DCT’s spring program features four shows, including war dramas and a prison-escape caper. The theater will also continue its Rochester Folkus series of singer-songwriters.
Downstairs Cabaret Theatre
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Theater Review: “A Twist of Lemmon” at Downstairs Cabaret
“A Twist of Lemmon” offers a rare glimpse into the creative process and personal life of actor Jack Lemmon.
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Concert Review: Eddie Clendening, Mike Graham, Jason Smay, Danielle Ponder at Record Archive
This is a band so new, it ain’t got a name yet. It got slapped together after Denver, Colorado, strummer and crooner Eddie Clendening sat in for an impromptu jam at Abilene with The Lustre Kings. Clendening is here on business. It just so happens that rockin’ is his business, and business is good. He’s […]
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“Family Secrets”
In the one-woman show “Family Secrets,” currently on stage at the Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, actress Carolyn Michel portrays five different members of one conventionally unconventional family as they struggle to relate to one another and find happiness within their own lives. Originally performed by actress Sherry Glaser and co-written by Glaser with her […]
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THEATER REVIEW: “Motherhood the Musical”
There are certain theater shows that you decide to see because you want to learn, to be challenged, or surprised or moved in some way. Other shows you see because you need a pleasant, inoffensive entertainment to which you can take your grandmother that won’t rile her up too much. The forgettable “Motherhood the Musical,” […]
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The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?
Downstair Cabaret explores
the mind of a man — or what passes for it
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‘Shear Madness’: the ride
‘Shear Madness’: the ride Warning to those suffering from vertigo: Do not ride Shear Madness. The largely improvisational comedy, now at Geva, runs at a frenzied pace, thrusting the audience through an enervating and hilarious trip. The evolution of the play began in Rochester in 1976 when Geva put on a play called Who Dunnit?. […]
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Onstage 9.7.05
Only the puppets get bruised The man in the box office at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre summed it up well: “It’s a real cute love story, actually.” The name of the show — Trick Boxing — combined with the promise of a love story set visions of a Punch and Judy-esque barrage dancing. But no: […]
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Onstage 8.24.05
Happily resolving controversies Shaw Festival’s last 2005 additions are a lovable American modern classic and a downright weird new Canadian play, both of which bring controversial material to a happy ending. Starting with the tawdry material of either a sociological study or a sex fantasy, William Inge’s Bus Stop(1955) treats its troubled characters with such […]
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Welcome to Tuna, Texas. Population: crazy.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, even including the personalities in Tuna, where the claim to fame is being the third smallest town in the state. Country holiday music fills the air and sparkling Christmas lights dangle over the audience, setting a celebratory mood in the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, home to this production of A Tuna Christmas. […]
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A stranger comes to town
Despite its winning both the Toronto SummerWorks Festival’sBest Play and Outstanding Ensemble Awards, Alan Dilworth’s The Unforgettingstrikes me as inchoate and barely effective. The ever-resourceful Downstairs Cabaret Theatre imported this offbeat drama and, because it runs less than an hour, added Canadian folksinger Claire Jenkins with Andrew Penner from the play’s cast to perform a […]
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Irish, Jewish, or Texan, it’s all comedy
One reward from Geva’s artistic director Mark Cuddy’s sabbatical year in Ireland is a new season richly flavored with Irish plays. There will be exciting new ones, but the first, now playing, is 100 years old. And, in every sense of the phrase, it’s a tough choice. No masterpiece, John Bull’s Other Island is talky […]
