Theatre
SNL
Live from Rochester, it’s Saturday Night!
Three comedians brought the spirit of stand-up to Strong Auditorium, spitting straight humor about true things that happened to them. Read More
Feminism
“Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.” is bizarre and empowering
On the last day of November, I attended “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.” I did no prior research on the play besides a brief script-skimming. I was excited about the play, because I saw the word “vagina” numerous times. It was my first time in Todd Union in over a year. I scanned the room […]
Musicals
ROC Players’ ‘Cabaret’ is dreadful, and it should be
The ROC Players’ production of “Cabaret,” was difficult, disturbing, and upsetting. And I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Running in the May Room over the weekend, their production of the musical, directed by junior Emily Tworek, is a masterclass in the art of narrative dread. “Cabaret” tells the story of a sleazy nightclub […]
Broadway Musicals
‘Where’s OBOC?’ a hit, despite mic trouble
On Friday night, Off Broadway On Campus presented “Where’s OBOC?,” a collection of vignettes and tracks from countless other stage shows, performed live in Strong Auditorium. I had never been to an OBOC show before — the only on-campus drama I’d seen at Rochester before was last year’s performance of “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” […]
"Gone Missing"
‘Gone Missing’ is frustrating and authentic
I’ve never found the topic of loss to be a pleasant one. Yet — while it was sometimes frustratingly confusing — I thoroughly enjoyed the Todd production of “Gone Missing.” The musical, based on a set of interviews by the Civilians, a New York City theater troupe, tells stories of loss, ranging from rings, to […]
Todd Theatre
‘The Pinter Plays’ savor discomfort
“The Pinter Plays,” the UR International Theatre Program’s side-by-side productions of the late playwright Harold Pinter’s one-acts “The Collection” and “The Lover,” possessed a certain sadistic glee in their opening Thursday night. That would make me, I suppose, a happy masochist. The sadism possessed by these plays was not a sadism exerted upon its characters […]
Drama House
IBTL embraces cringe and character with ‘The Musical Show’
In Between The Lines used the format of musicals as their romping ground in “The Musical Show,” which played on Friday and Saturday in Drama House. As with all of IBTL’s shows, everything (in this case, the lyrics, story, and character) was made up on the spot, but the music itself was written by senior […]
TOOP
Barbs and fairies fly In TOOP’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
If you had told me a week ago that before the week was over I would be rick-rolled via Shakespeare, I would have told you to seek medical attention. But I nevertheless found myself in such a situation last Friday evening in Goergen Hall, watching The Opposite Of People’s production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer […]
OBOC
OBOC makes a scene with ‘Confessions of a College Musical Theatre Group’
“Confessions of a College Musical Theater Group,” the title of Off Broadway On Campus’ spring show on Friday evening in Strong Auditorium, may sound like a placeholder title for the performance group’s biannual musical revue, but it actually held a lot of relevance. Many of the musical numbers were accompanied by scenes, appropriated and amended […]
Eastman Theatre
‘The Light in the Piazza’ provides warmth and levity
Cold, wet snow was falling from dark skies over the Eastman Theatre on Friday evening, but the welcoming light inside offered a heartwarming, gorgeously well-performed, and often hilarious production of 2005’s brilliant “The Light in the Piazza.” The play is an uncommonly optimistic take on what the show’s stage director, Stephen Carr (associate artistic director of Eastman […]
