Composer William Finn was never one for mere boy-meets-girl musicals or even boy-meets-boy shows. His best-known works, Falsettos (1992) and The 25th Annual Putnam…
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The Binghamton-based band Driftwood got its modest start playing shows at venues like Al’s Wine and Whiskey Lounge in Armory Square. Now the outfit…
The life of the English theater’s first woman playwright Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was so fabulous it almost feels invented. Along with being the first…
Since 1937, thousands have made the trek to the town of Palmyra for a dose of old-time religion: the Hill Cumorah…
It’s now regarded as the granddaddy of 1950s rock musicals, even though it first started as a wild parody of the Eisenhower…
Jason Alexander was in the original cast of Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound (1987) and won a Tony Award for singing…
Hard times foster lyricism. The 1930s and 1940s were unquestionably tough decades: unemployment, Jim Crow laws, the Dust Bowl, followed…
If you haven’t noticed lately that actor-director Jason Alexander is in our neck of the woods, then you haven’t been…
The Everson Museum of Art’s exhibit Time Returns: A Continuous Now has an ambitious agenda. Curators Judy Natal and D.J.…
The National Institute of Health reported not long ago that although men still consume more alcohol than women, the differences in abuse between the…
Millennials. Defined as the generation born between 1981 and 1996, they are often described as lazy, entitled, impatient and lacking…
Central New York Playhouse’s inventive production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (through Saturday, May 18) takes William Shakespeare’s fantasy comedy…
Joe Bob Briggs, the longtime champion of outlaw cinema, will visit Central New York this weekend as his “How Rednecks…
Rape, forced intercourse, was first a moral question: a sin. Subsequently it became a legal question: a crime. More recently…
The local premiere of Matt Cox’s off-Broadway smash Puffs marks a generational departure for executive director Dan Tursi’s 14-year-old Rarely…