As a hobby and an amateur art form, community theater is vital. It’s where many famous performers first get a taste of the stage, after all. But when the mistakes in a show detract from enjoyment and overall content of the show, it’s time to rethink strategy.
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Geva announces 2019-20 season
The new season includes Tony Award-winning musical, “Once;” post-Vietnam hip-hop musical, “Vietgone;” and the world premiere of “Looks Like Pretty,” which is set in a Kodak lab. More than half of the productions are written by and will be directed by women, three plays are written by playwrights of color, and five will be led by directors of color.
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Theater review: ‘The Humans’
The issues raised in “The Humans” are reminiscent of conversations every family has at some point — financial, age, health, careers — and director Mark Cuddy guides the ensemble’s chemistry in such an authentic way that it’s easy to forget there isn’t a real family onstage.
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RIT-NTID announce 2019-20 theatrical season
Each of the fully-accessible shows will feature a combination of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing actors and dancers performing stories that tackle a variety of social and political themes.
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Blackfriars Theater announces 2019-20 season
Blackfriars Theatre celebrates 70 years of downtown arts engagement with the release of its coming season lineup.
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Rochesterians get jazzed at ‘Chicago’
For those who want a fun and even silly experience, the show’s Lucille Ball-esque slapstick humor and vampy tunes hit the right note.
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Theater review: ‘Ordinary Days’
Set in New York City and bursting with song, “Ordinary Days” follows four intertwining storylines, unveiling the surprising ways that a few lives can overlap in a city of more than eight million people.
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Theater review: ‘The Magician’s Daughter’
Geva presents the world premiere of Lila Rose Kaplan’s semi-autobiographical play about a daughter’s relationship with her high-functioning addict father.
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Theater review: ‘Peter Pan’
With an ensemble of more than 40 (including many elementary and middle school-age children) and a jovial, gender-neutral Peter Pan, Robert Wesleyan College Community Theatre’s production of J. M. Barrie’s classic story is a celebration of youth, joy, and freedom.
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Theater review: ‘The Last Night of Ballyhoo’
While holiday classics have their place, it’s refreshing to see a new option on the season once in a while. “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” doesn’t contain a single Christmas carol or Santa sighting, but it’s an insightful look at the prejudices a community can hold against even its own members.
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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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Theater review: ‘Les Misérables’
Fresh off a two-and-a-half year Broadway revival, RBTL’s current season special, the national tour of “Les Misérables,” features an inimitable cast. Every lead performer is precise, nailing the well-known characters they are portraying.
