Leah Stacy

The energetic crew behind the OFC Creations and RAPA collaboration will launch “I Love You Because” this weekend at the Kodak Center Executive Theatre. The show, which is loosely based on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is the story of high-strung greeting card writer Austin Bennett who falls for whimsical photographer Marcy Fitzwilliams. With the […]

For the second season in a row, Ralph Meranto of JCC CenterStage and Sandy Foster of the Harley School are debuting the world premiere of a musical production. Following the success of last season’s sell out “The Hit Factory,” the original 10-member-cast and creative crew returns for “The Hit Factory 2.” This show is again […]

In its first appearance of 2016, the Rochester Latino Theatre Company (RLTC) will present a bilingual production as part of the Cuentos Del Corazon (Stories from the Heart) series. The one act play, “Where Coffee Meets Culture,” focuses on a group of writers who meet at a coffee shop to share “personal narratives about Latino […]

The journey to find “somewhere over the rainbow” returns to the stage with a reconceived adaptation from Andrew Lloyd Webber (“The Phantom of the Opera,” “Cats”) and Jeremy Sams (“Chitty the Musical”), which originally debuted in London’s West End in 2011. Tim Rice (“Evita,” Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”) and Webber also collaborated to create […]

In 1936 — the same year the Hoover Dam was completed and the Yankees won its fifth world series — Erva Smith and Reverend John Schott created the Webster Theatre Guild. Nearly 80 years later, the guild still exists to produce Broadway-style shows, bestow arts grants, and provide scholarships to high school students who aspire […]

The Kingfisher Theater is one of the newer companies in town, and artistic director Kevin Dedes is wasting no time establishing a reputation for producing new works. Dedes teamed up with local performer Amy Canfield (who also directs the newest show) to write a world premiere production, “The Devil, the Witch, and the Blacksmith,” based […]

It’s been a successful, experimental first half of the season for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra — from Disney-focused performances to live soundtracks for beloved holiday films like “Home Alone” — and 2016 promises to bring more of the same. In the upcoming performance of “Cirque Musica,” a host of touring cirque performers will execute daring, […]

What happens when you’re a Jewish lesbian mother of two who happens to work as a comedienne and you interview 50 other Jewish mothers across the United States? If you’re Judy Gold, you turn those interviews (and your own experience) into a one-woman show and take it on the road. The two-time Daytime Emmy Award-winner […]

The Central Library is hosting a free event featuring Daystar, a Rochester-based company that educates and entertains with the contemporary Native American dance-drama. Rosalie Jones, who was born on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and earned a master’s degree in dance from the University of Utah, founded Daystar in 1980. It is the first such […]