Arthur! Arthur!

Recalling a life in the theater with the late Arthur Storch, founder of Syracuse Stage

Arthur Storch said repeatedly that he liked being in Syracuse and that he looked upon Syracuse Stage as an opportunity to do what he wanted to do—and could not do as readily anywhere else. At least that is what he said to this Syracuse New Times interviewer on several occasions.

Mad About You

Social taboos and insanity drive the strangeness of Rarely Done’s Suddenly, Last Summer

Curtain Call for Arthur Storch

Only 19 of Arthur Storch’s 87 years were spent in Syracuse, but they were the most important for him and for us. Storch was 48, a well-regarded New York City stage director and actor, in the winter of 1973-1974 when he arrived to found Syracuse Stage.

Puck Everlasting

Syracuse Stage and SU Drama conspire for a lavish production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Ashland, Ore., has come to Syracuse. Timothy Bond, producing artistic director at Syracuse Stage, served for more than 10 years with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Over the years, he has favored some old Ashland colleagues, such as director Penny Metropoulous, who helmed last spring’s Red.

Family Matters

Appleseed extracts the appeal of relationships between parents and their kids in the old-school drama I Remember Mama

Once upon a time, many eons ago, playwrights fashioned dramas about functional rather than dysfunctional families. It sounds like a fairy tale, but in stage plays such as I Remember Mama, husbands and wives willingly remain faithful to one another, and they love their children.

This Show Adds Up

Long Island Unsound

Rarely Done’s Grey Gardens: The Musical probes the fact-based tale of two decrepit socialites in East Hampto

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...

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