First is the high-powered, hard-working Doctor Lane (Carol Halstead), who utters the aforementioned “I didn’t go to medical school” line and finds herself in conflict with her more domestic sister Virginia (Linda Marie Larson).

The action begins when the Finn character, Gordon Schwinn (Marcelo Pereira), a talented but sarcastic composer, is facing the usual kind of writer’s block. He’s stuck meeting a deadline writing what he feels is inferior material for a tyrannical, exasperating children’s entertainer, Mr.

Buoyed by continuing successes, he started his own outfit, Not Another Theater Company, 18 months ago, doing smaller-scale works as dinner theater items at the Locker Room’s Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, 528 Hiawatha Blvd. Taking on a co-producer, Bill Brod, publisher of The New Times.

Lobel (1933-1987), a prolific children’s author, published four Frog and Toad books, beginning in 1970. They’re “easy readers,” often assigned in the first and second grades.

(Currently Active) Rosemary Palladino Leone. Other nominees: Maureen Harrington, Sharee Lemos, Anthony Salatino, Ed Sayles, Dan Tursi..

Although several presenters cited the detailed instructions Brod’s invitation had included, many began to improvise gags on the contrasts most visible between the worlds of actors, singers and directors on one hand and engineers, lawyers and accountants on the other.

Two and four. Four of Syracuse Stage’s productions for the 2011-2012 season will appear in the usual venue, the 499-seat Archbold Theater at 820 E. Genesee St. Two others, the season opener featuring a new adaptation of Henry James’ literary ghost story The Turn of the Screw.

Marnie Elbies (there’s a joke buried in that name), the author of nine bestselling gothic murder mysteries, lives in a high-rise apartment on Manhattan’s 28th Street.

The much-anticipated movie adaptation of Donna Woolfolk Cross’ book Pope Joan comes to Syracuse this weekend

The Tricky Part, at Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre, skillfully recalls a traumatized childhood with humor and grace