Help us mount a dynamite summer season at Cohoes Music Hall, and a Very Special Fully-Free Production for Kids & Families at Albany’s Park PlayhousE!

BE PART OF our Annual Setting the Stage Appeal!

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Friends,

This is a summer like no other for Playhouse Stage Company — and your support has never mattered more.

You may have heard: the City of Albany cut our funding contract after just one year of reinstatement, and corporate sponsorship for the arts continues to decline across the region. These are real challenges, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. But we're responding the way this organization always has — by adapting, by protecting our mission, and by showing up for our community.

This summer, we're presenting four productions across two venues. At Cohoes Music Hall, our year-round home in one of the oldest operating theaters in the country, we're staging Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Footloose: The Musical, and 13: The Musical. And at Park Playhouse in Albany's Washington Park, we're doing something we've never done before: making every single seat completely free for a professionally produced children's musical, Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play!, a joyful, family-focused festival event in late August designed to introduce a new generation of kids to live theater.

Every performer, musician, and crew member on our stages is a paid professional. Every student in our education programs receives instruction from working artists. And every family in Washington Park this August will experience world-class theater without spending a dime. That's who we are — and your generosity is what makes it possible.

Your gift to our Annual Setting the Stage Appeal helps us:

  • Keep Park Playhouse admission entirely free for all audiences

  • Produce professional musical theater year-round at Cohoes Music Hall

  • Provide young performers with life-changing opportunities through Playhouse Stage Academy

  • Pay the professional performers, teachers, musicians, and technicians who make our work happen

  • Bridge a critical funding gap as we build the next chapter of this 38-year-old organization

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today.

With gratitude,
The Playhouse Team

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