Wallbyrd Theatre’s “Bardbending” explores shifting gender roles from classic scenes in ways William Shakespeare never imagined.
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Critics’ picks 2016
Best pathetic PokeStop “Pillars and Archway over Garbage Can” For a good month or two, the sidewalks in some Rochester neighborhoods were filled with people staring at their phones, trying to catch Jigglypuffs and Evees and Snorlaxes. I admit, without any shame, that I was one of the many who got sucked into Pokรฉmon GO. […]
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Leah Stacy reviews ‘Dracula’
Producing one Rochester Fringe Festival show is ambitious — but just one show isn’t enough for Virginia Monte and WallByrd Theatre Co. In addition to “The Kiss,” which plays at SOTA for a last time on Saturday, September 24, at 9 p.m., WallByrd teamed up with Syracuse-based actor and playwright Alec Barbour to mount his […]
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Leah Stacy reviews ‘The Kiss’
There were almost too many performance choices on opening night of the Fringe (a good sign, of course, for the festival’s fifth year). After attending the opening night party where we toasted to the success of 500 shows taking place over the next 10 days, I headed to School of the Arts on Prince Street. […]
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CRITICS PICKS: Adam Lubitow
“Ruts! The Oregon Trail Experience” If you’re anything like me, you’ve got fond memories of whiling away the hours in your elementary school’s computer lab, avoiding homework and playing The Oregon Trail. Fording rivers, hunting for squirrels, and doing everything you could to avoid dying of dysentery; good times. So I’m hoping for a wagon […]
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CRITICS PICKS: Leah Stacy
“The Kiss” One of Rochester’s most experimental theater companies, WallByrd Theatre Co., will present not one but two shows during this year’s Fringe. One is a theatrical reading of a new “Dracula” adaptation; the other is “The Kiss” by award-winning playwright Murray Watts. The two-person show centers on a mysterious meeting at a park bench. […]
