Unsentimental Journey

An aging lady travels through Texas to find herself in Hangar’s The Trip to Bountiful

For the late playwright Horton Foote (1916-2009), living long was the best revenge. In his extended career, he was in and out of fashion, and despite winning Pulitzer Prizes, that meant mostly out

The Moor, the Merrier

Two cross-dressing actors cavort amid a gloomy English estate in Cortland Repertory’s satiric The Mystery of Irma Vep

The Mystery of Irma Vep is a curious, one might even say ridiculous, mystery because just about everyone enters the theater knowing her true identity. And if you don’t know, you figure it out

The Reich Stuff

The Nazi menace again rears its head in Merry-Go-Round Playhouse’s inspired rethinking of the musical Cabaret

It’s been 11 years since Brett Smock, one of Merry-Go-Round Playhouse’s favorite director-choreographers, staged John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret in Auburn. Eleven years is more t

Selling The Drama

Syracuse Opera’s new season features three very different, yet popular, offerings

Honor, power, love, laughter, weddings, daggers and death will fill the dramatic 2012-2013 season of Syracuse Opera. Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro comprises a season that is perfect for opera newbies or longtime lovers of the art, with classic, well-known music that helps tell these unforgettable stories. Performances will take place at two of the theaters within the Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St.

Getting The Acts

Central New York’s new season of theater boasts comfort food as well as in-your-face works

 This year we can see Jersey Boys, a white whale on stage, musical assassins and the return of Debbie Does Dallas. Shakespeare will be the most produced playwright with two rival companies as wel

Rube Awakening

A drama student and aging Canadian farmers learn from each other in Cortland Repertory’s The Drawer Boy

The phrase “hit Canadian play” is not an oxymoron, although it may sound like one. Michael Healy’s The Drawer Boy opened in Toronto in 1999 and then appeared in most of the leading re

Disorderly Conduct

Rock’n’roll mixes with manic depression in the unusual musical Next to Normal at Ithaca’s Hangar Theatre

Rock idiom may have dominated American popular music since Elvis was drafted into the Army, but the musical theater embrace of rock has been fitful and irregular. Jonathan Larson scored a huge hit

Arias Carry

A pair of rare operas highlights this summer’s Glimmerglass Festival season

Of all the upstate companies covered by the Syracuse New Times, only the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown is a destination. Audiences are national and international as well as local. Producing

Full Gallop

Fingers and Toes

Top-drawer talent drives the fun musical Fingers and Toes in Auburn