Blackfriars Theatre’s production of “Pretty Fire,” featuring a warm, open-hearted performance by Adryanna Elmendorf, runs through Nov. 7.
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One-man theater company Aspie Works embraces autism and artistry
Justin Rielly’s one-man theater company Aspie Works is as prolific as it is positive.
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Blackfriars Theatre announces 2018-19 season
With each new season, Blackfriars Theatre seems to further test its own boundaries. In its 2017-18 season, the company set a mission to focus on more women artists and women-centered stories — to great success with its all-female “Twelfth Night,” its holiday show, “Little Women,” and the recent “When We Were Young and Unafraid.” The […]
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Rochester youth find consequence and conscience in ‘Macbeth’
The three teenage actors on stage are working through Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” a crucial scene in the tragedy. Lady Macbeth, tormented by guilt and sleepwalking, can’t clean her hands of the deaths of King Duncan and others who have stood in the way of the ambitions of her and her husband. […]
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Geva announces 2018-19 season
Geva Theatre Center unveiled its 2018-19 season this afternoon, a lineup that again includes a popular older favorite and several new works. In the season, Geva continues its commitment to staging premieres of new works and to multi-cultural works. It starts its season with a production of the smash 60’s hit “Hair” in its principal […]
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Parcel 5 plan proceeds; so will the criticism
The RBTL-Morgan proposal may be the best plan imaginable for Parcel 5. But the concerns about it are legitimate, and they’re important.
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Eddie Money looks to recharge his legacy with musical ‘Two Tickets to Paradise’
Eddie Money careened into the room like a one-man parade. The veteran rocker was his own hype man as he pin-balled from desk to desk during a recent visit to CITY Newspaper. In case there was any doubt, he was wearing a hoodie that said “Money, Money, Money” on the back. “Eddie Money, the rock […]
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New Year’s Eve 2017 Guide
[ COMEDY ] New Year’s Eve Spectacular Featuring live music, live actors, a champagne toast at Midnight, followed by after-show dance party. 7:30 & 10 p.m. $25-$30. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd. 232-4382; gevacomedyimprov.org. New Year’s Eve with Tony Baker 7:30 & 10 p.m. $20-$25. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd. 426-6339; carlsoncomedy.com. […]
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Theater review: ‘Dracula’ at Blackfriars
Although Christmas decorations quickly replaced any remnants of Halloween in stores, a large harvest moon hangs low in the sky and the weather has just begun the transition from temperate to bone chilling. With the opening of its second 2017-18 season production, “Dracula,” on Halloween, Blackfriars Theatre isn’t in a rush to move past the […]
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Best Arts & Entertainment 2017
Best Local Original Band Joywave. @joywavemusic; joywavemusic.com Runners up: Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People | Harmonica Lewinski | Junkyardfieldtrip Best Local Solo Musician Teagan Ward. facebook.com/teaganwardmusic; teaganward.com Runners up: Cammy Enaharo | Roger Kuhn | Nick LeDuc Best Local Hip-Hop Act Tugboat. facebook.com/theofficialtugboat Runners up: Ishmael Raps | Level 7 Experience | MdotCoop Best […]
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Theater review: ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’
The reinstated Greece Theatre Company stages a next-level production of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Lyric Theatre
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Setting the scene
Before a play or musical opens, crews are work for weeks to build a temporary world on stage.
