Top of the Heap

Actor Mike Barbour provides many crowning touches during his tour de force in CNY Shakespeare’s King Lear

Into the Woods

A quintet of camp counselors come of age in Rarely Done’s summery musical Bunked!

 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.

A Really Big Shrew

Cole Porter mixes music with Shakespeare for Merry-Go-Round’s season opener Kiss Me, Kate

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

Senior Moments

Two aging widows are linked in unusual ways for Kitchen Theatre’s romantic musical comedy Waiting for Spring

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

Generation Gapped

Family members experience war and sacrifice in the unusual time-spanning musical John and Jen

Heavens Below

Encore Productions brings the kitchen cutups of Church Basement Ladies to an inspired location

PEANUTS to You

Not Another Theater Company’s new take on Charlie Brown offers fast-moving fun

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 Long Goodbye

A slow death equals big laughs in the Redhouse’s pitch-black comedy Vigil

For Whom the Belle Tolls

Kate Huddleston’s powerhouse turn as Amanda Wingfield dominates Appleseed’s take on Tennessee Williams’ memoir The Glass Menagerie

The years have been kind to actress Kate Huddleston, one of the youngest people ever to get a Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Live Theater (SALT) Lifetime Achievement Award. As the decades unfold

West-Case Scenario

Bill West, the culture polymath who died at age 74 on April 24, left a wide wake.