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BWW Review: GREAT EXPECTATIONS Entertains at Syracuse Stage
Syracuse Stage opened its 44th season with Gale Childs Daly's adaptation of Charles Dickens' masterpiece GREAT EXPECTATIONS, brilliantly directed by Michael Bloom. The production is humorous, fast-paced, and very easy to follow regardless of familiarity with the novel....
BWW Review: The Regional Premiere of TENDERLY: THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL at The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival has now opened its fourth premiere musical at Auburn's Merry-Go-Round Playhouse for the 2016 season with the regional premiere of TENDERLY: THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL. The two-person musical is written Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman and was originally ...
BWW Review: OUTSIDE MULLINGAR at Capital Repertory Theatre
Rain and romance fill Capital Repertory Theatre with their touching and humorous staging of John Patrick Shanley's "Outside Mullingar." Though confronting themes such as death, acceptance, and self-discovery, the play is a gentle, comedic telling of a feel good, relatable story for all....
BWW Review: JERSEY BOYS New National Tour Begins at Landmark Theatre in Syracuse
JERSEY BOYS, the harmonious hit jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, is touring the country again. The latest national tour of the audience-pleasing Tony Award-winning musical started off last week in Syracuse's historic Landm...
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Entertains at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse
The latest production entertaining audiences at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, New York is the highly entertaining Tony-nominated musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET. Featuring the familiar and classic tunes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins, the rock n' roll music...
BWW Review: CHICAGO at Park Playhouse
Park Playhouse's production of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago brings a slick, sultry, and sensual vibe to Washington Park, seducing its way through each member of the audience. The show, now known as the longest running American musical in Broadway history, is ruthless, dark, and heartless, thou...
BWW Review: THE PRODUCERS at Schenectady Light Opera Company
A musical formed by the geniuses of Mel Brooks, Nathan Lane, and Matthew Broderick would no doubt be a comedic masterpiece, and that is exactly what The Producers is. This critically acclaimed musical opened on Broadway in 2001 and broke the limit for the most Tony Award wins with 12, though Hamilto...
BWW Review: THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL at Capital Repertory Theatre
There are very few productions that move me to tears, the last being Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Violet starring Sutton Foster, ironically also based on a woman's journey to happiness. And though I usually stay composed and proper, something about Capital Repertory Theatre's beautiful pr...
BWW Review: LIVING ON LOVE at Curtain Call Theatre
It's obvious that theatre nowadays has begun to stray from the cute, playful shows of the 1950s, in which plots were thin and laughs were large. And rightfully so, as after a certain point, one craves to feel moved and inspired by a piece. But something about Joe DiPietro's Living on Love, which ope...
BWW Review: THE BLUE-SKY BOYS Lands Safely at Capital Repertory Theatre
Who knew that a show based upon President Kennedy's promise to get a man on the moon could be so entertaining, humorous, and, to put it simply, magnificent? The Blue-Sky Boys, which opened Tuesday at the Capital Repertory Theatre, is written by Deborah Brevoort, under the direction of Gordon Greenbe...
BWW Review: Schenectady Light Opera Company Lets It All Out To Shine In HAIR
The cast, or tribe as they preferred to be called, of Schenectady Light Opera Company's production of Hair is certainly letting it all out to shine for us in this restaging of the 1968 Broadway game changer. The production is extremely timely considering the upcoming presidential election and protes...
BWW Reviews: BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON at University At Albany
Audiences expecting a historic, telling musical of our seventh president of these United States, Andrew Jackson, are in for quite a surprise. The show, which prefaces that it is not historically accurate, is an emo and rock filled tale of Jackson, the formation of the Democratic Party, and his tortu...
BWW Reviews: CNY Playhouse Presents a Stranger Holiday Story with MRS. BOB CRATCHIT'S WILD CHRISTMAS BINGE
The holidays are here again, and with them come countless versions of traditional Christmas shows that play every season. So it's heartening that one Central New York theater company wants to step outside of the ordinary and put on a holiday show unlike any other....
BWW Reviews: SCORCHED reaches for tragedy, finds sadism
There's a marked difference between a tragedy and a wallow, and Scorched falls on the wrong side of that divide early and often. Syracuse Stage's production of Wajdi Mouawad's play skillfully renders its themes, but that's more to its detriment than to its credit when the play is question is this le...
BWW Reviews: Kitchen Theatre's Delightfully Funny and Profoundly Poignant HEROES
Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY opened its 2013/2014 season on September 7 with the delightfully funny yet profoundly poignant regional premiere of Gerald Sibleyras's Heroes....
BWW Reviews: Geva Theatre Center's Season Closer is a Happy Reverie
Audiences can expect a whimsical adaptation of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'...
BWW Reviews: GOOD PEOPLE Presents a Lesson on Pride at Syracuse Stage
Margaret Walsh swears she will never beg, even if she wanted to. Her sarcastic pride would stop her before uttering a profane-introduced "please." Or, at least that's what she demands you to think. She's begging the entire time, and that's okay. She has every right to....
BWW Reviews: Rochester Audiences Go 'Clubbing' at Geva Theatre
The Mainstage production of Karen Zacarias's "The Book Play" is anything but bookish...
BWW Reviews: TWO TRAINS RUNNING Arrives at Syracuse Stage
How good can chicken taste when you really wanted ham-when you've spent an exhaustive amount of energy for it? Chicken will never taste the same again: probably sour and, perhaps pridelessly cheap. Fittingly for TWO TRAINS RUNNING, ham and chicken are inherently a cultural war cry, excitedly felt at...
BWW Reviews: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Socially Conscious Theater
Rochester's Geva Theatre Center produces the newest version of Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" through February 10...
BWW Reviews: Landing NEXT TO NORMAL at Geva Theatre Center
Geva's presentation of NEXT TO NORMAL is affecting and provides a lingering thought of what normal could be. The cast is astounding, and the emotion is real. You hope that they can land on normal, but the truth is, they're not really sure where normal is anymore....
BWW Reviews: WHITE CHRISTMAS Brings the Holidays Early to Syracuse Stage
IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS is exactly what it should be: a sensational holiday feel-good experience. One that worships warm reds and greens, fervent Christmas trees, musings of snow and the cozy thoughts of sipping 'hot cocoa.'...
BWW Reviews: WICKED Brings Magic to The Landmark Theatre
It's not hard to realize why WICKED remains a huge favorite for theatergoers and even for those with a less musical inclination....
BWW Reviews: MOTHERHOOD: THE MUSICAL Delivers the Labor Pains of Being a Mom
As the lights went down, the audience heard: "You won't have to cook, clean or fold any laundry for the next 90 minutes." As the title flaunts, MOTHERHOOD: THE MUSICAL is indeed about the joys, woes and bladder control problems that entails being a mom....
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Over The Rainbow: The Golden Girls Musical OFC Creations Theatre (5/14-5/31) |
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Amelie Theatre444 (6/05-6/13) |
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Sunday in The Park with George Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education (6/19-6/28) |
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The Wiz Proctors Theatre (2/23-2/28) |
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The Last American Newspaper Capital Repertory Theatre (9/25-10/18) |
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Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) The Longacre Theatre (11/01-11/01) |
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The Phantom of the Opera Proctors Theatre (6/23-7/04) |
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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Artist’s Choice: Arthur Jafa–Less Is Morbid The Museum of Modern Art (11/19-7/05) |
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Elvis My: Way Brandon Bennett sings Elvis Presley Geva Theatre (7/09-7/19) |
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Baron Vaughn: Cycle Breaker Geva Theatre (4/28-6/07) PHOTOS |
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