Creative & Performing Arts

Past performances & campus venues

Recent Productions at Russell Sage College

Image from Russell Sage's 2006 production of Anton in Show Business

• The Turn of the Screw, 10/07
• Quilters, 9/07

• Lady in the Dark, 4/07
• Boston Marriage, 2/07
• Anton in Show Business, 10/06
• Nunsense, 9/06
• Nine, 4/06
• Proof, 2/06
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 10/05
• You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, 4/05
• 3, 3/05
• Stop Kiss, 2/05
• Nickel and Dimed, 10/04
• The Threepenny Opera, 4/04
• How I Learned to Drive, 2/04

      (click here for performances prior to 2004)

Schacht Fine Arts Center

Sage's Schacht Fine Arts Center houses a 1,000 seat auditorium, exhibition gallery, classrooms and faculty offices, as well as a music wing with practice studios. Schacht is home to the New York State Theatre Institute's (NYSTI) annual season of productions. Many Sage students benefit from professional internships with NYSTI.

James L. Meader Little Theater

The James L. Meader Little Theater--named for the second president of Russell Sage College--serves as a platform for student theater productions, as well as a workshop and laboratory for theatre therapy students.

Bush Memorial Hall & Goldberg Auditorium

Sage’s Bush Memorial Hall and its interior Goldberg Auditorium is the site of many of the happenings on Sage’s lively events calendar, including musical performances, poetry readings, and lectures. This historic building (featuring two Tiffany stained glass windows, signed in the lower right hand

corner) was once Troy’s First Presbyterian Church.

Past Productions at Russell Sage College

• A Child's Christmas in Wales,12/03

• Noises Off, October 2003
• Nymph Errant, April 2003
• A Child's Christmas in Wales, December 2002
• Twelfth Night, October 2002
• A…My Name is Alice, March 2002
• Inspecting Carol, December 2001
• A Christmas Carol, December 2001
• Spoon River Anthology, October 2001
• Women in Love, April 2001

• A Christmas Carol, December 2000
• The Odd Couple (Female Version), November 2000
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the 

     Forum,  April 2000

• A Christmas Carol, December 1999
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, October 1999
• Candide, April 1999
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses, February 1999
• Hot l Baltimore, November 1998
• Children of Eden, April 1998
• Our Town October, 1997
• The Secret Garden, April 1997
• Steel Magnolias, November 1996
• Nunsense II, March 1996
• A Piece of My Heart, October 1995
• Into the Woods, April 1995
• A Christmas Carol, December 1994
• Bedroom Farce,November 1994
• Sweeney Todd (The Musical), April 1994
• A Christmas Carol, December 1993
• Close Encounters (Four one-act plays), October 1993
• Anything Goes, April 1993
• A Christmas Carol, December 1992
• The Colored Museum, November 1992
• Nunsense, September 1992
• Nunsense, April 1992
• The House of Bernarda Alba, November 1991
• Something's Afoot, April 1991
• Crimes of the Heart, November, 1990
• The Beggar's Opera, April 1990
• The Glass Menagerie, January 1990
• The Robber Bridegroom, April 1989
• Under Milkwood, November 1988
• Sweet Charity, April 1988
• The Art of Dining, November 1987
• Godspell, April 1987
• Vanities, November 1986
• Comet Capers, April 1986
• The Importance of Being Earnest, November 1985
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 

  April 1985

• Sweeney Todd (The Melodrama) Oct./Nov. 1984
• Annie Summer 1984
• Pal Joey April 1984
• The Tempest January 1984
• Two Gentlemen of Verona Oct./Nov. 1983
• Two Gentlemen of Verona April 1983
• Comanche Café/Domino Courts January 1983
• Hay Fever Oct./Nov.1982
• Chicago April 1982
• Hedda Gabler Oct./Nov. 1981
• Grease April 1981
• The Bourgeois Gentlemen January 1981
• Engaged Oct./Nov. 1980
• Cabaret April 1980
• Eccentricities of a Nightingale January 1980
• Electra Oct./Nov 1979
• Oliver Summer 1979
• Pippin April 1979
• A Doll's House Oct./Nov. 1978
• Fiddler on the Roof April 1978
• Four Dreams (Four one-act plays) January 1978
• The Children's Hour Oct./Nov. 1977
• Bye, Bye Birdie April 1977
• Butterflies Are Free January 1977
• Blood Wedding Oct./Nov. 1976
• The Autumn Garden April 1976
• Fantasy in Six (Six one-act plays) January 1976
• The American Dream/The Autograph Hound Oct./Nov. 1975