Jason Silverstein

Festival: What’s your fetish? Whether you’re into biting, stripping, or just the occasional role play, this weekend’s Erotic Arts Festival has only one rule: You’ve gotta do it in public. Today and Saturday, you can get your freak on at the Radisson Riverside Hotel (120 E. Main St.) with super sexy art, workshops,

Dance: See what students at SUNY Brockport’s Department of Dance have been working on at the DANCE/Strasser show, which runs tonight, Friday, and Saturday in the Rose L. Strasser Studio in the campus’ Hartwell Hall (Kenyon Street, Brockport). The show will feature select works from Brockport undergraduate and graduate students, including “Clean This Up and […]

Theater: Something wicked this way comes. And no, we’re not talking about that stupid “Wizard of Oz” prequel that’s still playing at the multiplex. We’re talking about the real deal: “Wicked” – the moneymaking, record-breaking, world famous musical –

Dance students have a few advantages over the average academic crowd. They have workshops and rehearsals instead of writing assignments and recitations. They can work out to relieve stress and be doing their work at the same time. They also get to display their final projects to eager and excited audiences — which can’t exactly […]

What’s your fetish? Do you like biting, or stripping, or role play, or simply being tied up every once in a while? No matter what your sexual preference, this weekend’s Rochester Erotic Arts Festival has only one requirement: that you like doing it in public. On Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6, at the […]

It’s been a month since the Dryden Theatre returned from its renovation hiatus, but the theater is still celebrating its grand reopening in style. Oscar-nominated filmmaker and George Eastman Honorary Scholar James Ivory will be the Dryden’s latest guest of honor when he presents his 1995 film, “Jefferson in Paris,” on Saturday, April 6. The […]

Literary: Area authors Peter Connors and Albert Abonado will make their voices heard at the Little Theatre (240 East Ave.) for this month’s Authors Aloud! reading series, a collaboration between the Little and Writers & Books. The authors will read and discuss their work in this free event, which starts at 8 p.m. in the Little Café. Go to thelittle.org for other special events.

Comedy: Think improv comedy is hard to do for just an hour or so? Try doing it for twelve years. Nuts and Bolts, Rochester’s longest-running improv comedy troupe, will celebrate its 12th anniversary with a special show at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre Center (540 E. Main St.), starting at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through downstairscabaret.org or by calling 325-4370.

Dance: Want to feel what it’s like to be submerged underwater without, you know, actually being submerged under water? The Aquatexture dance show this weekend at the Yards (50-52 Public Market) will give you a pretty good sense of that oceanic feeling.

Dance: As part of the In Studio performance series, which celebrates its 25th anniversary season, Rochester City Ballet (1326 University Ave.) will perform choreography from “Lumavoce,” a recent work from artistic director Jamey Leverett, at 6:30 p.m. The performance will be followed by an open discussion with Leverett and composer Stephen Kennedy. The show is free, but registration is required by calling 461-5850, or by visiting rochestercityballet.com, where you can find the full list of RCB shows.

Art: What does life look like through the eyes of today’s teenagers? Well, you could probably spend a few minutes perusing images on Facebook or Instagram to find out. But if you’re looking for more enlightening and intelligible perspectives, you can see the work of Rochester’s teenage artists at this year’s Through the Student Lens exhibit