Steamer No. 10 Theatre | Kids Out and About Albany

Steamer No. 10 Theatre

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500 Western Ave
Albany , NY , 12203
Phone: (518) 438-5503
42° 39' 57.1716" N, 73° 47' 26.3616" W
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Executive Artistic Director Ric Chesser
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Professional theatre creating shows for children and families, and touring to schools and theatres throughout the Northeast. We want to get children, adults, teachers, grandparents...everyone...excited about theatre and the performing arts. Everyone should attend live performances with a burning desire to see more. Today, Steamer No.10 Theatre, Inc. is a non-profit, tax-exempt professional theatre creating shows for children and families, and touring to schools and theatres throughout the Northeast. We produce five shows each year, reaching between 10,000 and 15,000 people, with an emphasis on fairy tales, children’s literature and local history.

We write our shows with an eye to involving our entire audience of children and adults. The shows are crafted so that an actor can leave the stage as one character, quickly switch costumes, and return as a new character. In this way three or four actors can populate a show with 20 characters. And we sometimes make it even more complicated. In our version of Rumpelsiltskin, three actors play eleven roles and we double cast the title role to create a manically magic madman.

Arts: Performance, Drama