Kiara Alfonseca

Teens will get their chance to sift through best-selling young adult genre selections and meet award-winning authors during the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival. The festival includes author presentations and opportunities to shop the available titles, get books signed, and connect with other readers over a mutual love of literature. This year’s featured authors include […]

Loud Cow, a new Spencerport art spaces, is hosting “How Did We Get Here,” the first in its Exhibition Series. The show features local artists Clifford Wun, Dara Engler, Debra Fisher, Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, and Megan Armstrong. The pieces exhibited “look at spaces found in the inner worlds of the mental and physical as well as […]

Blackfriars Theatre’s is closing its 2016-17 season with the classic “Death of a Salesman,” a “relevant, relatable, and timeless” story, as Director Brian Coughlin says, about old Willy Loman, a shoe-shining salesman with too many shortcomings to count. The drama by Arthur Miller, first performed in 1949, follows the tragic hero with an “American Dream” […]

A sip of craft beer or cider tastes better when you know it’s going toward saving rhinos from poaching in Africa. That’s what Seneca Park Zoo’s Cinco de Rhino is all about: the 21-and-over fundraising event, filled with wildlife and live music, supports the International Rhino Foundation, which works to protect five species of rhino […]

Your troubles aren’t allowed through the doors at the Kit Kat Klub. Its final show of the 2016-17 season, the Rochester Broadway Theatre League will host Roundabout Theatre Company’s touring production of “Cabaret.” Roundabout produced an acclaimed version of “Cabaret” in 1998 at New York’s Studio 54, and decided to bring it back — co-directed […]

The Borinquen Dance Theatre’s hopes to promote unity during its 36th anniversary community performance, “Together We Dance, United We Soar.” The dance company, rich in Puerto Rican culture, imbues its performances with traditional and authentic island moves, and channels the roots of each performer as Artistic Director Nydia Padilla-Rodriguez and Co-choreographer Christopher Morrison intertwine their […]

The Rochester Association of Performing Arts, beginning this weekend, will have two spectacles running onstage at the Kodak Center for Performing Arts. On the main stage, Premier Productions and RAPA will present the Broadway musical “42nd Street.” The story follows Peggy Sawyer, a young actress just off the bus in New York City, as she […]

The conclusion of Geva Theatre Center’s 2017 Fielding Studio Series brings “Sex with Strangers” to the stage. The Kitchen Theatre Company (based in Ithaca) production follows Olivia, an undervalued novelist, and Ethan, a successful blogger whose fame comes from his one-night stand tales, as the two get stranded in the same cabin during a snowstorm. […]

The University of Rochester’s 2017 Rainbow Lecture will feature Dartmouth College’s William Cheng tackling the online realm of gaming culture and the functions of gender, morality, and societal norms in the video game sphere. Cheng, a professor of music, media, and ethics, uses his expertise to analyze and criticize how users interact with their online […]

No, it’s not what you think. The only kind of peep you’ll get during the Greater Rochester Peep Show is of the sugary, marshmallow variety. The show will feature more than 100 art pieces and dioramas incorporating the marshmallow Peep. Thousands of people came through the exhibit in its first year, and the Webster Community […]

Writer, musician, and performer Chris Lemmon documents and celebrates the life of his father, Jack Lemmon, in “A Twist of Lemmon.” The story for the one-man-show is pulled from Chris’ memoir of the same name — about the journey of their father-son relationship, with a peek behind the curtain at old Hollywood — and is […]