Along with being a staff writer for the Netflix series “Narcos,” Martin Zimmerman is an award-winning, multi-ethnic, bilingual playwright. His work is largely current issue-based, making it a perfect match for The Hornets’ Nest, Geva Theatre Center’s annual script-in-hand series that investigates “the most challenging and controversial ethical dilemmas of our time.” Zimmerman’s recent work, […]
Leah Stacy
Leah Stacy is CITY's editor-in-chief.
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Heads, they lose
The Shakespeare Players of Rochester, through November 19, present “Hamlet”
in repertory with Tom Stoppard’s 1967 play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead,” which explores
“Hamlet” through the lens of lesser-known characters
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Theater review: ‘Mother (and me)’ at Geva
A darkened, hushed theater has therapeutic qualities. If the show is compelling, it’s a place where troubles of the week can be left behind as the drama unfolding onstage transports the audience to a different reality. This was a good week for theater, and an even better week to see “Mother (and me),” which runs […]
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THEATER | “The Boys Next Door”
Intellectual and developmental disabilities are no laughing matter, but in Tom Griffin’s 1986 play, “The Boys Next Door,” the subject is explored in a humorous, touching take onstage. The story follows four young men with disabilities who live in a communal home supervised by a burnt out young social worker. Throughout the course of the […]
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Theater review: “Finding Neverland”
Adapted from the 2004 film about writer J.M. Barrie’s inspiration behind his famous creation, Peter Pan, “Finding Neverland” is currently on stage at RBTL’s Auditorium Theatre
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THEATER | “Finding Neverland”
When Scottish novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie met widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her four sons around the turn of the 20th century, he was in a creative slump. Through a friendship with the energetic children and their mother, Barrie found the inspiration to create his most famous set of characters: Peter Pan and the […]
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Theater review: “Church and State”
JCC CenterStage
opened its 40th season doing what Ralph Meranto
does best: producing a new national work, with local actors, for local
audiences.
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Something for everyone
Geva opened its 2016-17 season with the comedy.
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You do the maths
The touring production of the Tony-winning Broadway hit opened at RBTL this week
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Leah reviews ‘Careless Whispers’
Each year, there are many comedy offerings at Fringe — sketch, improv, stand-up (and yes, there’s a difference). Thank You Kiss, which presented its hour-long show, “Careless Whispers,” at Blackfriars Theatre, is a Rochester-based sketch comedy troupe. Whereas improv isn’t usually scripted and stand-up often addresses the audience directly, sketch relies primarily on scripted scenes […]
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Leah Stacy reviews ‘Dracula’
Producing one Rochester Fringe Festival show is ambitious — but just one show isn’t enough for Virginia Monte and WallByrd Theatre Co. In addition to “The Kiss,” which plays at SOTA for a last time on Saturday, September 24, at 9 p.m., WallByrd teamed up with Syracuse-based actor and playwright Alec Barbour to mount his […]
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Leah reviews ‘A Blue Sky Like No Other’ and The 24-Hour Plays
Everyone has a September 11 story — whether it’s an eerie coincidence, a “where I was when I found out,” or a “my neighbor was there” — but perhaps none can tell the story of that fateful day quite like someone who was in Manhattan when the Twin Towers collapsed. Steven Fetter, who grew up […]
