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.
Tony Award congratulations to Broome County’s own Nocciolino
Among the producers of Kinky Boots, the Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein show that took home the Best Musical Tony Award June 9 is the IPN (Independent Presenters Network), co-founded by Albert Nocciolino, president of the Broadway Theatre League. The show also received Tony’s for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) [...]
Have you been art-full lately?
My son and I have been busy rehearsing with the Summer Savoyards. How about you? Are you in rehearsal, too? Or have you been attending performance and/or visiting exhibits? Maybe you've been just relaxing on the deck with a cool, refreshing adult beverage and contemplating the meaning of art [...]
Art is everywhere, even in cemeteries
I like cemeteries, especially the old ones. They're time machines, filled with artwork and stories. I'm as curious about the people who carved grave monuments as I am about those who lie beneath and around them. On a recent sunny Saturday, I got a chance to ride through Spring Forest Cemetery, [...]
Strong cast elevates 'Vieux Carre' at Know Theatre
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 [...]
Ti-Ahwaga's 'Avenue Q' is the 'in' place to be
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 [...]
Elvis never leaves the building in Cider Mill's 'All Shook Up'
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 [...]
Plans underway to honor BCC's Zuccolo
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 [...]
Was your weekend art-full?
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 [...]
Jenkins' 'Requiem' highlights Downtown Singers' moving tribute to founder
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 [...]
Were the arts part of your holiday?
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 [...]
Last chance to see Lucia's thought-provoking exhibit
Reviewed by Nancy Oliveri A closing reception and artist's talk for Yvonne Lucia's "RE-Visioning Mary: Contemporary Icons of the Feminine Divine” will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today (May 23) at the Orazio Salati Gallery, 204 State St., Binghamton. The collection of paintings and text came to life when [...]
Concert is fitting finale for BCC choral director Gerald Grahame
Reviewed by Nancy Oliveri After 26 years as director of the Broome Community College Choir and its wonderful offshoot, the BCC Chamber Singers, Gerald Grahame is retiring. Maestro Grahame took his final bow last Wednesday night (May 15) in a free concert, “Madrigals and Modern Music,” in the school’s Little [...]
Good night, Mr. Zuccolo — beloved BCC theater professor remembered
By Nancy Oliveri Binghamton lost a piece of its soul yesterday (May 15 ) when Angelo Zuccolo died suddenly of a heart attack. Many people remember “Ange” from his long tenure at Broome Community College as theater professor and director of department productions at the Little Theatre there, but [...]
2013 BU Studio season ends on a note of levity
Reviewed by Lory Martinez The Binghamton University Theatre Department's final 2013 studio plays, presented this past weekend (May 10-12), ended the semester in a brilliantly lighthearted way. Christopher Durang’s For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, directed by Gabriela Mrvov, and Sam Wolfson’s Boy Meets Girl: A Young Love Story, directed by [...]
WSKG broadcasts Serling Video Festival winners Friday
By George Basler The Rod Serling Video Festival began 19 years ago as a local contest for young video makers in Broome County. Nowadays, however, the locals have some competition. This year’s entrants come from across New York state and from as way away as Tacoma, Wash., and Port [...]
