The Kitchen Theatre has elected to dash away the dreariness of an Ithaca November with side-splitting, fall-on-your-face-laughing comedy. In The Thanksgiving Play, playwright Larissa Fasthorse…
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A Boy and His Soul by Colman Domingo, Kitchen Theatre, through Oct 3 (kitchentheatre.org) Part way in to A Boy and His Soul, Jay (our…
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Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Hangar Theatre through August 7What the Hangar’s…
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Once, book by Enda Walsh, music & lyrics by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová; Hangar Theatre, through July 17 (hangartheatre.org)The Hangar’s current production of the…
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By Ross Haarstad The Realness by Idris Goodwin; Hangar Theatre, through June 26 He’s a boy from the burbs, she’s a city girl; he’s Black, she’s…
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Shape by Kara-Lynn Vaeni; Kitchen Theatre Company, through June 27 Swoosh! The Kitchen Theatre’s world premiere of Shape opens with a flash of musical merriment…
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Read the full review in this Monday’s Tompkins Weekly (tompkinsweekly.com) Tickets at kitchentheatre.org / Through Sun June 29 1967. Revolution. Music. South Side Chicago: “Up…
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Seminar is a play that exists deliriously and perfectly in the moment. Theresa Rebeck’s riff on art versus commerce played out in a quartet of…
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One conundrum in reviewing theater, especially local companies, but even regional leaders, is addressing the balance between production and script. I strive to address both…
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Cock by Mike Bartlett Kitchen Theatre, through March 9 (kitchentheatre.org) Snap! Crackle! Cock, Mike Bartlett’s mad whirling dervish of sex, betrayal, and shifting choices, has…
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