It Had to Be Hue

Pinkalicious: The Musical kicks off Rarely Done’s new series aimed at junior theatergoers

Rarely Done Productions, the downtown troupe that specializes in edgy, provocative floorboards fare that most other companies wouldn’t touch, can always be counted on to do the unexpected. An

Critics’ Choice

Theater reviewers and Agatha Christie mysteries are briskly lampooned in Appleseed’s The Real Inspector Hound

Profiles in Courage

"The horror. The horror.” Those four words are groaned at the climax of Joseph Conrad’s famous novella Heart of Darkness, set in the Congo. No friend of the Belgian administration, Conrad

They’ll Take Manhattan

Covey Theatre strikes the right sparks with Neil Simon’s romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park

At first glance the announcement looked like a mistake. What could be motivating Garrett Heater and Susan Blumer’s Covey Theatre Company to revive Neil Simon’s nearly half-century-old do

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