2024-2025 season opens with RHINOCEROS!
Thank you to the hundreds of Russell Sage students, faculty, community members, and Capital Region theatre goers who attended our season opener, Rhinoceros.
2024-2025 Season
Rhinoceros
October 2 – 6, 2024
James L. Meader Little Theatre
Written by: Eugene Ionesco
Translated by: Derek Prouse
Adapted by: Frank Galati
Directed by: David Baecker
The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition. A small town is besieged as one roaring citizen becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens transform, the trampling and noise is overwhelming, until one sane citizen remains, unwilling to change. The 1959 post-war classic in a new adaptation by Frank Galati.
Into the Woods Jr.
October 25 – November 3, 2024
James L Meader Little Theatre
Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim
Book by: James Lapine
Directed by: Eddie Knight
Be careful what you wish for, as Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s cockeyed fairytale comes to life in this adaptation of their groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning musical. Into the Woods JR. features all of your favorite characters — Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack (and his beanstalk) and the Witch — in this lyrically rich retelling of classic Brothers Grimm fables.
Recommended for all ages.
Dates/Times:
- Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7pm
- Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 2pm
- Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 7pm
- Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 2pm
- Friday, November 1, 2024 at 7pm
- Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 2pm
- Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 7pm
- Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 2pm
The Lightning Thief
The Percy Jackson Musical
December 4-15, 2024
Schacht Fine Arts Center Theater
Adapted from the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Book by: Joe Tracz
Music & Lyrics by: Rob Rokicki
Directed by: Michael Musial
The Greek gods are real, and they’re ruining Percy Jackson’s life. Twelve-year-old Percy is on the most dangerous quest of his life. As a son of Poseidon, Percy has newly discovered powers he can’t control, monsters on his trail, and he is on an epic quest to find Zeus’s lightning bolt and prevent a war between the gods. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original; weapon of mass destruction – Zeus’ master bolt. Normal is a myth when you’re a demigod.
Recommended for all ages.
Dates/Times:
- Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 10 a.m.
- Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 10 a.m.
- Friday, December 6, 2024 at 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 2 p.m.
- Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.
- Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 10 a.m.
- Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 10 a.m.
- Friday, December 13, 2024 at 10 am & 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 2 p.m.
Tuck Everlasting
February 5 – February 16, 2025
Schacht Fine Arts Center Theater
Based on the novel by Natalie Babbitt
Adapted by: Mark Frattaroli
Directed by: David Baecker
10-year-old Winnie Foster, trapped by rules imposed by her strict family, runs away and discovers the humble Tucks, who accidentally stumbled upon a spring that gave them eternal life. Winnie promises to keep their long secret until a sinister stranger arrives intending to steal the immortal water for himself. Ultimately Winnie must choose whether or not to drink from the magic spring and join the Tucks in their everlasting adventure – or continue to live a natural, ordinary life. Based on the award-winning modern classic by Natalie Babbitt.
Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Dates/Times:
- Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 10 a.m.
- Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 10 a.m.
- Friday, February 7, 2024 at 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, February 8, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, February 9, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, February 11, 2024 at 10 a.m.
- Wednesday, February 12, 2024 at 10 a.m.
- Thursday, February 13, 2024 at 10 a.m.
- Saturday, February 14, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, February 15, 2024 at 2 p.m.
Robin of Sherwood:
A Musical
May 14 – 23, 2025
Schacht Fine Arts Center Theater
Music and lyrics by: Michael Musial
Book and lyrics by: Matthew McElligott and Larry Tuxbury
Directed by: Michael Musical
Think you know the true story of Robin Hood? Think again! Prepare for a thrilling new take on the classic tail, from the creators of Backbeard: The Musical, and Benjamin Franklinstein: The Musical. Promising humor, heart, and a forest full of secrets, this new musical production will have arrows flying in a bold new direction.
Recommended for all ages.
Dates/Times:
- Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 10 a.m.
- Thursday, May 15, 2025 at 10 a.m.
- Friday, May 16, 2025 at 10 a.m. & 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 2 p.m.
- Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 10 a.m.
- Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 10 a.m.
- Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 10 a.m.
- Friday, May 23, 2025 at 10 a.m.
