All posts tagged "Arts"
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6.3KArtsReview | Director Jason Alexander adds dancers to 2-character musical drama
Jason Alexander was in the original cast of Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound (1987) and won a Tony Award for singing and dancing...
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5.5KArtsReview | Cavalcade of jukebox memories is unleashed during ‘The All Night Strut!’
Hard times foster lyricism. The 1930s and 1940s were unquestionably tough decades: unemployment, Jim Crow laws, the Dust Bowl, followed by bloodshed...
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6.3KArtsStage Struck: Jason Alexander checks into Syracuse Stage to guide musical
If you haven’t noticed lately that actor-director Jason Alexander is in our neck of the woods, then you haven’t been paying attention....
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5.1KArtPhoto-heavy Everson exhibit incorporates multiple styles and themes
The Everson Museum of Art’s exhibit Time Returns: A Continuous Now has an ambitious agenda. Curators Judy Natal and D.J. Hellerman strive...
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5.8KArtsReview | ‘Drunk with Hope’ probes stories behind women alcoholics
The National Institute of Health reported not long ago that although men still consume more alcohol than women, the differences in abuse between the genders are...
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7.5KArtMorse Code: Small-business owner Maggie Morse takes different avenues to pursue artistic ambitions
Millennials. Defined as the generation born between 1981 and 1996, they are often described as lazy, entitled, impatient and lacking loyalty by...
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6.5KArtsReview | Ben Sills as comical character heightens fun of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Central New York Playhouse’s inventive production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (through Saturday, May 18) takes William Shakespeare’s fantasy comedy in new...
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7.0KArtsSchlock Therapy: Drive-in movie maven brings redneck cinema tour to Syracuse
Joe Bob Briggs, the longtime champion of outlaw cinema, will visit Central New York this weekend as his “How Rednecks Saved Hollywood”...
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7.2KArtsReview | Social media, teen athletes, sexual violation provide vivid components for provocative drama
Rape, forced intercourse, was first a moral question: a sin. Subsequently it became a legal question: a crime. More recently it has...
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6.1KArtsReview | The Wizard of Ha’s: Magical school gets rambunctiously parodied
The local premiere of Matt Cox’s off-Broadway smash Puffs marks a generational departure for executive director Dan Tursi’s 14-year-old Rarely Done Productions....
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6.4KArtsNewest CD from Syracuse’s Mandate of Heaven proves darkly complex
For 20 years, Mandate of Heaven has been sliding in and out of the local music scene, planting a succession of material...
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6.0KArtsCatch dance fever with The Billionaires at History of Syracuse Rock ‘n’ Roll series
It’s been four long months since there has been a music show presented by WSEN’s The Dinosaur, with its FM frequencies 94.1,...
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5.2KArtFayetteville church readies for final arts festival celebration
St. David’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville has hosted “Celebration of the Arts" for nearly 50 years. But that will soon come to...
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5.2KArtsReview | Turkey feast triggers family frictions in Syracuse Stage’s ‘The Humans’
Thanksgiving dinner has long since ceased to be the holiday painted by Norman Rockwell. Given the changes in most families, through education...
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5.5KArtsReview | Female pilot operates military drones in offbeat, one-person drama
The one-actor drama about cyberwarfare, Grounded, has been a magnet for female talent. Superstar director Julie Taymor helmed the Public Theater opening...
