DANCE FEATURE: RIT/NTID's "Off The Wall"

THEATER REVIEW: "The Year of Magical Thinking"

Michael Lasser on January 24th, 2012 - 0 Comments

I've never met Ginni Harden Pierce, yet I feel that I know, almost intimately, a dozen different people she has inhabited in utterly believable performances. A gifted creator of character, she has appeared on local stages for more than 40...

THEATER REVIEW: "Perfect Wedding"

Eric Rezsnyak on January 17th, 2012 - 0 Comments

Geva continues the love and marriage theme of its 2011-2012 season with "Perfect Wedding," a light, frothy farce that's a welcome respite from the gloomy weather outside. Farce is a very specific genre, and it's not everybody's cup of tea....

DANCE FEATURE: Fabo Collabo

Casey Carlsen on January 11th, 2012 - 2 Comments

Fabo Callabo, the title given to this weekend's collaborative dance concert at Geva Theatre, was organized cooperatively by five leading local dance companies seeking to further what they recognize as the flourishing dance scene in Rochester....

THEATER REVIEW: "Incident at Vichy"

Eric Rezsnyak on January 11th, 2012 - 1 Comment

You would hope that by the year 2012, the American public would be fairly well educated about the Holocaust. In addition to the historical records and stories from survivors, there have been countless works of art that have illuminated that...

THEATER REVIEW: "Tom Foolery"

Eric Rezsnyak on January 3rd, 2012 - 0 Comments

Toward the beginning of "Tom Foolery" - a musical revue based around the songs of satirist Tom Lehrer - a cast member explains that if the evening inspires even one audience member to insult a good friend or slap a loved one, it will all have...