Broome Arts Mirror – Local Theatre Reviews
The Broome Arts Mirror is a group of volunteers affiliated with the Broome County Arts Council who write previews and reviews about local performances and arts shows. For inquiries, including having someone review your local production, please contact us at bamirror@broomearts.org.
Coping with COVID: TCO takes innovative approach
EDITOR's NOTE: In these distressing times, we need the arts more than ever, but the pandemic has wreaked havoc with performance and exhibition schedules. Over the past few weeks, BAMirror writer George Basler has been reporting on how local arts organizations are "Coping with COVID." By George Basler Tri-Cities [...]
Coping with COVID: Madrigal Choir and Downtown Singers work to keep going
EDITOR's NOTE: In these distressing times, we need the arts more than ever, but the pandemic has wreaked havoc with performance and exhibition schedules. Over the next few weeks, BAMirror writer George Basler will be reporting on how local arts organizations are "Coping with COVID." By George Basler The [...]
Coping with COVID: EPAC, Goodwill regroup and forge ahead
EDITOR's NOTE: In these distressing times, we need the arts more than ever, but the pandemic has wreaked havoc with performance and exhibition schedules. Over the next few weeks, BAMirror writer George Basler will be reporting on how local arts organizations are "Coping with COVID." By George Basler EPAC [...]
Coping with COVID: KNOW and Ti-Ahwaga Players adapt to stay active
EDITOR's NOTE: In these distressing times, we need the arts more than ever, but the pandemic has wreaked havoc with performance and exhibition schedules. Over the next several weeks, BAMirror writer George Basler will be reporting on how local arts organizations are "Coping with COVID." By George Basler The [...]
Coping with COVID: BPO scrambles to preserve season
EDITOR's NOTE: In these distressing times, we need the arts more than ever, but the pandemic has wreaked havoc with performance and exhibition schedules. Over the next several weeks, BAMirror writer George Basler will be reporting on how local arts organizations are "Coping with COVID." By George Basler The [...]
Another Day on the Broome Art Trail
The following rural travel guide for Broome Art Trail 2020 was written by Connie Barnes, Artisan Gallery Retail Manager and Broome Art Trail Site Coordinator After a very successful and pleasant drive last week, we struck out this past Saturday on the 2020 Broome Art Trail to explore a [...]
One Day on the Broome Art Trail
The following rural travel guide for Broome Art Trail 2020 was written by Connie Barnes, Artisan Gallery Retail Manager and Broome Art Trail Site Coordinator I’ve always loved the fall art trail events in our region. Every year I’ve made it a point to travel the Susquehanna County Art [...]
New BCO music director plans diverse programs
By George BaslerEvan Meccarello’s musical tastes run a wide gamut from Handel and Ravel to hip hop and rap.Asked to name composers at the top of his listening list if he was marooned on a desert island, the Rochester-based conductor and violinist names Brahms and Bach.But he also names [...]
Art Connects Us All – June 2020 Virtual Exhibition
Jaleel Campbell “In all my illustrations, I’m trying to give my modern interpretation of what the Emerald City Sequence [from the movie The Wiz] means to me. I want these images to be in the heads of the black people and children especially, so they grow up [...]
Get your ears out: KNOW Theatre goes on the air with audio plays
By George BaslerThe fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down the local community theater scene is one more reason to bemoan 2020 which has been, to paraphrase a T-shirt I bought, a truly “sucky” year.That’s why a project being launched by the Binghamton-based KNOW Theatre is welcome news [...]
Congratulations to 2020 UCF grant recipients
By Barb Van Atta The Broome County Arts Council (BCAC) is awarding $225,225 in United Cultural Funds (UCF) grants this year to 30 local arts organizations, community non-profits and individual artists. That’s the largest number of recipients in the past 24 years, said BCAC Executive Director Nancy Barno Reynolds. [...]
Ti-Ahwaga’s ‘Spamalot’ provides laughs galore
Reviewed by George Basler Spamalot begins with a quick summary of the good old days of the Middle Ages when plague, pestilence, wars and more plague were the order of the day. Not exactly a laugh riot, but don’t tell that to the inspired cast of zanies now on [...]
Summer Savoyard actors delight in dark Irish comedy at the Bundy
EDITOR's NOTE: Due to concerns about the coronavirus, this weekend's performances (March 13-15) have been canceled. Patrons who have prepaid for tickets will be contacted. By Katherine Karlson Nothing will get you into the spirit of the Emerald Isle and all things Irish ahead of St. Patrick’s Day better [...]
Strong EPAC cast tackled non-traditional musical
EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to a computer glitch, this review, originally published on Feb. 16, was erased from Broome Arts Mirror. It is being reprinted (in updated form) for archival purposes. By George Basler Songs for a New World is not a show in which audiences see spectacular dancing or [...]
One chance remains to catch EPAC’s out-of-the-world twist on Shakespeare
Reviewed by George Basler “Oh, what brave new world that has such people in it” is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous, and quoted, lines. Little did the Bard know that, one day, that passage from The Tempest could refer to a hologram, a monstrous cybernetic-controlled creature and a [...]
