The one-man show both honors and humanizes one of America’s greatest playwrights.
Katherine Varga
The play’s the thing
Rochester Community Players features the work of 10 local scribes in the first Playwrights Showcase at MuCCC Oct. 9 – 13.
Plotting the boards
From new plays to political commentary, local theaters have lined up a fresh fall season.
Theater Review | ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’
Sondheim’s strange masterpiece plays at Blackfriars Theatre through Sept. 22.
ROCHESTER TEN | TAURUS SAVANT
Meet the 2024 cohort of CITY neighbors making art – and a difference.
Theater Review | ‘Pericles: Prince of Tyre’
Rochester Community Players stages a whimsical storybook version of one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known productions at Highland Bowl through July 27.
Theater Review | ‘The Color Purple’
The 2005 musical adaptation lifts spirits like a well-told sermon.
Theatre Review | ‘Tina: The Tina Turner Musical’
RBTL’s current touring production chronicles the challenging life of Anna-Mae.
Summer stock
Off-season theater options worth a road trip, from NOTA to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Theater Review | ‘Newtown’
A sobering world premiere based on the 2012 school shooting runs at Geva Theatre Center through May 12.
Theatre Review | ‘Sanctuary City’
This impactful examination of love, betrayal and deferred dreams runs at Geva Theatre Center through April 7.
Theatre Review | ‘Mala’
Mary Mendez Rizzo stars in this one-woman memory play at Blackfriars Theatre.






