Jukebox musicals allow fans to revisit the past without mawkish nostalgia or sneering camp. Chris D’Arienzo’s cleverly put-together Rock of Ages, which runs…
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Getting the flop Walt Disney film Newsies (1992) on the musical stage was a two-decade-long struggle for prolific composer Alan Menken. Although often placed…
Turning from a new tuner with the world premiere of Anne of Green Gables this week at Merry-Go-Round Playhouse to an old-school classic, director…
Matte O’Brien and Matt Vinson are two young Americans who think the most famous of all Canadian novels, Anne of Green Gables (1908),…
The 2018 New York State Blues Festival kicked-off in downtown Syracuse on Thursday, June 28. More than 20 blues bands took…
The 2016 presidential campaign has inspired a wave of media coverage including books, panel discussions on television and radio, and essays analyzing the viability…
Along with being a Central New York premiere, this is the second-ever U.S. production of the show, titled “Defying Gravity.”
A Few Good Men Earlier in this decade Central New York Playhouse’s predecessor, Not Another Theater Company, was establishing a network of performers…
For 20 years, Spark Contemporary Art Space has hosted music and visual art events for the community to share their…
An unexpected loud clatter punctuates the opening scene of Ernest Thompson’s domestic comedy On Golden Pond, running through Sunday, March…
Despite a furious nor’easter that dumped a foot of snow on Central New York last week, more than 600 die-hard…
Larry Kramer, now 82, is an American playwright and AIDS activist best known for his groundbreaking 1985 work The Normal…
The local music production manager will be inducted into the Sammys Hall of Fame
Jukin’ Bone has crossed the big one off its bucket list. Long considered the top live band to come out…
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is one of the best-known and most often-studied American plays of the last…