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Tuesday, May 15,2012
STAGE

Heavens Below

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

By James MacKillop
At a time when several community theater companies are wringing their hands in search of new venues, Steve and Marguerite Beebe’s Encore Productions...
Tuesday, May 15,2012
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PEANUTS to You

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

By James MacKillop
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...
Wednesday, May 9,2012
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The Long Goodbye

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

By James MacKillop
The most indelible image from actress Kathy Bates’ career comes from the 1990 movie Misery, where she’s the crazed fan and James Caan is the bedridden victim. In Morris Panych’s Vigil,
Wednesday, May 9,2012
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For Whom the Belle Tolls

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

By James MacKillop
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
Wednesday, May 2,2012
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Shakes It Up

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

By James MacKillop
Shakespeare’s sunniest comedy and one of his two most reliable laugh-getters, As You Like It never suffers from neglect.
Wednesday, April 25,2012
STAGE

Syracuse Stage's The Brothers Size

By James MacKillop
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
Wednesday, April 25,2012
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David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole

By James MacKillop
Parents recover from an emotional loss in the drama Rabbit Hole
Wednesday, April 18,2012
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Wild About Cherry

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

By James MacKillop
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
Wednesday, April 18,2012
STAGE

Traveling Titters

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

By James MacKillop
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
Wednesday, April 11,2012
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True Colors

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

By James MacKillop
  Poverty, taken on the whole, might well be a better generator of art than has been affluence.
 
 
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