Reviewed by Lee Shepherd
What a courageous undertaking by director Brandt Reiter and the 10-member cast at the Know Theatre this month – a production of Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre, which opened Friday (June 14).
Started by Williams as a youth of 27 and only finished and produced on Broadway 40 years later, after he’d joined the first tier of noted American playwrights, Vieux Carre is not known to be his best play. In fact, it closed after only five performances.
"Is it a good play?" asked New York...
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Broome Arts Mirror
Reviewed by George Basler
The characters in Avenue Q are puppets behaving badly. You could say they’re walking on the wild side of Sesame Street.
And in the hands of a strong Ti-Ahwaga Community Players cast, the walk is well worth taking. The Owego-based community theater group is closing its strong season with an enjoyable and lively production of the Broadway hit musical.
The show, which runs through this coming weekend, is a spoof of the beloved children’s television...
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The characters in Avenue Q are puppets behaving badly. You could say they’re walking on the wild side of Sesame Street.
And in the hands of a strong Ti-Ahwaga Community Players cast, the walk is well worth taking. The Owego-based community theater group is closing its strong season with an enjoyable and lively production of the Broadway hit musical.
The show, which runs through this coming weekend, is a spoof of the beloved children’s television...
By Nancy Oliveri
All Shook Up, the last show of the Cider Mill Playhouse’s 2012-2013 season, is a hunk-a-hunk-a burning love story fashioned around some of the Elvis Presley's most memorable tunes, strung together by Joe DiPietro in a plot that is a funny, topical, gender-bending and a small town civics lesson to boot. In the show, which opened Thursday (June 6), the residents of a Midwestern town where nothing happens are all shook up by the arrival of a hip swingin’, song singin’ “roustabout,” Chad...
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A campaign has begun to rename the Little Theatre at SUNY Broome (Broome Community College) for longtime theater professor and director Angelo Zuccolo, who died last month. This type of initiative needs input from various constituencies: faculty, students, alumni, community individuals. You can send letters of support to Dean of Liberal Arts Michael Kinney with a copy to Francis L. Battisti, Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer (Acting). BCC’s mailing address is 907 Upper Front St., Binghamton, NY 13905.
Also, an Angelo Zuccolo Memorial Scholarship has...
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On Saturday, I was privileged to be in the audience for the Downtown Singers' spring concert. Karl Jenkins' Requiem is an amazing piece, and the Singers did a wonderful job.
Were the arts part of your weekend, too? Did you perform, rehearse, gallery-hop or just sit back in the air-conditioning and talk with friends about the past, present and future of the arts in Broome County? Please share....
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Reviewed by Lee Shepherd
The Binghamton Downtown Singers took a leap of faith Saturday night (June 1), tackling an innovative and challenging program just as their founding artistic director, Alan Crabb, would have wanted. Crabb, who died last September, was a strong leader who pushed his choir to stretch and grow. Although best-know for their annual performances of Handel’s Messiah, the Downtown Singers also have performed most of the large signature pieces in the choral repertoire.
"This is for you, Alan," his widow, Marisa Crabb, said to the...
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How were the arts part of your holiday weekend? Did you visit a museum, snap some artistic photos, listen to pipers in a Memorial Day parade?
Were you in rehearsal for one of the many season-ending performances planned by local choruses and theater companies?
Or, perhaps, you and your fellow holiday picnickers spent some time just talking about the arts and their importance to Broome County.
Please share your thoughts with BAMirror....
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