Posts By James MacKillop
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3.9KArtsReview | Merry musical ‘Elf’ brings tinsel tidings to Syracuse Stage
The first thing the annual holiday show at Syracuse Stage has to do is knock your eyes out. Thus, for Elf: The...
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8.4KArtsManlius Art Cinema journeys to 100 years of movie memories
It’s 17 feet wide, and a precise 100 feet from the front door to the back wall. That makes for 1,700 square...
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3.7KArtsReview | Evolving settings elevate little-known stage work ‘Nevermore’
Julian Wiles produced Nevermore in 1994. Professional companies ignored it, but director Christopher Lupia successfully grabs another little-known paths.
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6.6KArtsWinners! Laughs, tears, more highlight 2018 SALT Awards ceremony
Brighter, faster, classier but still as upbeat and raucous as ever. This year’s Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Live Theater (SALT) Awards...
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3.9KArtsBroadway’s Hunter Foster Named Redhouse artistic director
Foster was nominated for his first Tony Award in 2003 for his role in "Little Shop of Horrors." He's also been in...
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3.8KArtsReview | Taking a look at salvation through SU Drama’s ‘Next Fall’
Truth, salvation, the afterlife and facing the prospect of death are just a few of the themes explored in "Next Fall," on...
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2.7KArtsReview | Gags still hit mark in dark ‘Boys in the Band’ revival
Dark comedy "The Boys in the Band," performed by Rarely Done Productions, explores the old prevalences of guilt and self-accusation in the...
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3.5KArtsReview | BTG’s ‘Dracula’ reinvents the familiar in creepy classic
The Baldwinsville Theatre Guild's showing of "Dracula" runs until Nov. 3.
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6.8KArtsReview | You don’t need to get D&D to get ‘She Kills Monsters’
Follow Agnes down a new-age rabbit hole as she falls into a world of Dungeons & Dragons, trying to reconnect with the...
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2.6KArtsReview | The past comes home to haunt in ‘The Piano Teacher’
Psychological horror stage show, The Piano Teacher, is running through Sunday, Nov. 4 at Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre Company.
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3.2KArtsWorld premiere drama ‘Possessing Harriet’ looks at slavery in CNY
In the program notes for Syracuse Stage’s world premiere of Possessing Harriet (running through Nov. 4), playwright Kyle Bass admits that if...
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3.1KArtsReview | Moving music breaches rough surface of CNY Playhouse’s ‘Spider Woman’
With SU Drama staging its unusual take on Into the Woods, another unconventional show running through Oct. 27 on the Central New York...
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4.2KArtsReview| SU Drama’s modern ‘Into the Woods’ remix shows ‘riotous inventiveness’
Director Lowenstein blows up the typical lyrical and whimsical show right before your eyes, creating an inventive and audacious new take.
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3.3KArts‘Steel Magnolias’ opens Redhouse Arts Center stage season
Steel Magnolias, implying Southern women who are both delicate and indestructible, takes us back to “Tears through laughter” country.
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2.9KArtsMGR’s ‘Beehive’ stars provide through-the-roof energy
The 1960s never died. That accounts for the complete absence of nostalgia and instead supplies the through-the-roof energy of Beehive.
