It's hard to imagine two plays more different from Christopher Hampton's "Dangerous Liaisons" and J.M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," both currently on stage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. The first is a 1985 adaptation of Choderlos...
THEATER REVIEW: Debbie Does Dallas
You should know that "Debbie Does Dallas" the musical - based on the legendary 1978 porn film of the same name - contains no nudity, and the sex is so ridiculously simulated that it's played for laughs instead of laps. Seriously, you can find...
THEATER REVIEW: 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Even without Christopher Plummer's extraordinary performance as Prospero in "The Tempest," the Stratford Festival's current production of William Shakespeare's final play is well worth seeing for its dazzling staging and for the childlike yet...
THEATER REVIEW: "Girls Night: The Musical"
I did an actual double-take when I walked into Geva Theatre for the opening night of its new summer show, "Girls Night: The Musical." Instead of the usually polite crowd of theatergoers decked out in business casual, the lobby was packed with...
DANCE PREVIEW: Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival
The Rochester International Jazz Festival - which wrapped its ninth edition last month - has become the pride and joy of Rochester. The community embraced it from the beginning and helped it become a roaring success. Is Rochester ready to open...
THEATER REVIEW: 2010 Shaw Festival
Go figure: of the five plays I saw at this year's Shaw Festival, "Harvey" is the one I least wanted to see, yet the one I enjoyed the most. Even so, it's a dishonest play. Elwood P. Dowd, its amiably banal hero, believes that being pleasant is...
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Admittedly, I've never been to the New York State Fair. But I can understand why it's such a...
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The definitive guide to Rochester, NY. Inside Annual Manual 2010 you'll find profiles of several...
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Eric said:
Jean: Thanks for your comment. I consider "Virginia Woolf" a serious challenge for a theater company. While the sets and physical set-up are...
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Jean Anne Powell said:
I'm the creative director for an amatuer thearte company and I was wonderin in your opinion how difficult do you think it would be to stage this...
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Kathy Burritt said:
I thoroughly enjoyed this show...twice!! The first visit was by default, a friend had to give up her ticket due to a family issue. I loved it...
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John Haldoupis said:
Janine Mercandetti choreographed the Tap number as stated in the program , oh yeah... I also directed the production ...FYI.- John Haldoupis ,...
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Nick Rogers said:
Can't wait to see it! I am pretty sure, Janine Mercandetti, choreographed the tap number though. :)
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