Posts By James MacKillop
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3.4KArtsDramatic Fireworks Highlight Syracuse Stage’s Raisin D’etre
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is one of the best-known and most often-studied American plays of the last 60 years,...
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3.4KArtsLaughs And Lunacy While Lost In America
We often try to get our grip on the deeper nature of the United States by reading compellingly written lives of leading...
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4.1KArtsQuasimodo Rings The Bell In Posh Production
With 52 performers on the floorboards plus 13 players in the orchestra, the musical stage version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
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3.5KArtsSeeing Isn’t Believing In Dazzling Bipolar Rock Musical
Although Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Next to Normal is not usually spoken of next to box office smashes like Wicked, it...
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3.8KArtsFrantic Farce Flies Friendly Skies
Ever since Central New York Playhouse moved into Shoppingtown Mall five years ago, it has launched every January with a madcap farce....
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3.5KArtsStealing Scenes On Local Floorboards
It’s called moving up to the pros. In an unprecedented ascension, actor, director, playwright and costumer Garrett Heater, a multiple Syracuse New...
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2.4KArtsDialing In Musical Memories For Retro Radio Show
It’s a snowy night in New York City, Dec. 21, 1942, as the live action radio hour of the Manhattan Mutual Variety...
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2.6KArtsFive Decades On The Marriage-Go-Round
Fifty years of marriage. Nineteen songs. Two characters (with frequent costume changes). And one set: a four-poster bed. The Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt...
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2.9KArtsAffirming Life For Kitchen’s Innovative Comedy
The words “includes audience participation” can provoke the same wariness in a playgoer that “some assembly required” do in a gift-giving parent....
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3.3KArtsTricky Dick Dodges A Media-Made Inquisition
A television show. A stage play. A movie. It’s not usual for a property to be all three of these things, but...
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4.5KArtsThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Although this play is intended to baffle as well as astonish and delight...
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4.0KArtsThe annual SALT Awards ceremony stepped lively with songs, dances and laughter
James MacKillop and Bill DeLapp Credit director Sara Caliva and stage manager Cynthia Reid for tightening the pace of the 13th annual...
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3.8KArtsFarragut North and Frame 312
Farragut North and Frame 312. Just in time for election week, Rarely Done Productions brings us two plays from director CJ Young...
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2.7KArtsSurreal Scare Package At The Redhouse
M. Jones’ 70 Scenes of Halloween is set in a shabby suburban living room on Halloween night with a steady stream of...
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4.8KArtsRecalling The Eras of AIDS And Witch Hunts
"The Crucible" and "As Is" recall political and human struggles.
