Bob Goepfert

It would be a logical guess that the toughest problem for Richard Maltby, Jr, when he was creating “Ain’t Misbehavin’”was deciding which of the over 400 songs Fats Waller wrote should be included in the musical revue.

“The Chinese Lady” is a fascinating 90-minutes of theater being offered at Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls through Sunday.

This is a cheerleading piece. Because Tuesday is the first official day of summer and I’m a lover of the arts, I get especially excited about summer.

It’s a difficult task to make a person understand the racial divide that has affected the United States since its founding without beating the obvious to death.

I once had a holistic doctor try to explain to me his view of traditional medicine. He drew a large circle. Inside that circle he drew a very small circle. Inside the small circle he placed a dot.

Officially summer starts with the summer solstice - which occurs at the end of June. In the world of entertainment and recreation, summer starts on Memorial Day.

The calendar says Memorial Day is tomorrow .Usually that means theater companies who produce fall through spring, have completed their seasons. Too, at this time of year, summer companies are usually gearing up for openings around the end of June.

Lately, there has been a lot of attention paid to those talented people in theater who work in many backstage capacities. The contributions of understudies, standbys, designers and even stagehands are finally being recognized.

“My Fair Lady”, which runs at Proctors in Schenectady through Sunday is a production that perfectly represents theater of 2022.

“The Approach,” which opened the 2022 season of Shakespeare & Company is one of the most cryptic plays I can recall seeing. Nothing is direct about it. To understand it you must either look below the surface or between the lines.