ITheatre Saratoga / The Creative Place

ITheatre Saratoga / The Creative Place iTHEATRE SARATOGA / THE CREATIVE PLACE INTERNATIONAL provides cultural resources to young people NOW, when we need them most!

To accomplish its goal, CPI will engage in activities such as workshops, seminars and presentations by and for young and other emerging artists, thus providing a laboratory for new and established works in the performing and associated arts.

FREE Halloween pop-up staged play reading of J. Scala's new play THE CRABMAN COMETH! Join us at Springs Street Gallery i...
10/06/2026

FREE Halloween pop-up staged play reading of J. Scala's new play THE CRABMAN COMETH! Join us at Springs Street Gallery in Saratoga Springs on Fri. Oct 30 and Sat. Oct 31 at 7pm! Email [email protected] for reservations.

Thanks to everyone that came out to support our youth workshop students and our concert reading performers! Thanks to ou...
09/04/2026

Thanks to everyone that came out to support our youth workshop students and our concert reading performers! Thanks to our EVERY OTHER THURSDAY authors Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha for sharing their insights and allowing us to share their beautiful work! Thanks to our stellar cast: Maria Sablich, Kelsey Dodd, Johnny Martinez, Karey Trimmings, Christopher Buettner, and Anna Belden! Thanks to our music director Ben Quinones, our choreographer Anny DeGange Holgate. Thanks to our youth workshop support team of John McGuire & Anny Degange. Thanks to our youth workshop students: Clementine Getman, Claire O’Grady, Elizabeth Vaccarielli, Josie Snyder,
Ian Ackley, Gabriella Ackley, and Britt DeLuke.
Special thanks to our Artistic Director and Youth Workshop leader Mary Jane Hansen for her vision and work in creating a uniquely original and wonderful evening of theatre focused on immigration for our young people and our community!
Thanks to Saratoga Arts for hosting us!

Packed house last night for a great evening of unique and original theatre! Last chance to join us at Saratoga Arts (Sat...
08/29/2026

Packed house last night for a great evening of unique and original theatre! Last chance to join us at Saratoga Arts (Saturday, August 29) at 2pm today. Our youth workshop presents the opening act followed by the new stellar musical one act EVERY OTHER THURSDAY. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Anna Belden who plays the r...
08/23/2026

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Anna Belden who plays the role of Anni Sepalla/Mari in our concert reading. Anna is grateful to be back home in the 518! THEATRE: Hamlet, The Tempest, Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hip to Hip Shakespeare Company), Waiting for the Six Train (Downtown Urban Arts Festival @ Theatre Row) TV: Philly Homicide (NBC), For the Common Good (PBS). BFA: Marymount Manhattan. Thank you to my parents, family, friends, and team at Brilliant Talent! IG:
Join us for this unique event at Saratoga Arts on Friday, August 28 at 6:30pm and Saturday, August 29 at 2pm. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Christopher Buettner who pl...
08/22/2026

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Christopher Buettner who plays the role of Abel Seppala/Vaino in our concert reading. If you see him today, wish him a Happy Birthday!
Christopher Buettner (he/him) is very excited to be working with iTheatre Saratoga! A rising senior musical theatre major at SUNY Fredonia, he has performed extensively all over the state in plays, musicals, concerts, and theme parks, such as in The Taming of the Shrew (Biondello) with Shakespeare in Delaware Park, The Laramie Project (Aaron McKinney, Jedidah Shultz, etc.) with Fort Salem Theater, 1776 (Courier) with Home Made Theater, and Oedipus the King (Creon) with the Fredonia Performing Arts Collaborative, and with iTheatre Saratoga, Hollowville: An American Ghost Story (Riffenburgh), amongst many others. Along with performing, he is a trained intimacy choreographer and stage combatant in a variety of weapons. He would like to thank his friends family, Jake (his cat), and his girlfriend, Jocelyn, for always supporting his dreams. www.chrisbuettner.com

Join us for this unique event at Saratoga Arts on Friday, August 28 at 6:30pm and Saturday, August 29 at 2pm. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Karey Hall Trimmings who pl...
08/21/2026

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Karey Hall Trimmings who plays the role of Mrs. Mawson in our concert reading. Karey Hall Trimmings is a music teacher in the Saratoga Springs schools, the music director at St. Clement's Church, voice teacher, founder/director of The SNACpack Program which feeds @280 students weekly living with food insecurity, wife to John, and Mom to four children. She has a MM in Music Education and Voice from The Eastman School of Music and studied at The Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music in London. Her passion for musical theater has allowed her to direct students with Saratoga Children's Theatre for 16 years and guide her voice students for over 20 years. Karey is very excited to be a part of iTheatre Saratoga's concert reading and performing alongside two of her former voice students, Maria and Anna. Thank you to Will Severin and Mary Hansen for this opportunity!

Join us for this unique event at Saratoga Arts on Friday, August 28 at 6:30pm and Saturday, August 29 at 2pm. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Kelsey Dodd who plays the r...
08/20/2026

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Kelsey Dodd who plays the role of Zhoolie Mawson/Lempi in our concert reading. Kelsey Dodd is a performer from Saratoga Springs, New York. Named Best Entertainer in the Capital Region by Capital Region Living magazine (2024, 2025) and The Saratogian (2025), she has established herself both onstage and in the recording studio.

Favorite theater credits include Regina (Mean Girls), Morticia (The Addams Family), the Narrator (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), and Sharpay (High School Musical). Her debut EP, Forever Evergreen, reached #1 on Upcoming100’s Emerging 300 chart and has garnered more than 140,000 streams. She has also performed the national anthem for organizations including the Baltimore Orioles (MLB), Buffalo Bills (NFL), and Iowa State vs. LSU NCAA Women’s Basketball.

Kelsey is a recent alumna of Barrington Stage Company’s Musical Theater Conservatory (2026), where she trained with industry professionals, and is a rising sophomore BFA Musical Theater student at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. This fall, she looks forward to joining the ensemble of Boston Conservatory’s mainstage production of She Loves Me.

Kelsey is thrilled to be making her professional debut as Zhoolie/Lempi in Every Other Thursday. She would like to thank her family for their support and looks forward to taking the stage with such an incredible cast!

Join us for this unique event at Saratoga Arts on Friday, August 28 at 6:30pm and Saturday, August 29 at 2pm. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Johnny Martinez who plays t...
08/20/2026

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet Johnny Martinez who plays the role of Mr. Mawson in our concert reading.

Johnny Martinez, a native of Brooklyn New York, has been living in Saratoga Springs since 2005. He started his career in ballet and modern dance, then began working in musical theater, performing in national and European tours of “West Side Story” and “Damn Yankees”. He also appeared in regional productions of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, "Fiddler on the Roof” and “Hamlet”.
Johnny has worked with Homemade Theater, Opera Saratoga, Capital Rep, the Fort Salem Theater, Local Actor's Guild, the Schenectady Children's Theater, SLOC, Park Playhouse, the Adirondack Children's Theater, The Saratoga City Ballet, Fort Salem Theater, the Radius Playfest, Nacre Dance Company and iTheater Saratoga as performer, director and choreographer. With iTheatre Saratoga he played Hercule Poirot in “Poirots Investigate” and “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.” He has also been featured in numerous iTheatre Saratoga productions and staged readings including “The Baker Street Adventuress” and “It Can’t Happen Here.” Just this past spring he directed and choreographed Fiddler on the Roof for HMT
With his wife Diane Lachtrupp he co-directs Tango Fusion Dance Company, teaching ballroom/Latin and partner dance to adults and to children in the public school system. He also is the Director/Choreographer for the Lake Avenue Elementary Drama Club. Through his collaboration with Diane, Johnny has taught and performed in Argentina (the 5th Annual Tango Congress); San Sebastian, Spain; Rome, Italy, The Dance Flurry; Moonlight in Vermont, Brandon Vermont; Stepping Out Dance Studios, NYC; and Tango Fusion’s Ballroom Dance Show with Proctor’s Collaborative Studio, which he co-hosted and co-created.
Recently Johnny was featured in the premiere of “South, A Nautical Musical” in the role of Ucello at the Bridge Street Theater in Catskill NY and won the Capital Region Dancing With The Stars fund raiser. With his partner Liana Bonavita the raised over $14,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand (battling pediatric cancer) and placed #1 in the dance section.

Join us for this unique event at Saratoga Arts on Friday, August 28 at 6:30pm and Saturday, August 29 at 2pm. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet actor Maria Sablich who pla...
08/19/2026

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet actor Maria Sablich who plays the role of Helmi Seppala in our concert reading.
Maria Sablich is a Baltimore-born, Saratoga Springs-raised artist based in NYC. She recently graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, having trained at The New Studio on Broadway. Recent credits include RAGTIME (Little Girl/Mother u/s), TITANIC (Kate Mullins), and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Luciana). Endless gratitude to her family, friends, and mentors for their unwavering support. All glory to God! www.mariasablich.com
Join us for this unique event at Saratoga Arts on Friday, August 28 at 6:30pm and Saturday, August 29 at 2pm. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet choreographer Anny DeGange ...
08/17/2026

Each day we will be introducing you to another member of the EVERY OTHER THURSDAY team. Meet choreographer Anny DeGange Holgate!
Anny began her career as a dancer with ‘The Martha Graham Company’. She was an original cast member of 5 Broadway shows, including EVITA and LES MISERABLES. Regionally she sang leading roles in many musicals and operas and performed in Europe doing opera concerts and roles at varied music festivals. At the New York State Theatre Institute, she performed a variety of roles, as well as choreographing and directing, and locally with both Opera Saratoga and Lake George Theater. She is a founding member of iTheatre Saratoga, performing yearly in a range of roles, including Maria Callas in Master Class and Hercule Poirot in POIROTS INVESTIGATE. She also stage manages for the company and teaches at Saratoga Springs Youth Ballet.
Join us for this unique event at Saratoga Arts on Friday, August 28 at 6:30pm and Saturday, August 29 at 2pm. This new work is based on a short story by Edna Ferber (Saratoga Trunk) with book, music and lyrics by Sheilah Rae and Debra Barsha. Tickets are only $10 and available now at: https://itheatresaratoga.ticketspice.com/every-other-thursday-a-concert-reading

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Saratoga Springs, NY
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Monday 10:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 3:30pm
Thursday 10:30am - 3:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 3:30pm

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