“On the Market,” a romantic comedy about grief, offers syrupy escapism but only scratches the surface on love and loss.
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JCC’s new theater production is a ‘love letter’ to local BIPOC artists
JCC CenterStage and producer-actor Jennifer Galvez Caton present A.R. Gurney’s play “Love Letters” with a diverse cast and crew on June 27.
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JCC launches outdoor summer performances on Canalside Stage
A tented outdoor stage on the tennis courts of the JCC of Greater Rochester will host a summer performing arts series.
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JCC CenterStage takes it outside
The JCC’s CenterStage is erecting a giant tent to stage shows as a workaround to indoor capacity restrictions that are cost-prohibitive.
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Calendar preview: Digging out
This week’s events excavate the past through film, theater, talks, an anti-racism conference, and an actual archaeological dig.
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When the show must go on
Theaters don’t have the green light to reopen, but there are signs of theatrical life — if you know
where to look for them.
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A new play asks, ‘Is coronavirus Mother Nature’s revenge?’
Jason Odell Williams’ new monologue play, “Social Distancing,” positions the coronavirus as Earth’s way of punishing us, and isolation as a necessary new normal.
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Rochester’s theater community remembers Herb Katz
Herb Katz, a local stage legend who was the first artistic director of the CenterStage at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester, died March 24 at the age of 82.
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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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Theater review: ‘Indecent’
Like the play it’s about, “Indecent” is a challenge to produce onstage. There are several difficult intimacy levels that require true professionalism, and sensitive subject matter including anti-Semitism and homophobia. But it lands well, under meticulous and caring direction, at JCC CenterStage.
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Theater review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride’
Theatrical productions aren’t generally written about Florida. The Sunshine State, with its gators and gulf coast, doesn’t set the stage for a production in quite the same way a cosmopolitan city or the Midwest does. But for Matthew Lopez’s 2015 play “The Legend of Georgia McBride,” a small town Florida setting somehow works perfectly.
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Review: ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth’
Everyone loves a good origin story — a true rags-to-riches, underdog-beats-the-odds-tale can be almost as satisfying as good sex. Through October 21 JCC CenterStage and Bristol Valley Theatre present a retelling of the journey of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, from her childhood as a German Jew pre-Holocaust to respected American sex therapist.
