Word Plays: Storytelling at Proctors
Our Sixth Season in The Fenimore Gallery: 2012-2013
Sundays at 2:00 pm   $16   Free Parking

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If you're one of those people who lingers in your car long after reaching a destination just to hear the end of Garrison Keillor's "The News from Lake Wobegon" or Ira Glass on "This American Life," then Word Plays may be for you.

Twenty performers, 17 from Story Circle and 3 from Children at the Well (youth storytellers for peace and understanding), will be telling during this season. At each Word Play, eight performers tell rarely heard contemporary and traditional stories about being human. You will discover that Word Plays is a shared experience between the audience and the performer, combining the intensity of a solo performer with the intimacy of a face-to-face conversation.

Each show has its own theme where each story told relates to that theme.

Click here to watch many of our performers tell stories.

Enjoy the arts in The Fenimore Gallery as the exhibitions and the stories change over the course of the year. Wine, beer and soda are available at the cash bar before the show starts and during intermission. After the show, you can meet the performers. The Gallery is on the second floor above the Box Office, accessible by stairs or elevator.

$2 of each ticket is donated to the Schenectady Inner City Ministry Summer Lunch program where they feed 850 children each day. Click here for more info.

Come enjoy the stories and the Proctors experience.

Shows start at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $16 per person per show. To purchase tickets, go to Proctors web site, or visit the Box Office at Proctors, or call them at (518) 346-6204.

Proctors now has free parking in the Metroplex Parking Garage, 220 Broadway, near the bakery Villa Italia. Then just walk across the street and enter the Proctors Arcade via the rear entrance. Don't worry about any snow or ice as you enter the Arcade -- the sidewalk automatically melts precipitation.

Word Plays was inspired by 2nd Story, produced by Serendipity Theatre in Chicago.

Our first season's shows, our second season's shows, our third season's shows, our fourth season's shows and our fifth season's shows are listed here.