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.
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 [...]
Cider Mill farce finds humor in efforts to bring ‘GWTW’ to the screen
By George Basler There’s no denying that, since its premiere in 1939, Gone with the Wind has found its niche in American popular culture. Even people who have never seen the film, or read the Margaret Mitchell novel upon which it’s based, have at least a passing knowledge [...]
KNOW Theatre to take funny, heartbreaking look at a tortured relationship
By George Basler American playwright Sharr White is known for weaving dark humor into painfully sad situations. That’s certainly the case with Annapurna, which had successful runs in Los Angeles and Off Broadway in New York a few years ago. The play “covers a lot of bases: love, loss, [...]
BCAC announces 2023 UCF recipients
The Broome County Arts Council (BCAC) has announced $259,110 in 2023 United Cultural Fund (UCF) awards to 21 local artists, arts organizations and community non-profits. Applicant statistics in Broome County reflected a nationwide picture, according to BCAC, with a greater number of medium-size and large arts organizations seeking deeper [...]
Phelps to host retrospective of local playwright Judith Present’s works
By George Basler Judith Present calls herself “a storyteller. And for more than 40 years, the Hancock-based playwright has been telling stories in plays she has written and performed across the region. Her specialty is creating dramatic monologues in which characters reveal the fears, feelings and hopes present [...]
Hills of Endicott will be alive with ‘The Sound of Music’
By George Basler After more than six decades of immense popularity, The Sound of Music has earned its place in the pantheon of great Broadway musicals. “It’s a show everyone loves,” said Patrick Foti, artistic director at the Endicott Performing Arts Center, which will stage the show Thursday through [...]
Binghamton Philharmonic’s musical tasting menu harkens back to heyday of BC Pops
By George Basler A mixture of “bonbons, greatest hits, humor and fun” is how Executive Director Paul Cienniwa describes the Binghamton Philharmonic’s upcoming “Pops at the Forum” concert Saturday (March 25) at the Broome County Forum Theatre in downtown Binghamton. The goal is “to revisit the style of [...]
