Not-So-Simple Simon

Appleseed does justice to Neil Simon’s complex comedy memoir Lost in Yonkers

There’s a good reason Lost in Yonkers doesn’t feel like any other Neil Simon play. Quite apart from being the most successful comic playwright in...

Just Add SALT

The Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Live Theater awards celebrates its 10th birthday this year, with local performers, directors and...

Cartoon Clubhouse

Spooky Dog offers a naughty woof spoof of a Saturday-morning neo-classic TV series

 For those who loved the old Hanna-Barbera animated whodunit TV series Scooby Doo, Where Are You? as a kid, then wondered years later why the hell you did, maybe Spooky Dog and the Teenage Gang M

Not Home for the Holidays

The threat of an assassin’s arrival sends a wife on the run %u2028in Le Moyne College’s bizarre yuletide comedy Reckless

The Root of All Evil

Moneylender Shylock gets his comeuppance in an amusing revival %u2028of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy The Merchant of Venice

 There’s nothing like a new director to lead a company in new directions. Sharee Lemos, a winner at the Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Live Theater (SALT) Awards, has been on the scene for

Twisted Sisterhood

SU Drama’s Top Girls merges historical feminist figures with a scathing attack on 1980s Thatcherite England

 British playwright Caryl Churchill comes to the stage with fiercely held positions, but she makes her case through surprise and indirection. She seeks to disorient you so you will look anew at w

Life of Pie

Syracuse Opera digs into the quirky cannibal horror-musical triumph Sweeney Todd

 

Baum Shelter

Community-theater treasure Jodie Baum boldly takes on Blanche Du Bois for A Streetcar Named Desire

We know going in why most community theater troupes are reluctant to stage A Streetcar Named...

Do the Locomotion

Two Trains Running continues the annual run of August Wilson productions at Syracuse Stage

Some of the puzzles in Two Trains Running are immediately open to us now. As this is the seventh Syracuse Stage production from August Wilson’s...

Southern Discomfort

Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company hosts the area premiere of the unusual Civil War drama The Whipping Man

Among the many provocative questions Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man asks is, “Were there enough Jewish Negroes at the end of the Confederacy to form a minyan?” That is, a minimum