Ric Chesser

Every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder.  It’s up to the audience to decide who actually did it! 

Each of the heirs of tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and motive to do away with him. 

Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will.  His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants. 

Every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder. It’s up to the audience to decide who actually did it!

Each of the heirs of tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and motive to do away with him.

Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will. His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants.

Every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder. It’s up to the audience to decide who actually did it!

Each of the heirs of tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and motive to do away with him.

Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will. His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants.

Cathy's Classics
The Ladykillers
(1955) Dark Comedy, Crime, Color, 91 min.
Sunday, November, 16 at 7:pm
Admission free, $5 donation suggested.
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they're classical musicians. Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner, Frankie Howerd, Katie Johnson

Every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder. It’s up to the audience to decide who actually did it!

Each of the heirs of tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and motive to do away with him.

Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will. His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants.

Every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder. It’s up to the audience to decide who actually did it!

Each of the heirs of tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and motive to do away with him.

Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will. His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants.

Every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity, and motive to commit the unseen murder. It’s up to the audience to decide who actually did it!

Each of the heirs of tyrannical billionaire Simon Starkweather has the means and motive to do away with him.

Starkweather gathers his family and employees to announce the contents of his will. His lawyer, Lois van Zandt, reveals he has bequeathed vast fortunes to his befuddled niece Fiona, her playboy son Jordan, his great-niece Paula (a Southern belle) and his grandson Simon III, as well as to his many servants.

Theater Voices Auditions - Time Stands Still
By: Donald Margulies
Directed by: Eleah Jayne Peal
Auditions
Nov. 30/Dec. 2 - 6:pm to 8:pm
Staged Reading Feb. 6-8
Further Info:  518-438-5503
www.theatervoices.org
Actors will read from sides, available at auditions. Please bring information about schedule conflicts. If you wish to be considered but cannot make either audition night, or have other questions, please contact director Eleah Jayne Peal.
Rehearsals:
Rehearsals (8-9 total) will begin late December, incorporating a break between Jan. 3-9, 2026, and then continuing until tech week, Feb. 2-5. Attendance at tech rehearsals is required.
Performances:
Friday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Feb. 7 at 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, Feb. 8 at 2:30 pm

Theater Voices Auditions - Time Stands Still
By: Donald Margulies
Directed by: Eleah Jayne Peal
Auditions
Dec. 4 - 6:pm to 8:pm
Staged Reading Feb. 6-8
Further Info:  518-438-5503
www.theatervoices.org
Actors will read from sides, available at auditions. Please bring information about schedule conflicts. If you wish to be considered but cannot make either audition night, or have other questions, please contact director Eleah Jayne Peal.
Rehearsals:
Rehearsals (8-9 total) will begin late December, incorporating a break between Jan. 3-9, 2026, and then continuing until tech week, Feb. 2-5. Attendance at tech rehearsals is required.
Performances:
Friday, Feb. 6 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, Feb. 7 at 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, Feb. 8 at 2:30 pm

The Holly and the Ivy
(1952) Drama, B&W, 80 min.
Sunday, December 14 at 7:pm
Admission free, $5 donation suggested
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, surfaces at a Christmas family gathering.
Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton

Marty
(1955) Drama, Romance, B&W, 90 min.
Sunday, December, 21 at 7:pm
Admission free, $5 donation suggested
A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Ester Minciotti

Songs to Amuse
presents
Noël and Cole: A Marvelous Party with Coward and Porter
Nobody captured the exuberant spirit of the’20s and ‘30s better than Cole Porter and Noël
Coward, whose songs became synonymous with wit and elegance. They became a tonic during
the Great Depression, and have continued to add sparkle to the repertory of performers unafraid
to indulge in such delights.
Among those performers are Byron Nilsson and Malcolm Kogut, who will be ringing in 2026
with a program of Porter and Coward songs during their ninth New Year’s Eve show at Albany’s
Steamer No. 10 Theatre. Nilsson and Kogut, who style themselves as “Songs to Amuse,” have
long been proponents of neglected but compelling categories of song, tending towards well-
crafted and often-comic numbers. “We present songs that you’re unlikely to know,” says
Nilsson, “so you don’t know how they’re supposed to sound.”