Center for the Performing Arts

Empire State Plaza • Albany, New York

Events

Kathy Griffin is a two-time Emmy and Grammy Award winning comedian, television star, best-selling author and advocate known for her biting satire and fearless comedy. The legendary performer holds the Guinness Book of World Records for writing and starring in an unprecedented 20 televised stand-up specials. Kathy is perhaps best known for her hit Bravo series, Kathy Griffin: My […]

Featuring the Jesse Cook Quintet A global artist in every sense of the word, Jesse Cook redefines music’s power to connect people across cultures and continents. Over the last three decades, the Paris-born, Toronto-raised master of the Spanish guitar has built a devoted following for his spellbinding rumba flamenco, routinely selling out performance halls from […]

Proceeds from When Legends Meet benefit St. Catherine’s Center for Children, a leading Capital Region provider of human services supporting vulnerable children, adults, and families. What city has bragging rights to the title, Birthplace of Rock & Roll? Lubbock, Texas might seem an unlikely place, but if you visited Lubbock’s Fair Park Coliseum in 1955, you might have witnessed […]

Robby Hoffman is an Emmy-winning writer, Emmy-nominated actor, and comedian whose work spans stand-up, television, and podcasting. In 2025, she was named one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” and her debut Netflix stand-up special, Robby Hoffman: WAKE UP, directed by John Mulaney premiered globally. Upon announcement of their collaboration, Mulaney boasted, “No one has owned […]

Robby Hoffman is an Emmy-winning writer, Emmy-nominated actor, and comedian whose work spans stand-up, television, and podcasting. In 2025, she was named one of Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch” and her debut Netflix stand-up special, Robby Hoffman: WAKE UP, directed by John Mulaney premiered globally. Upon announcement of their collaboration, Mulaney boasted, “No one has owned […]