About Us

Taconic Stage is a registered 501 (c) 3 Not-for-profit

                            Taconic Stage Company’s artistic director is a familiar local personality, Carl Ritchie. After three seasons as artistic director of Copake Theatre and a stint as town councilman, Ritchie took a year off to write shows and has returned with this new, non-profit theatre venture.

                           Ritchie specializes in small cast musicals and comedies, and his one-woman musicals, “Nine Months” and “Nine Months 2” (with music by Stephen Woodjetts) have been performed in more than a hundred  theatres in Canada and the United States, and have been translated and performed in French. “Family Values”, which originally ran for four months off Broadway, has also been translated into French and had hugely successful runs in Quebec. Other Quebec plays include, "La Cousine Germaine" and "Coco Chatel". He was recently represented Off Broadway writing additional lyrics for "Fascinating Aida" at 59E59.

                        Taconic Stage performs at the Lighthouse Restaurant and Marina on beautiful Copake Lake and at St. John in the Wilderness, a gothic revival church in Copake Falls, NY.

                        See the "Reviews" section to see shows from previous seasons - and thanks for stopping by!

TACONIC STAGE COMPANY

240 Island Drive

Craryville, NY 12521

518 325-1234

TaconicStage@aol.com

performing at:

Lighthouse Marina

Copake Lake, NY 12521

and

St John's in the Wilderness

Copake Falls, NY 12517