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Powerhouse Theater - "Margaret and Craig" - Mario Cantone

By Sarah LaDuke

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-975609.mp3

Poughkeepsie, NY – Mario Cantone plays Canadian Female-Impersonator, Craig Russell, in a new play, Margaret and Craig. The play, written by David Solomon and directed by Sheryl Kaller, is running (as a staged reading) at New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's Powerhouse Theater this weekend.

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.