The 2005 musical adaptation lifts spirits like a well-told sermon.
Theater
Theatre Review | ‘Tina: The Tina Turner Musical’
RBTL’s current touring production chronicles the challenging life of Anna-Mae.
Summer stock
Off-season theater options worth a road trip, from NOTA to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
‘Shrek the Musical’ tour stop is a homecoming for local performer
Demetrio Alomar, a School of the Arts and Nazareth University grad, returns to Rochester May 11-12 at West Herr Auditorium Theatre.
Theater Review | ‘Newtown’
A sobering world premiere based on the 2012 school shooting runs at Geva Theatre Center through May 12.
Theater Review | ‘Sisters In Law’
JCC CenterStage presents a political play based on a true story — sort of — through April 21.
Opera Review | ‘Dialogues des Carmélites’
Eastman Opera Theatre’s cerebral production runs through April 7 at Kodak Hall.
Locally grown musical ‘Moses Man: Finding Home’ bound for Off-Broadway
The show also inspired a student refugee art exhibit, on display during an event with JCC Krakow CEO Jonathan Ornstein April 10 at Temple B’rith Kodesh.
Theatre Review | ‘Sanctuary City’
This impactful examination of love, betrayal and deferred dreams runs at Geva Theatre Center through April 7.
Theatre Review | ‘Mala’
Mary Mendez Rizzo stars in this one-woman memory play at Blackfriars Theatre.
Theatre Review | “The Rivals”
The Rochester Community Players Irish Program presents this utterly unserious play at MuCCC through April 6.
Theatre Review | “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”
The one-woman show chronicling Billie Holiday’s final performance runs through March 31 at Geva Theatre Center.






