Arts & Entertainment

A new video installation on view at The Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Avenue), “Reflections on Place & Culture: Downey, Gower, Kluge,” features three short art videos that tackle the genre of documentary film and video through traditional and novel ways. Included in the exhibit are Juan Downey’s 1990 “Hard Times and Culture: Part One, […]

The arts and activism go hand-in-hand. This week, the artists of the Hungerford Building (1115 East Main Street) will continue the tradition of creating change with a building-wide FUNgerford event, “Art for Action! Hungerford United.” On Friday, May 5, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., more than 20 participating studios throughout the complex will showcase […]

Everyone’s Theater Company will give one of its signature presentations this weekend at MuCCC: an evening of original, one-act plays, from serious to highly amusing, written, directed, and acted by local artists. For many years now, ETC has presented a chance to cheer on local theater creators, and it’s an opportunity to see a lot […]

If you like a little scandal in your entertainment, New York State Ballet and Rochester Lyric Opera have a double feature to whet your appetite for intrigue. This Friday and Saturday at The Lyric Theatre, NYS Ballet and RLO will perform excerpts from two veritable classics: Georges Bizet’s beloved opera, “Carmen,” and the culturally ubiquitous […]

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 […]

Over the years, an air of mystery and danger has been cultivated around nitrate film, and not just because of its notorious reputation for catching fire and burning movie theaters to the ground. The dominant medium for motion pictures from 1895 to 1948, nitrate film has a picture quality that remains unparalleled for its vibrancy […]

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 […]