Heavens Below

Encore Productions brings the kitchen cutups of Church Basement Ladies to an inspired location

PEANUTS to You

Not Another Theater Company’s new take on Charlie Brown offers fast-moving fun

Director-conductor Colin Keating made a smashing local debut with his handling of the beguiling pocket musical A Year With Frog and Toad last spring...

The Long Goodbye

A slow death equals big laughs in the Redhouse’s pitch-black comedy Vigil

For Whom the Belle Tolls

Kate Huddleston’s powerhouse turn as Amanda Wingfield dominates Appleseed’s take on Tennessee Williams’ memoir The Glass Menagerie

The years have been kind to actress Kate Huddleston, one of the youngest people ever to get a Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Live Theater (SALT) Lifetime Achievement Award. As the decades unfold

Shakes It Up

Casting innovations and fast pacing spark SU Drama’s revival of the Bard’s As You Like It

Shakespeare’s sunniest comedy and one of his two most reliable laugh-getters, As You Like It never suffers from neglect.

Syracuse Stage's The Brothers Size

In an unusually useful program note, Syracuse Stage producing artistic director Tim Bond tells us why the final production, The Brothers Size, breaks rank with the rest of the season’s offerings

David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole

Wild About Cherry

Coming-of-age boinks are revealed in Rarely Done’s My First Time

When you were in college you remember that friends passed around copies of a hot new novel, and by the time the copy got to you all the exciting parts had dog-eared pages

Traveling Titters

Le Moyne College’s student actors go Around the World in 80 Days in search of laughs

In only his second year at Le Moyne College, professor-director Matt Chiorini has established a record of working his student actors to the limit

True Colors

Fraternal frictions within a black family create drama and humor in Broke-ology