British playwright Caryl Churchill comes to the stage with fiercely held positions, but she makes her case through surprise and indirection. She seeks to disorient you so you will look anew at w
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Wednesday, February 20,2013
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Twisted Sisterhood
SU Drama’s Top Girls merges historical feminist figures with a scathing attack on 1980s Thatcherite England
Wednesday, February 13,2013
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STAGE
Life of Pie
Syracuse Opera digs into the quirky cannibal horror-musical triumph Sweeney Todd
Wednesday, February 13,2013
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STAGE
Baum Shelter
Community-theater treasure Jodie Baum boldly takes on Blanche Du Bois for A Streetcar Named Desire
We know going in why most community theater troupes are reluctant to stage A Streetcar Named...
Wednesday, February 6,2013
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STAGE
Do the Locomotion
Two Trains Running continues the annual run of August Wilson productions at Syracuse Stage
Some of the puzzles in Two Trains Running are
immediately open to us now. As this is the seventh Syracuse Stage
production from August Wilson’s...
Wednesday, January 30,2013
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Southern Discomfort
Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company hosts the area premiere of the unusual Civil War drama The Whipping Man
Among the many provocative questions Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man asks
is, “Were there enough Jewish Negroes at the end of the Confederacy to
form a minyan?” That is, a minimum
Wednesday, January 23,2013
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Good Grief
The Redhouse offers the edgy dark comedies Baltimore Waltz and W;t in repertory
We thought we knew what dark comedy is. The audience is
supposed to squirm, feel a bit uneasy and then smile with teeth
clenched. Redhouse director Stephen Svoboda wants you to know that even
in
Wednesday, January 16,2013
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STAGE
Cheatin’ Hearts
Adultery is usually a risky if exhilarating business,
especially for persons in elected office. Eliot Spitzer and John Edwards
could fill you in on all the details. Across the pond the sexual
mi
Wednesday, January 2,2013
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STAGE
Seasons of Showboating
Seasons of Showboating
Top among the 2012 highlights in local theater included:
Local actor makes it big, No. 1. Kentucky-born
Steve Kazee was languishing...
Wednesday, December 12,2012
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Classic Reillustrated
The 1939 Kaufman-Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner merits a spirited revival from Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands is a young director who is
never shackled by history. A year ago last summer for Appleseed
Productions he clasped onto Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace, arguably
the mo
Wednesday, December 5,2012
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STAGE
Irving Avenue
The classic songbook of Irving Berlin dominates Syracuse Stage’s lavish production of White Christmas
Everyone refers to the current show at Syracuse Stage as White Christmas, but the title on the playbill puts the composer’s name first: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. This
is not merely
