Craig Wright’s “Grace” had a modest Broadway run a few years ago, and Out of Pocket’s presentation at MuCCC suggests why it was modest. Despite interesting ideas and moments, it doesn’t convince as a whole. However, at MuCCC, “Grace” gets a production that at least shows the play to good advantage, and shows off some […]
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Character in the 21st century
Rising local playwright Kate Royal captures the voice of the millennial generation
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Reserving judgment
When “Judgment at Nuremberg” opens this week at MuCCC, it will mark the last full production directed by Michael Arvé, a director and actor with a long history in Rochester community theater. Involved with theater since he was a high school student in Rochester, Arvé has taken part in a long list of plays — […]
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“King Lear”
Which of Shakespeare’s plays is his greatest? It’s a fatuous question, of course, but if I had to choose, I think “King Lear” would be a front-runner. That may be a reflection of growing older: this play has profound and unsettling things to say about aging, physical and mental decline, selfishness, abuse of power, and […]
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Rebecca reviews “My Name is Rachel Corrie”
MuCCC hosted an important work of art the past two nights. The one-woman show, “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” chronicles the life of a young American Peace Activist who traveled to Gaza in 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement to defend Palestinian homes from being demolished. Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while protecting […]
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David reviews “W.A.C. Iraq” and “Bernhardt on Broadway”
Rochester Latino Theatre Company’s "W.A.C. Iraq" takes a complicated subject and presents it in a simple, powerful way. This tribute to Latina women in the Armed Forces who have served in Iraq honors their contributions, details their sacrifices, and asks some disturbing questions about a country that gives poor women opportunities in the military and […]
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Theater Review: “The Kingdom Next To Fid” at MuCCC
The poster for “The Kingdom Next to Fid” promises, “There may be unicorns.” You’ll have to find that out for yourself, but if you see the new play at MuCCC, I can guarantee you will see all the other classic adventure-fantasy ingredients: good and evil fairies, chambermaids who are truly princesses, handsome princes, spells and […]
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This is our youth
If the theater lacks a young audience, it may be in part because young people don’t often see themselves portrayed realistically on stage. Spencer Christiano’s “Cow Town,” a new play opening this weekend at MuCCC, addresses that situation, holding a mirror up to modern behavior, good and bad. “Cow Town” is about … a lot […]
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New initiative brings performances into neighborhoods
The City of Rochester announced a new program today that will bring “pop-up” performing arts events into neighborhood parks and playgrounds. The Art/Life initiative is a partnership between the City and the Multi-Use Cultural Community Center, with support from Young Audiences, that will present eight free, family-friendly performances in different Rochester neighborhoods during July and […]
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Theater Review: “Hedda” at MuCCC
The most unheroic of heroines is currently appearing at MuCCC in “Hedda,” an adaptation by M.L.P. Carroll of Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” that brings some interesting changes on the original. Carroll changes the setting from late 19th-century Norway to New Haven, Connecticut, in 1948. Hedda (Meredith Powell) is returning to town from a long, arid […]
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Theater Review: “The Winter’s Tale” by Rochester Community Players
Part domestic tragedy, part raucous comedy, mostly improbable fairy tale, “The Winter’s Tale” is one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing and confounding works. Rochester Community Players’ production of the show, running until the end of this month, is a well-conceived take on a play seldom seen but definitely worth seeing. As “The Winter’s Tale” begins, Leontes, […]
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Theater Review: Irish Players’ “Shining City” at MuCCC
The Irish Players’ “Shining City” is described as “an Irish ghost story for today,” but it’s not a shivers-around-the-campfire kind of ghost story, nor is it full of banshees or other Celtic heebie-jeebies. There is a ghost in it, or something described as a ghost, but Conor McPherson’s play is something more subtle and more […]
