Central New York Theater Reviews
The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Central New York.
BWW Review: DIRTY DANCING Opens at Proctors
The electrifying cast belts out classic tunes with dance moves and talent like no other.
BWW Review: Travis Wall's SHAPING SOUND Continues to Mesmerize Audiences in its Fifth Year
With five years under its belt (or dance belt, if you will), Travis Wall's Shaping Sound continues to mesmerize and stun audiences with innovated, invigorating, and enticing choreography.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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OFC Creations Theatre Presents: Hairspray! OFC Creations Theatre Center (9/24-10/11) |
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Dogfight Theatre444 (8/21-8/29) |
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Hell's Kitchen Landmark Theatre (11/10-11/15) |
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Million Dollar Quartet Geva Theatre (2/23-3/21) |
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All The Devils Are Here Geva Theatre (1/13-1/31) |
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OFC Creations Presents: Kiss of the Spider Woman OFC Creations Theatre Center (1/28-2/14) |
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A Christmas Carol Geva Theatre (11/25-12/27) |
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Purpose Geva Theatre (4/06-4/25) |
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OFC Creations Theatre Presents: The Osmonds: A New Musicals OFC Creations Theatre Center (4/08-4/25) |
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Hairspray! OFC Creations Theatre (9/24-10/11) |