The Players’ Club
Just Add SALT
Diversity dominates the nominations for this year’s Syracuse Area Live Theater awards
Apocalypse Wow
They Talk the Lines
2009 IN REVIEW: Stage
Harem-Raising Tales
Jory Duty
Coo Coo Ca-Choo
Little Big Show
Five On Your Side
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Wednesday, April 10,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Just Say “Argggh!”
Le Moyne College offers a shipshape mounting of the classic musical The Pirates of Penzance
Still not showing its age at 134, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance means reliable fun no matter how it is presented. Mix in a director of infinite jest, like Le Moyne College’s Matt Chiorini, and you can’t measure just how high the hilarity will jump.
Wednesday, April 10,2013
STAGE
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French Dressing
Syracuse Shakespeare Festival switches muses for Moliere’s classic comedy The Misanthrope
Aristocrats, Moliere told us 350 years ago, are just like other people. When the greatest French comic playwright of them all flourished in the 1660s, only the top 1 percent could go to the theater, and those people wanted to see themselves on stage, with silk, lace, knee breeches and tall white wigs for women and for men.
Wednesday, April 3,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Door Prize
Energy overflows in the Redhouse’s fast and furious farce Noises Off
Brevity, we have been told, is the soul of wit. To this playwright David Ives adds, “It’s all in the timing,” although he did not say it first. That means slow burns can wreak gales of laughter, but generally speed, preferably breakneck, increases laughter.
Wednesday, March 27,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Arthur! Arthur!
Recalling a life in the theater with the late Arthur Storch, founder of Syracuse Stage
Arthur Storch said repeatedly that he liked being in Syracuse and that he looked upon Syracuse Stage as an opportunity to do what he wanted to do—and could not do as readily anywhere else. At least that is what he said to this Syracuse New Times interviewer on several occasions.
Wednesday, March 20,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Bottoms Up
The Redhouse unzips The Full Monty for The District’s theater festival
The Full Monty is the Redhouse Arts Center’s contribution to The District theater festival’s trio of rotating productions at the New York State Fairgrounds’ Empire Theater.
Wednesday, March 20,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Mad About You
Social taboos and insanity drive the strangeness of Rarely Done’s Suddenly, Last Summer
Forget the movie. Gore Vidal greatly opened up and lengthened (i.e. mutilated) Tennessee Williams’ oneact Suddenly, Last Summer for director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s black-and-white film adaptation in 1959. This alliance further estranged Vidal from the playwright.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Puck Everlasting
Syracuse Stage and SU Drama conspire for a lavish production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ashland, Ore., has come to Syracuse. Timothy Bond, producing artistic director at Syracuse Stage, served for more than 10 years with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Over the years, he has favored some old Ashland colleagues, such as director Penny Metropoulous, who helmed last spring’s Red.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Family Matters
Appleseed extracts the appeal of relationships between parents and their kids in the old-school drama I Remember Mama
Once upon a time, many eons ago, playwrights fashioned dramas about functional rather than dysfunctional families. It sounds like a fairy tale, but in stage plays such as I Remember Mama, husbands and wives willingly remain faithful to one another, and they love their children.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
STAGE
STAGE
This Show Adds Up
David Auburn’s Proof came out of nowhere in the year 2000 to win both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize even though it is nominally a mystery story about the authenticity of a formula in higher mathematics. Further, it is a formula playwright Auburn implies no one in the audience can comprehend.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
STAGE
STAGE
Long Island Unsound
Rarely Done’s Grey Gardens: The Musical probes the fact-based tale of two decrepit socialites in East Hampto
Grim film documentaries are not supposed to be the stuff of musical theater. Chances are you know the premise of David and Albert Maysles’ Grey Gardens (1975), even if you’ve never seen it. Two batty old patricians, a mother and daughter both named Edith, squabble amid the squalor of a 28-room East Hampton mansion filled with cat feces.
