Patricia Buckley News

Franklin Stage Company will present a concert featuring Vicki Kristina Barcelona Band, the 3-woman, multi-instrumentalist group, from July 21-July 24 at Chapel Hall in Franklin, NY.

Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County’s only admission-free professional theater, will present Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, adapted by New York’s Fiasco Theater, July 1–17 at Chapel Hall, in Franklin, NY.

The Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County's renowned classical summer theater, announces their 26th season, from July 1st weekend through August 21. “We're so excited to be able to bring a full season of art and performance back to our Chapel Hall performance space” said Patricia Buckley, Co-Artistic Director of the theater. “We've got a stellar season that we can't wait to bring to the Western Catskills.” 

The Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County's renowned professional summer theater, has been awarded a Support for Artists Grant for the commission of a new play with a working title of Wakeman and Toliver, written by Kyle Bass. Mr. Bass is the author of Possessing Harriet, which FSC produced during their 2019 summer season.

Franklin Stage Company in Franklin, NY announced today that the company has received grant awards totalling $69,500 from the New York State Council on the Arts for 3 grants for the 2022 fiscal year. Following New York State's $105 million investment in the arts for FY2022, NYSCA has awarded more than $80 million since June 2021.

Franklin Stage Company will close its 2021 season with New York actor Evan Zes' solo show Rent Control August 27–29 outdoors on the lawn at Chapel Hall in Franklin, NY. An alternate rain space will be used inside Chapel Hall, if needed.

Franklin Stage Company will present a concert staging of a new opera entitled Libba: Here This Day, the story of blues and folk icon Libba Cotten, August 20–22 outdoors on the lawn at Chapel Hall in Franklin, NY. Alternate rain space will be inside Chapel Hall.

Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County's only admission-free professional theater, will present Lucas Hnath's comedy A Doll's House, Part 2, July 23–August 15th on the lawn outside FSC's historic theater, Chapel Hall, in Franklin, NY.

Franklin Stage Company will present Doktor Kaboom: Random Acts of Science! July 16-18 at Chapel Hall in Franklin, NY.  Billed as a science comedy, Doktor Kaboom uses inquiry, curiosity and live on-stage experiments to empower, inspire and entertain young and old alike. 

For their 25th-season performance opener, the Franklin Stage Company presents a concert featuring Ghanaian master drummer Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng and Cameroonian singer Gino Sitson whose music blends jazz, gospel, blues, and traditional African polyrhythms and melodies in exciting, innovative ways.

Franklin Stage Company opens their 2021 summer season with an art exhibit entitled Franklin Stage Company and the Evolution of Chapel Hall. An opening party to celebrate the exhibit, which will be permanently installed in the lobby and theater at Chapel Hall, will be held from 3-5 pm on Saturday, July 3, and is open to the public and free of charge.

The Franklin Stage Company has announced the lineup of their 25th season, from July 4th weekend through August 29. All performances will be held on the lawn outside the theater. The season will open July 3rd with an opening reception for an art exhibit titled Franklin Stage Company and the Evolution of Chapel Hall.

Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County's renowned classical summer theater, has announced alternative digital content in lieu of an in-person season, which was cancelled due to the pandemic.

Franklin Stage Company, the Western Catskills only professional theater, has announced they will not hold their 24th season of shows at Chapel Hall in 2020, due to concerns about COVID-19.

Franklin Stage Company will present a return engagement of master singer and showman Julian Fleisher over the Labor Day weekend

Franklin Stage Company hosts an art opening presenting the sculptures of Richard Friedberg titled a?oedrawing exercisesa?? on Sunday, August 11 from 2a?"4 pm with show through September 1 in Chapel Hall, Franklin, NY.

Franklin Stage Company, Delaware County's only admission-free professional theater, will present John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson's Billy Bishop Goes to War, August 9tha?" 25th, at FSC's historic theater, Chapel Hall, in Franklin, NY.

Franklin Stage Company will present local puppet company Catskill Puppet Theater to perform their original puppet show The Willow Girl August 2-4 at Chapel Hall in Franklin, NY.

Franklin Stage Company presents their season opener, Horsetale, created by Hit the Lights!, an innovative New York City-based theater company, and presents art show The Feel of the Artist's Hand with works by Jody Isaacson.

Anita Stewart's staging of Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been a beloved fixture on Portland's Christmas scene for quite some time now, and, indeed, despite changing casts, much of its appeal resides in its familiarity to audiences. On the December 23rd matinee, the venerable production got a fresh new uplift in the performance of Dustin Tucker as Scrooge.