINESS


All hell breaks loose when a dating couple and two sets of parents get together for the first time in A Family Business, Matt Chait’s thoroughly entertaining follow-up to Bearings, which won the playwright a 2022-2023 Best Of The Year Scenie.
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3: BLACK GIRL BLUES


TV star Danielle Moné Truitt returns to her stage roots with 3: Black Girl Blues, an alternately hilarious and devastating one-woman show about a trio of grade school best friends whose lives follow drastically different paths from their teen years on.
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AFTERGLOW


Can an open marriage survive if one husband embarks on a sexual relationship with one of the couple’s occasional bed guests? This is the provocative question posed by playwright S. Asher Gelman in Afterglow, a surefire seat-filler thanks to its extended softcore sex scenes early on but a West Coast Premiere whose real dramatic fire begins once the clothes have come back on.
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SALVAGE


The pre-pandemic hit Salvage is back, a couple of terrific cast additions adding even more grit and depth to its already compelling mix of haunted memories and haunting country-flavored songs.
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DOPE QUEENS

Dope Queens, Grafton Doyle’s seamy dissection of the go-nowhere lives of three drug-addicted, fresh-out-of-prison LGBTQ street walkers (two of them gender non-conforming POCs and one a GWM) is not just a major downer, it’s an overwrought, all-over-the-place two-acter that overstays its welcome by at least half an hour.
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SHOOTING STAR – A REVEALING NEW MUSICAL

If there’s anything gay men adore, it’s musical theater and porn, just two of the reasons why Shooting Star – A Revealing New Musical, a Hudson Mainstage World Premiere, is the gay porn musical event of this or any other year.

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