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Wednesday, November 7,2012
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All in the Family

A cultural taboo leads to tragedy and buckets o’ blood in SU Drama’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

By James MacKillop
What a title! Once hear the words ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, for John Ford’s little-performed, shocking Jacobean (1629-1633) tragedy, they stick with you forever, regardless of what y
Wednesday, November 7,2012
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Sidewalk Storyteller

Our pavement prince again ambles up and down the Salt City’s historic neighborhoods

By James MacKillop
If a journey of a thousand miles begins with but one step, a journey of 2,000 miles needs just a little more nudge. My cardiologist had recommended exercise, and...
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Pregnant Pause

A British drama’s hot potato topic addresses the human element in Appleseed’s The Choice

By James MacKillop
Abortion, as we knew long before the current, contentious presidential election, is a subject with virtually no middle ground. Both sides are well-defined, hardened and resistant to suasion. Shoul
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Turbulent Triumph

Le Moyne College offers a substantially reshaped version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest

By James MacKillop
William Shakespeare wrote a play titled The Tempest (1611), his last, long thought to contain a partially autobiographical character: Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan. Le Moyne College’s y
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Pol Position

Pol Position Onondaga Hillplayers vote for laughs in the timely farce The Senator Wore Pantyhose

By James MacKillop
In The Senator Wore Pantyhose, the senator in question is not Kirsten Gillibrand, whose real pantyhose would hardly be worth noting let alone be made the subject of rollicking and loose-limbed far
Wednesday, October 31,2012
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Bow Jest

A string quartet unravels in Kitchen Theatre’s intricate dark comedy Opus

By James MacKillop
One cynical voice explains what constitutes a string quartet, that seemingly genteel institution: “It’s made up of one terrific violinist, one not-so-terrific violinist, one former violi
Wednesday, October 24,2012
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Transylvania Twisted

Shock cinema shtick is part of the musical send-up for the Talent Company’s The Rocky Horror Show

By James MacKillop
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Producer-director Christine Lightcap has been running The Rocky Horror Show since she had braces on her teeth and cruised to the theater on her roller sk
Wednesday, October 17,2012
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Son of Blubber

Seafaring chanteys highlight a new adaptation of Moby Dick at Syracuse Stage

By James MacKillop
In his copious program notes for the Syracuse Stage production of Moby Dick, director Peter Amster praises Julian Rad’s adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel for moving the complex, alle
Wednesday, October 17,2012
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Perfectly Frankie

The birth of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is recalled in Famous Artists’ popular musical Jersey Boys

By James MacKillop
It has to be, in Ed Sullivan’s immortal phrasing, “a really, really big shew” for the Syracuse New Times to cover one of the road productions Famous Artists brings to town. We may b
Wednesday, October 10,2012
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Shooting to Stardom

Losers take aim at political figures in the Redhouse’s dark musical Assassins

By James MacKillop
Stephen Sondheim did not push the envelope far enough in Sweeney Todd, with themes of mass murder and cannibalism. In Assassins he has John Wilkes Booth return from the dead to counsel Lee Harvey Os
 
 
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