When the avant-garde rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” debuted on Broadway in 1971, it was the “Hamilton” of its time — a flashy, pop culture retelling of historical events. RBTL is presenting the musical through Sunday, as part of the show’s 50th anniversary tour.
Leah Stacy
Leah Stacy is CITY's editor-in-chief.
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She’s not there
“Next to Normal” can best be defined as a rock musical and a moving journey through one family’s battle with mental health, suicide, and drug abuse. It’s shockingly relatable. The Goodman family could easily be living in Spencerport or Webster.
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One step at a time
The plot of “Anastasia” centers on street sweeper Anya’s attempt to prove she’s the missing Princess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov, who allegedly escaped her Russian royal family’s execution. On stage at The Aud through January 26.
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Marriage story
In “Slow Food” there’s a deeper dig on the psyche behind the simple concept of eating a meal at a restaurant with a partner. Themes of hunger (both real and imagined), anger, mental health, fidelity, dependence, and manipulation come to the fore as a triangular power struggle between the characters takes place.
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Circle of life
Every millennial in the audience of “The Lion King,” many of whom are now parents, grew up with the 1994 cartoon film from Disney. But does that nostalgia translate to the theatrical adaptation from 1997? Based on Friday’s packed audience at the Auditorium Theatre, it seems that way.
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Made of star stuff
The plot of ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ is an origin story of sorts, a prequel to ‘Peter Pan.’
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Dinner and a show
‘Raging Skillet’ is a touching tribute to Chef Rossi’s career, her mother, and living life to the fullest.
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Music school project gets creative with fundraising
It’s 8 p.m. on a snowy Wednesday night in November, and a crew of musicians is gathered in the cozy third-floor attic of Ben Morey and Katie Morey-Preston’s home, which doubles as a recording studio and rehearsal space. The group is gathered to rehearse for a rather unconventional event: a live performance of Harry Nilsson’s […]
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Hive-minded
A disappearing bee population, Monsanto, and academia take the stage in the first production of Geva’s 2019-2020 Fielding Studio Series, “Queen,” which continues through November 24. This new play by Madhuri Shekar had its world premiere in April 2017 at Victory Gardens in Chicago, and has since won Outstanding Original Full Length Script at the […]
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Theater review: ‘The Amish Project’
On October 2, 2006, a lone gunman entered an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, and opened fire. “The Amish Project,” a 2009 play by Jessica Dickey, is a fictional retelling of that true story — a single-actor show that reimagines the events surrounding the day.
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THEATER | ‘Boom’
From the pen of young playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb comes “Boom,” a circa-2008 apocalyptic comedy about a marine biologist and a journalism student who meet via the internet for a hookup — advertised as “sex to change the course of the world” — for the sake of the biologist’s research. Local theater company Out of […]
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THEATER | ‘The Niceties’
Geva Theatre’s latest production continues an ongoing commitment to both diverse subject matter and selected crew members. “The Niceties,” by female playwright Eleanor Burgess, features a two-person, female cast and a female director, Nicole Watson. It focuses on a black activist student, Zoe, who challenges her white, baby boomer professor on a college paper grade. […]
