An adult son’s secret increases a family’s dysfunction in Rarely Done’s Beautiful Child

Prepare for nearly three hours of Russian realism with SU Drama’s production of Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths

These Shining Lives chronicles the real-life tragedies of women workers who painted watch dials with radium

Placing Othello in sailor uniforms helps color this revival, buoyed by Tony Brown’s see-worthy lead performance

The romantic comedy I Love You Because takes its cues from a Jane Austen classic

Syracuse Stage’s Caroline, or Change offers a unique musical perspective on 1960s-era civil rights

The spirit of poet Ralph Waldo Emerson inhabits a blue-collar joe in the comedy Call Me Waldo

Two aging women find themselves during an India trip in the Redhouse’s A Perfect Ganesh

Four couples straddle three boudoirs in Not Another Theater Company’s chatty Bedroom Farce

We’re not like the rest of the country, thankfully. The National Endowment for the Arts reports that attendance at live theater edged down nearly 1 percent in the last year, but that’s not what happened here. Syracuse Stage reported a strong spring and two hits in the fall.