In “The Real James Bond… Was Dominican,” writer-actor Christopher Rivas asks how the man behind such a monumental figure simply vanished.
Geva
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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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Memorial Saturday for Rochester theater icon Barbara Biddy
Biddy was co-founder and artistic director of the Shipping Dock Theatre. Her life and work will be commemorated on Saturday with a service that’s open to the public.
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BIODANCE celebrates 12 years in the art of humanity
Rochester’s repertory dance company will present a series of collaborative concerts at Geva in celebration of its 12th year.
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Geva stages world premiere of ‘One House Over’
Catherine Trieschmann’s new play explores themes of family, culture, and roots — it’s a sweet, hilarious story about immigration, love, and trusting strangers.
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Theater review: ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ at Geva
There’s a great responsibility and gravity that comes along with staging (and reviewing) a show like “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The Holocaust wasn’t even a hundred years ago, but feels at once farther and closer, in many ways. While connections have been made between that era and the current political climate, many Holocaust survivors […]
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Feedback 4/06
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Feedback 9/23
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Curtains up
Our top 10 picks for the 2015-16 theater season The 2015-16 theatrical season is all about fresh faces. New shows, theater companies, and directors abound, bringing a welcome energy to our local stages. It will be a busy season, but here are 10 productions that caught our attention. “James and the Giant Peach” (Rochester Association […]
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Theater Review: “Tinker to Evers to Chance” at Geva Nextstage
One of the themes underlying two of Geva’s plays this season seems to be — as the PR for the latest Nextstage production has it — “the redemptive power of baseball.” This particular kind of redemption is achieved not by good works, but by faith — eternal optimism directed toward perpetually losing teams. Last winter’s […]
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Theater Review: Geva Theatre Center’s “Informed Consent”
Race is clearly a topic of interest at Geva. It is addressed very obviously in the recent “Clybourne Park,” and more subtly in “Informed Consent,” a brand-new play by Deborah Zoe Laufer in its world-premiere production. To make a very rough generalization, one play deals with race in terms of society, the other in terms […]
