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Wednesday, November 14,2012
STAGE

Polish Jokester

Central New York Playhouse opens its doors with Tom Dudzick’s ethnic-tinged backstage farce Don’t Talk to the Actors

By James MacKillop
When asked, artistic director Dustin Czarny agreed the opening show for his company at a new venue inside DeWitt’s Shoppingtown Mall could be classed as a...
Wednesday, November 7,2012
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Scribble Squabbles

Three authors warily combine their pens for Covey Theatre’s dark comedy Playing God

By James MacKillop
Their goal is commercial, not artistic. Three disparate but successful novelists, urged by their shared agent, the unseen Gaby, agree to merge their celebrities to produce a sure-fire bestseller.
Wednesday, November 7,2012
STAGE

All in the Family

A cultural taboo leads to tragedy and buckets o’ blood in SU Drama’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

By James MacKillop
What a title! Once hear the words ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, for John Ford’s little-performed, shocking Jacobean (1629-1633) tragedy, they stick with you forever, regardless of what y
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Fakin’ It

Old-school Broadway composers are parodied in Rarely Done’s The Musical of Musicals

By Bill DeLapp
Famed Broadway shows get their uproarious comeuppance in Rarely Done Productions’ second helping of...
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Pregnant Pause

A British drama’s hot potato topic addresses the human element in Appleseed’s The Choice

By James MacKillop
Abortion, as we knew long before the current, contentious presidential election, is a subject with virtually no middle ground. Both sides are well-defined, hardened and resistant to suasion. Shoul
Wednesday, October 31,2012
STAGE

Turbulent Triumph

Le Moyne College offers a substantially reshaped version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest

By James MacKillop
William Shakespeare wrote a play titled The Tempest (1611), his last, long thought to contain a partially autobiographical character: Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan. Le Moyne College’s y
Wednesday, October 31,2012
STAGE

Pol Position

Pol Position Onondaga Hillplayers vote for laughs in the timely farce The Senator Wore Pantyhose

By James MacKillop
In The Senator Wore Pantyhose, the senator in question is not Kirsten Gillibrand, whose real pantyhose would hardly be worth noting let alone be made the subject of rollicking and loose-limbed far
Wednesday, October 31,2012
STAGE

Bow Jest

A string quartet unravels in Kitchen Theatre’s intricate dark comedy Opus

By James MacKillop
One cynical voice explains what constitutes a string quartet, that seemingly genteel institution: “It’s made up of one terrific violinist, one not-so-terrific violinist, one former violi
Wednesday, October 24,2012
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A Roaring Tosca

Given a 1920s setting, Puccini’s creation received star treatment at the hands of Syracuse Opera

By Josh Austin
It’s the opera that almost wasn’t. Amid the backstage drama and the rapid formation of a symphony, Syracuse Opera...
Wednesday, October 24,2012
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Transylvania Twisted

Shock cinema shtick is part of the musical send-up for the Talent Company’s The Rocky Horror Show

By James MacKillop
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Producer-director Christine Lightcap has been running The Rocky Horror Show since she had braces on her teeth and cruised to the theater on her roller sk
 
 
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