Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), that prince of farceurs, lives on more in citation than production. For door-slamming comedies of sexual surprise...

With the premiere of Altar Boyz at the Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St., we now see how Ed Sayles’ much-heralded Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival is going to draw...

Mike Barbour is not your King Lear from central casting. That’s only the first of myriad assets he brings to CNY Shakespeare’s production...

 hile “fresh” and “upbeat” ordinarily sound like compliments, they’re not the kind of words usually associated with Rarely Done Productions’ end-of-season slot.

Perhaps the greatest curtain raiser in Broadway history as well as a show-biz anthem, “Another Op’nin’, Another Show” also kicks off the summer season at Auburn’s Merry-Go

In the Syracuse New Times beat, no original playwright commands more attention than artistic director Rachel Lampert of Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre Company. Writers of interactive comedies might

From The Fantasticks through West Side Story, we get an idea of what the stage musical is supposed to be: boy-meets-girl, complications, yadda-yadda. Well, forget it. In Andrew Lippa’s grou

At a time when several community theater companies are wringing their hands in search of new venues, Steve and Marguerite Beebe’s Encore Productions...

Director-conductor Colin Keating made a smashing local debut with his handling of the beguiling pocket musical A Year With Frog and Toad last spring...

The most indelible image from actress Kathy Bates’ career comes from the 1990 movie Misery, where she’s the crazed fan and James Caan is the bedridden victim. In Morris Panych’s Vigil,