Broome Arts Mirror
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.
Downtown Singers offer concert of healing and hope
By George Basler The COVID-19 pandemic made the last few years challenging ones for the community and the Binghamton Downtown Singers and Orchestra. “There were people in the choir who absolutely lost someone close to them,” Artistic Director Marisa Crabb said. The choir also was forced to cancel [...]
In unique KNOW Theatre play, silence speaks louder than words
By George Basler Small Mouth Sounds is a play that honestly earns its label as a unique piece of work. How unique? The play barely has any dialogue. Instead, the actors use body language to tell the story and reveal their characters’ personalities, quirks and emotional struggles. The [...]
Ti-Ahwaga Players looking to spell fun with Tony-winning musical
By George Basler Spelling bees, whether you consider them competitions or quaint rituals, are a tradition as old as American education itself. Generations of kids have participated in them from school contests to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Even in an age of spell-check and other electronic [...]
Reliable laugh-getter opens Chenango River season
By George Basler Mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, slamming doors and a nutty plot are all key elements of a good farce, and Lend Me a Tenor has them in abundance, said Zach Curtis, producing artistic director of the Chenango River Theatre, which will open its season with the play [...]
String Band to share traditional music at coffeehouse
On Saturday (May 20), the Cranberry Coffeehouse will present The Old Shoe String Band with John Thomson, Janet Nieburg and Jeff Bronfeld. The program will feature a wide variety of traditional music on fiddle, banjo, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, autoharp, bowed psaltery, guitar, penny whistle, harmonica, concertina, bass and percussion. [...]
BLAST celebrates ‘golden oldies’ at the Cider Mill Stage
By George Basler Like a hamburger at the drive-in or a double dip sundae at the ice cream stand, the musical Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream is a prime example of “comfort food.” The show, which opens Friday (May 19) and runs for three weekends at the [...]
Auditions set for Savoyards’ summer show
Auditions will be held May 19 and 21 at Trinity Memorial Church Hall, 118 Oak St., Binghamton, for the Summer Savoyards’ July performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta “Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse.” Appointments can be scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday or 1-4 p.m. Sunday at www.summersavoyards.org/auditions. [...]
Philharmonic will take audiences to a galaxy far, far away with ‘Star Wars’ scores
By George Basler The Binghamton Philharmonic will celebrate an iconic entertainment franchise and salute an iconic movie composer Thursday (May 4) in the final concert of the 2022-23 season. The franchise is Star Wars, created by George Lucas that began as a 1977 film before morphing into a cultural [...]
‘Major league’ violinist joins Philharmonic for classical finale
By George Basler The Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra will conclude its Classical Series on Saturday (April 29) with the performance of three major symphonic works and the appearance of a violinist who has gained international renown. The concert, titled “Northern Lights,” will take place at Broome County's Forum Theatre [...]
Broadway songs get new twist at Pride scholarship fundraiser
By George Basler A gallery of well-known local performers will give a new twist to some old Broadway songs with a special cabaret-style performance, Twisted Broadway, Saturday (April 29) at the Cider Mill Stage in Endicott. The cabaret, sponsored by the Binghamton Pride Coalition, will raise money to [...]
‘Rent’ opens Friday at Binghamton University with all-student cast
By George Basler Once every decade or so, a Broadway show opens and becomes a headline-grabbing news event and cultural landmark as well as a major hit. Oklahoma! fit the bill when it opened at the height of World War II. So did Hair, which captured the hippie, flower [...]
Ti-Ahwaga steps into the batter’s box with provocative play
By George Basler The prize-winning play Take Me Out, now being presented by the Ti-Ahwaga Community Players, is a baseball story with a twist, focuseing on what happens when a mixed-race superstar centerfielder comes out publicly as gay. “What I like is that it's beautifully written. It’s also about [...]
Madrigal Choir to visit Broadway
By George Basler In its more than 40-year history, the Madrigal Choir of Binghamton has performed everything from spirituals to Medieval chants, from traditional Christmas melodies to 16th century antiphonal music. Now the choir is taking on Broadway with “The American Songbook: Broadway Tunes from Gershwin to Hamilton” to [...]
TCO presents Mozart masterwork at Forum
By George Basler Tri-Cities Opera will conclude its 2022-23 season with a work that a 2017 BBC Music Magazine poll named as the greatest opera ever written. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Figaro marks “our full return to big, grand productions” with glorious costumes and sets, TCO [...]
Fiddler Ball to lead program at Cranberry Coffeehouse
"Upstate Crossroads," a concert by fiddler Tim Ball and guitarist/singer Helen Kuhar, will start at 7:30 p.m. Saturday (April 15) at the Cranberry Coffeehouse at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton, 183 Riverside Drive, Binghamton. After 20 years performing in Celtic and contra dance bands and a lifetime [...]
