BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC John Fagan has tamed many a shrew in his nearly 20 years as Producing Director of the Upstate Shakespeare Festival. That’s why, for the first time in seven years, Fagan handed over the metaphoric whip...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Invigorated by weeks of 10-hour days of rehearsals and countless other tasks beholden to an Artistic Director’s role, Jenna Tamisiea Elser is exhausted, but gloriously liberated by her art. As co-founder of Glow Lyric Theatre,...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Warehouse Theatre’s Upstate Shakespeare Festival under the tutelage of Producing Director John Fagan spins a valiant and thoroughly engrossing and entertaining “The Winter’s Tale” for its 24th summer season opener in Falls Park on...
BY KATE ROARK DRAMA CRITIC “Love Never Dies,” delivers everything you want from an Andrew Lloyd Webber this week through June 17)at the Peace Center. A sequel to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, this musical has all the music of the night,...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Nuclear secrets, espionage, a murder and love conspire for a delectable evening of hilarity and chaos in Centre Stage’s period dramedy “Red Herring.” Combing the tropes of noir detective stories, Hitchcock films and spy novels,...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Two well to-do couples have a civil meeting to discuss an altercation that occurred earlier in the day between their two 11-year-old boys, Benjamin and Henry, which left the latter with two broken teeth. What...
