A Really Big Shrew

Cole Porter mixes music with Shakespeare for Merry-Go-Round’s season opener Kiss Me, Kate

Perhaps the greatest curtain raiser in Broadway history as well as a show-biz anthem, “Another Op’nin’, Another Show” also kicks off the summer season at Auburn’s Merry-Go

Senior Moments

Two aging widows are linked in unusual ways for Kitchen Theatre’s romantic musical comedy Waiting for Spring

In the Syracuse New Times beat, no original playwright commands more attention than artistic director Rachel Lampert of Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company. Writers of interactive comedies might

Generation Gapped

Family members experience war and sacrifice in the unusual time-spanning musical John and Jen

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