JONATHAN MEAD

Peppermint teams up with World Hair and Restaurant Good Luck for this third annual showcase displaying the fashion expertise of local Rochester designers. Tanvi Asher, who created the show, will be showing her spring ready-to-wear designs and latest couture bridal gowns. Designs by Josean Vargas and Katrina Elliott will also be shown. A raffle with […]

Calm down, it’s not that kind of peep show. This show will feature submitted works of art made with Marshmallow Peeps or variations on that theme. More than 50 works are expected to be displayed at the Webster Community Center, ranging from colored dioramas, to peep-themed art and marshmallow sculptures. The various submissions will be […]

A genuinely homegrown production, RAPA Family Theatre’s “Mary Poppins” stars more than 40 Rochester-based professional performers, including Kaitlyn Baldwin as Mary Poppins, Brynn Tyszka as Winifred Banks, and Jeff Andrews as Bert. The show is directed by Eric Vaughn Johnson, and continues through this weekend.  Flying, magical nannies, while uncommon in everyday life, have been […]

Some may remember Marc Maron from the last time he was in town, during the 2013 Fringe Festival, where the comedian and acclaimed podcaster headlined several performances. Maron started as a stand-up comic, but attracted a large following several years ago when he started “WTF,” an interview and monologue-format podcast known for its gyration between […]

The Nazareth College Art Department will feature “Circuition: Recent works by Jessica Joyce” this weekend at the Colacino Gallery. Joyce’s skill and interest in metalworking, jewelry making, and photography has resulted in interesting interdisciplinary works. Images mounted on metal bracelets, and dreamlike, atmospheric photo juxtapositions populate this show, which showcases a collision of fine art […]

This Friday, curtains go up on “Peter/Wendy,” a student-acted show directed by Leah Stacy and Shawnda Urie. In this sparsely-staged, atmospheric adaptation, playwright Jeremy Bloom draws from the original source material for Peter Pan — J.M. Barrie’s “Peter and Wendy” and “The Little White Bird” — to create an interpretation with familiar names, places, and […]

As part of Maple Weekend — a statewide program spotlighting maple producers in New York — the Genesee Country Museum will host its annual Maple Sugar Festival for the next two weekends. The Maple Sugar History Trail provides a window into maple sap collection and processing techniques from the 19th century, complete with a log-built “sugar […]

Beginning Thursday, Geva Theatre Center will host “A Body of Water,” a production by Ithaca-based The Kitchen Theatre Company. In “A Body of Water,” a long-married husband and wife wake up in a beautiful summer home on a manicured green lawn, surrounded by an immense body of water. The couple have no idea where or […]

“Flourish,” an upcoming exhibit at Genesee Pottery’s Firehouse Gallery, is the handiwork of artist Joanna Poag. Poag’s work doesn’t consist of pottery in the functional sense — mugs, bowls, and the like — but would be more accurately described as sculpture expressed through clay and glaze. Looking at Poag’s past exhibits is less like looking […]

March 14 will mark the final gallery hours of the Shoe Factory Art Co-op’s current exhibit, “Not a Full Deck.” The exhibit is multidisciplinary, with photographic, digital, paint, mixed media, and sculptural offerings all based on the unifying motif of playing cards. The 13 artists whose work is featured portray this ordinarily commonplace visual in […]

EstroFest, a local comedy collaboration founded in 1999, is staging a collection of weekend shows at Nazareth College. You might recognize some of the cast members from their “day jobs”: Norma Holland is an early-morning news anchor for 13WHAM; Dresden Engle owns Dresden PR, a public relations firm in Brighton; Andrea Holland is the head […]

Raised in Cincinnati, comedian Katt Williams rose to popularity in 1999, when he began to tour extensively. He has since become known for TV and film appearances in “The Boondocks” (voice acting credit), “Norbit,” and “First Sunday,” but is probably most recognized for his role as Money Mike in “Friday After Next.” He has occasionally […]