TROY, N.Y. By a happy coincidence, two area theater companies are producing world premieres of plays. Both are available this week. A happier coincidence is that both are enjoyable experiences. In downtown Troy, Troy Foundry Theater is offering “Hard Candy and Misdemeanors” Wednesdays through Saturdays until Oct 7. It’s a work about young African-Americans […]
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2022, thus far, has been an interesting year for local theater. The titles of many of the plays that have been offered can be described as off-beat, and for the most part, relatively unknown to the average person.
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Bill Ziskin, longtime Schenectady HS theater director, remembered; ‘Brought magic out of everyone’ | The Daily Gazette
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Bill Ziskin, the former longtime director of Schenectady High School’s Blue Roses Theater Company, treated his students like professionals – professionals he trusted with controversial and challenging material.
“It was my first foray into the theater at all, and he just always treated us as equals, treated us as professionals,” said Erin Long, a 2002 Schenectady High School graduate now working as a TV producer and writer in Los Angeles.
Long recalled how Ziskin allowed students to experiment in all the different aspects of production – from acting to writing to set and light design – and challenged them to always strive to be better.