Katherine is wearing a bright green suit. She's sitting on the floor, legs extended front and arms crossed, in front of pink and green fabric.

Former theater kid, current arts journalist and forever storyteller.

I specialize in features, critical essays and profiles focused on theater, film, television and pop culture. Right now I'm the arts & culture features staff writer for the Times Union in upstate New York.

Art is seriously playful - and so am I.

KATHERINE
KIESSLING

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My current culture obsessions:

Screlting The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Microdosing childhood nostalgia via the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake for the Nintendo Switch
Perelman Performing Arts Center's production of Cats that is putting the ballroom into the Jellicle Ball
Icing my bruised ego on challenging Connections days with Vulture's Cinematrix