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.

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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

Twisted Sisterhood

SU Drama’s Top Girls merges historical feminist figures with a scathing attack on 1980s Thatcherite England

 British playwright Caryl Churchill comes to the stage with fiercely held positions, but she makes her case through surprise and indirection. She seeks to disorient you so you will look anew at w

Life of Pie

Syracuse Opera digs into the quirky cannibal horror-musical triumph Sweeney Todd

 

Baum Shelter

Community-theater treasure Jodie Baum boldly takes on Blanche Du Bois for A Streetcar Named Desire

We know going in why most community theater troupes are reluctant to stage A Streetcar Named...