tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33178176292566319082011-12-31T00:14:13.031-05:00The Professional Theatre of Central New YorkPatricknoreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317817629256631908.post-39103447457692121142010-06-15T11:52:00.006-04:002010-06-15T12:46:09.225-04:00

If by chance Stage’s production of August Wilson’s Fences, or the brief stop of pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg in Syracuse on his meteoric rise to the mighty Nationals, has piqued your interest in baseball, then two recently published books might make your summer reading list: Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend by James S. Hirsch and The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron by Howard Bryant. I

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One of the joys of experiencing an entire season of plays, as opposed to going to a show here and there, is discovering the ways plays speak to each other. Usually, this involves what we might call high-level themes: family, love, power, art, war etc. It can be very illuminating to see how different playwrights approach the same subject and enlightening to weigh their observations.Sometimes these

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If you did happen to watch the Tony Awards, you saw Roger Robinson win for Best Featured Actor in a Play. In his speech, he alluded to the long time it took for him to arrive at that moment, 46 years. As noted in the previous blog, some of that formative time was spent here in Syracuse as an original member of the Syracuse Repertory Theatre.If you were paying careful attention, you may have also

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The connection to the Yoruba culture of West Africa evident in Patdro Harris’ rousing production of Crowns, currently running at Stage, calls to mind the 1999 Syracuse Stage production of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman.  Soyinka, the 1986 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, set his play in the Yoruban city of Oyo during the Second World War.  Based on true events that took place in

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While it is hard for a blood washed, bible toting, baptized AME to imagine viewing this production outside of a Christian lens, Syracuse Stage’s festive production of Godspell takes us around the world and back again. It is an expression of global faith traditions and an affirmation of God’s presence in the world, to the faithful, – no matter what you call him.I can’t recall ever going to see

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American Idol Finalist Anwar Robinson will sing live for the media in a rare, intimate performance at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, October 22 in the Sutton Pavilion at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street. The performance will begin with brief introductory comments by Director Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj, the Associate Artistic Director at Syracuse Stage.Robinson recently arrived in Syracuse to start

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In Invitation to the Party - Building Bridges to the Arts, Culture and Community Donna Walker-Kuhne writes about writer and director George C. Wolfe's vision for the Public Theatre, one of the leading cultural centers in the country. She states, in her opening chapter that he wanted "to create a theatre that looks and feels like a subway stop in New York City."At the World Premiere of Syracuse

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On Sunday, Sept. 21 after the 7 p.m. performance Syracuse Stage mounted Stage Talk a new discussion series focusing on themes that emerge from each show. The topic of this particular StageTalk was "The N Word, Then and Now." Moderator, George Kilpatrick, a friend and local media celebrity called it a "rare" opportunity to get black people in mixed company to broach the subject.It was indeed.An

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The following conversation took place between Timothy Bond and actress Ebony Jo-Ann, September 20, 2008 at the Community Folk Art Center.Timothy Bond: My name is Tim Bond and I’m the Producing Artistic Director here at Syracuse Stage, Director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and I want to introduce you all to Ms. Ebony Jo-Ann.She is a six time Vivian Robinson AUDELCO award-winner. She has a long

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My Loctician’s Salon is called Rashida’s Transformations. I channel Flip Wilson every time I’m there, because I declare it’s the “booth in the back in the corner in the dark.” On a sunny day last May my processed hair met a sudden death on RT’s cutting room floor. Only the new growth remained. I emerged transformed.The theatre is a place that always carries that expectation. “When the

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