Saturday, January 23, 2010

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Opening: Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception today 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

There will be an opening reception tonight 6:00-8:00 pm.

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

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Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Skritek DVD Release Party
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Join us for the popular award-winning film from the Czech Republic, Skritek. This Syracuse Film Festival and Czech Academy Award winner is the newest addition to The Syracuse New Classics DVD label, so we're having a screening and DVD release party.

The film is an adult comedy about a butcher, his wife, his teen-age, vegetarian son, and his young daughter who befriends a mischievous imp called a Skritek.

Like the silent films of old, the whole story unfolds entirely without words. In its simplicity, playfulness and pictorial telling, the film is understandable for every audience member in the world.

Bring a can of food for the Food Bank of Central New York and receive a $1.00 coupon toward future SYRFILM admission tickets or merchandise!

SaturdaySCREENINGS: Four Little Girls (1997)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Oscar-nominated documentary about the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963 that killed four young girls; a tragic, pivotal event in the Civil Rights movement. Directed by Spike Lee.

Emily Dickinson: Journey to Individuation
Featuring Kaye Lindauer

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Noted Syracuse storyteller, Kaye Lindauer, will explore a variety of Emily Dickinson's poetry. The poet's work will be discussed in the context of the time period, including the Civil War.

Kaye currently spends her summers teaching at the Chautauqua Institution; during the rest of the year she teaches at OASIS.

Annual CMM/SSO Youth Concerto Competition Preliminary Round
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Clark Music Center
2922 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

Scholastic Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $3 students; $6 adults
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

In Scholastic Jazz Jam events, local High School and College students are invited to perform in a supportive environment backed by area professionals. Aspiring jazz instrumentalists "learn the ropes" of public performance, backed by the area's finest jazz professionals. Play tunes of your choice in a supportive atmosphere. All experience levels welcome.

Lisa Gentile with Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, Tim Burns, and Joshua Dekaney
Words and Music Songwriter Showcase

Price: $10
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Call her an urban cowgirl with soul. Lisa Gentile is a singer-songwriter who sings from the heart and plays from the hip. Time Out magazine, New York, says Lisa "inspires quite effortlessly with a stunning voice that soars and takes you along for the ride." Lisa has released three independent CDs: Becoming, the EP Three, and A Very Country Compilation, which won a 2007 Syracuse Area Music Award (SAMMY) for Best Country Recording. She is the creator and host of the popular Music Mavericks open mic series every Wednesday night at Opus Lounge in Armory Square, and producer of the Naked songwriter series. Most recently, she launched Music Heals CNY, a not-for-profit endeavor which that live acoustic music to the bedsides of patients and families healthcare facilities throughout Central New York.

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting.

The series host is singer-songwriter, author, and NPR contributor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers. Each show includes:
* A featured artist performing a full set, plus an opening set of songwriters in the round.
* The Song Schmooze, where musicians and music lovers mingle over a drink and a bite to eat.
* Plus special guests, surprise collaborations, and the Soundbite of the Night, where Rodgers shares a memorable moment from his extraordinary archive of interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Jerry Garcia, Ani DiFranco, and Dave Matthews.

Copywrite with DJ Afar, Irealz, Jukstapose, and Mage 9
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $34.50 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria, the world's first and thankfully, only, disco-cafeteria. A place where disco never dies as long as the mirror balls glint in the light of the sterno flames. Contestants have gathered for the moderately aptly named "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." The dancers are ready to show their moves, but they might not realize that tonight some of the competition will definitely be stiff.

The show is an interactive murder mystery show that gets members of the audience involved. If you love disco, and even if you despise it, this show will have you intrigued, laughing, and of course dancing, by the end of the night.

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

The Insanity of Mary Girard
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past. By the end of this haunting and highly theatrical piece, she really is insane.

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Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Stone Canoe Journal Exhbit
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

The annual display of artwork from the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York features the work of 30 artists with local ties, ranging from those with international reputations to those who have not previously published or exhibited their work.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Artist Talk
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

XL Projects
307-313 S. Clinton St., Syracuse

Artists Anne Cofer, Emily Farranto and Paul Farinacci, whose work is published in the fourth edition of Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, will be giving brief talks about their work. Cofer is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Fiber Arts/Material Studies Department in SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. She won "Best in Show" at the 2008 Everson Biennial, and her first museum solo show, "Concealed Objects," was held at the Everson Museum of Art in 2009. Farranto is a Syracuse native now based in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in LIT magazine and on the cover of Poetry magazine. She won Stone Canoe's 2010 Hedy and Michael Fawcett Visual Arts Prize. Farinacci is a professor of art at Hofstra University and is a Fulbright Scholar. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. His public commissions include the Carnegie Mellon Museum, The Royal Stock Exchange in London and the New York City Mayor's Office.

Stained Glass Series: The Rivals
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Cristina Buciu, violin; Li Li, viola

Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

Salieri Sinfonia in D Major, "Veneziana"
Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 (186a)
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364 (320d)

Kevin Moore in Recital
Joyful Noise Concert Series

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Liverpool First United Methodist Church
604 Oswego St., Liverpool

Kevin Moore plays Beethoven and Chopin piano solos. For more information, phone 315-457-5180.

Concert of Organ and Choral Music by Joseph J. McGrath
Arts At Assisi and the American Guild of Organists, Syracuse chapter
Featuring Will Headlee, William Hanley, Glenn Armstrong, and the Assumption Church Choir

Price: Free (donations accepted)
Assumption Church
812 N. Salina St., Syracuse

Music of Dr. Joseph McGrath (1889-1968) will be performed by Will Headlee, organist of Park Central Presbyterian; William Hanley, former organist of Trinity Episcopal and St. Mary's Church Baldwinsville; and Glenn Armstrong, Director of Music at Assumption Church. Choral music will be performed by the choir of Assumption Church.

Dr. McGrath was a graduate of Syracuse University, studying composition with Dr. William Berwald. He studied organ with August Wiegand, Gaston Dethier and Charles Courboin. He was organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for 40 years, and taught harmony, composition and counterpoint at SU. He was also a lecturer at the Catholic University Summer School. He was a Fellow in the American Guild of Organists, and a past dean of this organization.

Dr. McGrath received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from LeMoyne College and was cited by the National Catholic Music Educators Association for outstanding contributions to music and music education. His published compositions include more than 100 choral compositions for Catholic Church Services, several books of organ selections, a cantata, string quartets and piano compositions. He also received a Papal award in 1966, the first such in the Syracuse Diocese.

Musical Comedy with Don Malcolm
Syracuse Wurlitzer

Price: $15 adults; $2 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Don Malcolm, "The DonMan," has performed for thousands with his enthusiastic, up-beat cheery attitude. His professional career started in the Toronto Organ Grinder Restaurant, playing for families visiting for pizza and his unique musical performances. Don's specialty is making people smile, laugh, and have a great time. Don also has a serious side with a rather large repertoire of classical music and standards of the '20s up through 2010. Currently from Toronto, he is right in the middle of all the Broadway musicals that hit Toronto, and always sneaks your favorites in his programs. Don prides himself with "audience participation," where they are always encouraged to sing along! On occasion he brings his old buddy, "Clarence the Monkey" for some honkytonk music that "really blows the dust out of the pipes!" Come, enjoy a great musical treat with an entertainer that really puts "a smile on your face and a song in your heart." Having become a Syracuse favorite, you should arrive early to ensure a good seat for a night you will remember for a long, long time.

Performing Therapy
Armory Square Playwrights
Featuring Camilla Schade

Price: $7 regular, $5 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Armory Square Playhouse presents Performing Therapy, featuring actress/playwright Camilla Schade who co-wrote the piece with Kira Lallas. Performing Therapy is a one-woman, group-therapy comedy about depression. It's a wacky romp through depression, loss, displacement, dementia, and the surprise healing nature of Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes.

In Performing Therapy, a "depressively experienced" actress-turned-therapist, played by Camilla Schade, leads group therapy in an attempt to provide helpful advice and therapeutic modalities. Art Therapy with Balloon Animals, Affirmations on Post-it Notes, and Primal Humming are some of the hopeful remedies. But in her attempt to proffer relief, she gets wildly off-track relating her own poignant story of life after loss in Schuyler County. Performing Therapyconfronts the value of memory through an engaging recognition of the art of letting go.

Camilla Schade, an actor/director/teacher/playwright, has performed for Ithaca's Hangar Theatre and was last seen on the Kitchen Theatre stage in Old Times. She offers acting and improvisation classes and workshops for all ages through the Family Service Society and Pathways in Corning, Ithaca Youth Bureau, and as a Teaching Artist for the Hangar Theatre.

Playwright Kira Lallas, now a Hospice and Community Bereavement Counselor for Hospicare of Ithaca, grew up in Ithaca theatre's and co-founded the Orange Tree Theatre Company. While at Boston University, she focused on solo autobiographical writing and performance. She toured her award-winning, one-woman show, Translations of Xhosa, about her time spent in South Africa.

The Insanity of Mary Girard
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past. By the end of this haunting and highly theatrical piece, she really is insane.

Read a Review!

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Monday, January 25, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

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Music Journeys: Iva Bittova and Jonah Smith
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, students free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Recipient of the 2008 Syracuse International Film Festival's Best Actress Award for Little Girl Blue, Iva Bittova will present her unique blend of avant-Gypsy fiddling and vocals, followed by the soulful sounds of Syracuse native and master songwriter Jonah Smith.

A Treasury of Trios
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $10 adults, $5 students
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

A program featuring distinguished professional musicians from the Central New York area.

Haydn "London" Trio in G major for 2 flutes and cello
Malcolm Arnold Divertimento for flute, oboe and clarinet
Bach Trio Sonata in G major for violin, oboe and piano
Albert Roussel Trio for flute, viola and cello
Beethoven Serenade for flute, violin and viola
Brahms Horn Trio for violin, horn and piano

Performers include members of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and friends: Sara Mastrangelo, violin; Kit Dodd, viola; Gregory Wood, cello; Deborah Coble, flute; Anna Petersen Stearns, oboe; Allan Kolsky, clarinet; Michael Winter, horn; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano -- along with Joanna Wu (Jamesville-DeWitt High School senior), flute; and Katherine Zhang (Fayetteville-Manlius High School junior), flute.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Laura Enslin, soprano; Ken Meyer, guitar
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

A program of Spanish and Portuguese music, including works by Villa-Lobos, DeFalla, and others.

Rosanne Cash
LeMoyne College

Price: $45 general public
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash performs songs from her critically-acclaimed new album "The List" as well as other great hits from her career. "The List" culls song from a rundown of 100 essential American songs that her father Johnny Cash gave her in 1973.

Phone 315-445-4209 to reserve seats.

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Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

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Preview: The Price
Syracuse Stage

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

There will be a gallery reception today 5:00-7:00 pm.

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm, with a Gallery Talk at 5:30 by Claire C. Carter, co-curator of the exhibit.

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means
Redhouse

Price: $5 suggested donation
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Hurlements en faveur de Sade, Guy Debord (1952)
L'Anticoncept, Gil Wolman (1953)

This series of short films moves away from the Situationist iconic use of detourned film in order to examine the idea of the event and festival in relation to Situationist film. Prior to the formation of the Situationist International (SI), Debord made a film under the influence of the Lettrist International, a loose avant-garde poetry group under the direction of poet and filmmaker Isou Isidore. Hurlements en faveur de Sade and Gil Wolman's L'Anticoncept were both films without images.

Red House is pleased to host Lawrence Kumpf from New York City's ISSUE Project Room will be in attendance to introduce and describe these films. This is a unique opportunity for viewers to address questions directly to the film program curator.

Ciné-Tracts (1968)

The Ciné-Tracts explore another aspect of the event-festival. Each film is a short three-minute reel shot by Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, or Alain Resnais. The films were intended to be anonymous documents of the student occupation of the Sorbonne during the 1968 uprisings.

The Ciné-Tracts are exceedingly rare. This screening represents only the second public screening of the films in 16mm in the United States. Tom McDonough, Associate Professor at Binghamton University, will be on hand to discuss the Ciné-Tracts. McDonough teaches the history of contemporary art. He has written extensively on the Situationist International and on postwar French art and society; his most recent book is the anthology, The Situationists and the City (Verso, 2010). Tom is an editor at Grey Room.

Cherryholmes
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Price: $35
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

With their roots based in bluegrass, Celtic, and jazz music, Cherryholmes has stormed to the top of the music world since winning the 2005 International Bluegrass Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year. Concert opens with the Delaney Brothers.

Brandi Carlile with Gregory Alan Isakov
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

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Big Louie and the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

You and the rest of the Bangalone Gang are in deep trouble. Big Louie's been beaned by a bocci ball and now he ain't thinking so good. The gang's got to figure out what to do before arch rival gang leader "Muscles" Marinara has you rubbed out. You better move fast. Word on the street is that ruthless hitman Jake "The Weasel" is on the way.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

Preview: The Price
Syracuse Stage

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Friday, January 29, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Gallery Exhibition: James Williams II
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

James Williams II believes that the vital essence of life starts with our relationships. Without relationships we have no identity, self-worth, or defining of involvement to the world we live in. For example, a father's identity comes from his relationship with his children, just as a wife's identity comes from her relationship with her husband. It is through his relationship with God that brings his identity as a Christian and the focus of his work together. It is the purpose of Williams' work to separate the distant religious experience from the close relationship with God experience.

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall.

Storytelling: An Experiment In Visual Narrative -- Works by Pedro Roth
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

From Buenos Aires, Argentina, following two superbly triumphant solo exhibitions at the Sivori Museum and at the prestigious Recoleta Center this year, Pedro Roth comes to The Point of Contact Gallery to present "Storytelling...an experiment in visual narrative.

For this rich display of drawings that is a development of the work he presented in Argentina, "Roth invents a world of multiple figures, drawn to life in a Buenos Aires café while listening to stories about lost loves, departed pets, and friends, and the refusal to go out and love again..." writes the show's curator, Pedro Cuperman.

The Loneliness of Nature: Works by James Domroe
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Photographs of "The Loneliness of Nature" were manipulated in Photoshop to heighten and bring contrast to the starkness of the photos.

Also a short film, "How to be Happy", running time 5 min.

Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

The Imp of Love: Works by Rachel Herman
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artist Statement: My interest in photography grew out of the desire to make the ineffable effable, the impossibility of making the invisible visible. This series asks questions about how love, a very particular kind of love, can be made visible. I photograph couples, once-lovers but who are now renegotiating their relationship in a new context. Even though they aren't romantically intertwined any more, they still spend time together, sometimes compulsively—even though that time can be painful, fumblingly awkward, or confusedly poignant. They have an abiding affection for one another, but an affection that is often loaded, layered, complicated, or unrequited.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by seniors and graduate students studying photography in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts, Transmedia Department.

Cryptopocalypse: Tattoo Art of David "D.J." Rose
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

David "D.J." Rose is a tattooist and artist in the folk art tradition. He has no formal art training. His devotion to his craft has driven him deeply into the study of symbolism, as to best manifest his clients' desires to transform their lives using crude tools to apply ancient talismans. He co-owns Halo Tattoo in Syracuse, New York. He is driven to create and proclaim as is commanded "both for glory and for beauty".

The gallery is open by appointment. Phone 315-425-0405 to make an appointment.

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Women of Rookwood: The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Rookwood Pottery, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880, established itself as a commercial pottery that successfully elevated ordinary ceramic objects to a fine art status during the heyday of art pottery in America. Each unique piece was hand-painted and signed by the artist, many of whom were young women. This exhibition, which includes examples by several of these women including Sarah Sax, Fannie Auckland, Sadie Markland, Grace Young, and Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols, was selected from The Joyce and Eliot Sterling Collection in conjunction with the "Women as Visionaries, Women as Participants" Symposium scheduled for October 17.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

Read a review!

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Opening Night Reception
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 non-members, Everson members free
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Opening reception for two new exhibitions: "Tim Scott—The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture" and "The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series." Be the first to view these dynamic exhibitions! Join the vibe and have a psychedelic good time with a great mix of songs from the '60s provided by DJ Brian Oddo. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar before previewing the exhibitions. Bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye shirts, go-go boots, and mini-skirts are optional!

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The most convenient lots for the Gallery and Storer Auditorium are Lots 2 or 4 directly behind Ferrante Hall. Click here for a full campus map.

Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors with Silent Fury and Jonathan Coleman
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Die Fledermaus
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Opera Theatre
James Welsch, director

Price: $10 regular; free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The production is fully staged in English with reduced orchestra. Featured soloists are seniors Robert Brotherton, Leila Gheitu, and Emily F. Wells, and juniors David Arzt, Abigail Ottenjohn, and Gabrielle Traub.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2512.

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Derek Pollard and Derek Henderson, poets
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Derek Pollard's work has appeared in American Book Review, Colorado Review, Pleiades, Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak, and Zoland Poetry. He is Managing Editor of Barrow Street Press. Derek Henderson's poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Fence, Colorado Review, The Journal, Puerto del Sol and Bombay Gin. Together, they are co-authors of the poetry collection Inconsequentia (BlazeVOX 2009).

Salt Hill Journal Release Party
Redhouse

Price: $10 adults, $7 students
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Come celebrate the release of Salt Hill Issue 24, a journal of contemporary art and writing. Find out what all the fuss is about when you hold a copy, hot off the presses, in your hands. Entry gets you this special "black issue", a complimentary beer, and an evening chock-full of rousing words and sounds. Readings by Patrick Lawler (Feeding the Fear of the Earth, Reading a Burning Book) and Phil LaMarche (American Youth), music by Why the Wires, and more. Bands start at 9:00 pm.

Run for Your Wife
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

John Smith is your ordinary London cab driver. He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very ordinary life...with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara. One night John stops an old women from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at the hospital, he is taken to his home with Mary by a local police officer, Detective Troughton. However, that morning, he supposed to be with at his home with Barbara. After realizing his predicament, John tries to get home to Barbara while keeping both his first wife Mary and Detective Troughton from finding out about his second wife. Enlisting the help of his upstairs slacker neighbor, Stanley Gardener, John heaps one lie upon another to get back to Barbara and back on his very precise schedule. All appears to be well until another police officer, Detective Porterhouse, arrives from a neighboring district investigating the case of two cab drivers named John Smith, both mugged on the same night but having different addresses. Quick thinking Stanley exaggerates several more lies to create a new John Smith for Detective Porterhouse, while keeping the truth from Mary. As the lies pile up and craziness ensues, Stanley and John try valiantly to keep the nosy detectives busy, John's suspicious wives from running into each other, their sex lives straight and all of their stories together. In the grand tradition of Faulty Towers, Mr. Bean and The Benny Hill Show, Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.

Performance stars David Vickers, Anne Freund, Rachelle Clavin, Gerrit Vander Werff Jr., Daniel Rowlands, Greg J. Hipius, and Greg Holtham.

Dinner 6:30 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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The Insanity of Mary Girard
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past. By the end of this haunting and highly theatrical piece, she really is insane.

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Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

The Price
Syracuse Stage

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Once Upon a Time: Works of Katya Krenina
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Wild Card Exhibit: Serious Art for Children
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A new collection of works by noted illustrator and painter Connie Carroll, created for children of any age, meant to encourage an appreciation for the arts even in young children. This group of paintings bears a lighthearted and whimsical approach. The work in this series adds colorful dimension to common enjoyable experiences or fantasies for children, such as space travel or other adventures. In her artist statement, Carroll thanks "children of all ages, from one to one hundred" for joining her in exploring the fantasies depicted in these paintings.

Art: 2003-2009
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Art: 2003-2009" pays tribute to a group of artists aligned with the gallery since its inception over six years ago. The exhibit runs the gamut of artistic endeavors. Among the artists included in the show are: Lydia Benscher, Jamie Ashlaw, Eric W. Shute, A. Brooks Decker, Frank Calidonna, Harry R. Freeman-Jones, Diana Godfrey, Tom Hussey, John Dowling, Roscha Folger, Ruth Wynn, Wendy Harris, R. Jason Howard, Stephen Perrone, Kathleen Schneider, Arthur Brangman, Crystal LaPoint, Thomas Barnes, Tom Townsley, Kyle Mort, Andrea Hall, Stephen Ryan, Patrice Downes Centore, Robert Glisson, James Skvarch, and Vincent Fitches. The gallery is also planning to show works by Amy E. Bartell, Jim Dieso, Douglas Biklen, Tom Champion, Diane Lansing, Robert Carroll, Lauren Ritchie, Phil Austin, Sandy Clift, James R. Walker, Vivian Geiger, Richard Karuzas, Rudy Hellmann, Jennifer Colvin, Richard Schultz, Fred Wellner, Laura J. Wellner, Joyce Day Homan, Linda Esterley, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Mary Kester, and C. J. Hodge.

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Markings of Time and Place
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Amy Bartell: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings examining the topography of time and an ever-changing horizon
Paul Molesky: Sculptural and functional stoneware ceramics finished with clay slip and shino glazes
Ban Bacich: Mixed-media box assemblages combining fragments that invoke a narrative

Tim Scott--The Sixties: When Colour was Sculpture
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson presents the monumental steel sculptures of British artist Tim Scott along with recent ceramic sculptures from his House of Clay series. The large-scale sculptures made of painted steel and acrylic sheeting were created in the late 1960s, a time when painters and sculptors alike celebrated color as form and subject. While studying to be an architect at the Architectural Association in London (1954-59), Scott was also enrolled in classes at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he worked with the well-known sculptor Anthony Caro. He was also exposed to the work of David Smith and other prominent sculptors of the time whose creative processes involved construction and assemblage rather than traditional methods such as modeling or molding. Scott, along with Philip King, William Tucker and Isaac Witkin, became identified with a group of emerging sculptors in Britain known as the "New Generation."

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The Edge of Art: New York State Artists Series: Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present the first installment of the The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, featuring Jen Pepper: that which cannot be held. The series takes the place of the long running Biennial exhibition, which will return in 2012.

Pepper has created a site-specific installation, exploring language through an unexpected use of materials and space. Pepper describes her work in her artist statement as suggesting "...that objects and ideas are under constant transformation, randomly blending time, memory, reality and place as a transitional location ripe for imagining, just this side of dreaming."

For the past 34 years, the Everson has featured Central New York Artists in the Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition traditionally featuring about fifty artists in one group show. This year, the Everson introduces The Edge of Art: New York State Artist Series, for contemporary art exhibitions showcasing the work of artists living in New York State, particularly the Central New York Region. The new format presents small-scale focused exhibitions and site-specific installations of new work. The exhibitions will take place in the Robineau Gallery on the main level of the museum, while collaborative pieces and site-specific installations may be presented in auxiliary spaces throughout the museum including the main Rosamond Gifford Sculpture Court and the Mather Court located on the lower level.

Tesoros del Pueblo: El Arte Folklorico de Mexico/Treasures of the People: The Folk Art of Mexico
Community Folk Art Center

Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tesoros del Pueblo features folk art and photographs from the collection of Dr. Alejandro Garcia, Professor of Social Work at Syracuse University. Garcia began collecting Mexican folk art several years ago as a means to connect with his heritage. Garcia explains, "This collection, in essence, represents who I am, my pride in the richness of Mexican culture, and my celebration of the artistry of Mexican individuals who, in their carving, painting, sewing, and molding, present all of us with precious gifts."

Domestic Flourish: Works by Jen Allen
Gandee Gallery

Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jen Allen is a passionate potter. She proudly proclaims "Handcrafted pottery has the capacity to nourish the home, the hand and the mind." Her goal as an artist is to keep the handmade an integral part of the contemporary home, and her beautifully crafted pottery on view reflects this philosophy.

Allen's utilitarian pottery forms "describe contrasts between modesty and generosity, grace and awkwardness" while they relate to her love of sewing through details such as folds, seams, darts, and pillow-like handles. The exterior surfaces, inspired by a fondness for textile design, juxtapose bold pattern with quiet, glazed expanses. All of her work is created with porcelain because of the material's inherit brightness and luminosity.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer" examines the pivotal interrelationship of three mid-century artists who helped define the course of American photography: Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. This is the first full comparison of their work and exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction and metaphor. Self-taught, they helped shape the evolution of the medium as an art form. Their work is an important bridge between classic mid-century photography and hybrid artistic approaches to the medium today.

Breach of Peace: Eric Etheridge's Photographs of the Freedom Riders
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans—blacks and whites, men and women—converged on Jackson, Mississippi, to challenge state segregation laws. The Freedom Riders, as they came to be known, were determined to open up the South to civil rights: it was illegal for bus and train stations to discriminate, but most did and were not interested in change. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace."

Artist and author Eric Etheridge's exhibit, Breach of Peace, collects the mug shots of those arrested, which were only recently made public, and juxtaposes them with present-day photographs of the Riders and their recollections about the experience. The group, half black and half white (a quarter were women), was remarkably young; in their faces we see strength, courage, defiance, dignity, and, occasionally, fear.

Art Exhibition: Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

The Awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. 30,000 teen artists and writers will be recognized in their regions. 1,000 will win national awards. Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: Originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.

Windows Project: Confederacy of Dunces
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Hamilton-based Lynette K. Stephenson created an installation about New Orleans consisting of 60 hand-felted wool dunce caps. This exhibition is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) set in New Orleans, where Stephenson's family home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, and based on her previous body of paintings, The Red Cross Series, which led to the idea for this site-specific project. In this work Stephenson engages in a dialogue about present-day social issues referring to New Orleans, the tragedy of the Hurricane and the universal symbol of the Red Cross.

Alyson Shotz: Drawing Through Space
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

With the assistance of Syracuse University students, Brooklyn-based Shotz created her works on site, thus turning The Warehouse Gallery into a form of laboratory. Shotz is one of today's ground-breaking artists transforming contemporary art through a fusion of technology and handcrafted steel wire and yarn artworks. Her use of this material is a means of combining sculpture with drawing to address issues of light, space, time and motion. Strikingly beautiful, her wire sculpture in the vault and three wall drawings project optical experiences where questions of perception and misperception lead to further examination of the impact of 21st-century technology on the arts.

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SaturdaySCREENINGS: Let Freedom Sing: How music inspired the civil rights movement (2009)
ArtRage Gallery

Price: $5 suggested donation
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Recreates the Civil Rights Movement through the singers and songwriters who fought for change through their music. Features interviews with musicians and former Freedom Riders interspersed with vintage footage of protests that recreate the era, and the significance of the music. Narrated by Louis Gossett, Jr., and featuring Gladys Knight, Ruby Dee, Pete Seeger.

Recovered Voices: Enduring Masterworks of Composers Almost Silenced by the Nazis
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, SU Oratorio Society, Syracuse International Film Festival
Daniel Hege, Elisa Dekaney, conductor

Price: Free, but advance tickets recommended
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The rule of the Nazi regime invokes thoughts of profound loss and human suffering. The "Recovered Voices" event celebrates the resilience of the creative spirit of those who endured this bleak period in history and whose masterful works survived suppression to inspire future generations.

The evening's musical program will feature the works of composers Maurice Ravel, Erwin Schulhoff, and Alexander Zemlinsky, with Franz Schrekers Schwanensang performed by the SU Oratorio Society under the direction of Elisa Dekaney.

Film accompaniment to the musical program has been produced by the Syracuse International Film Festival and Owen Shaprio, the festival's artistic director. Spoken word narration will also accompany the music and display of visual art and images of life during the period in which the music was written.

The "Recovered Voices" event is a Chancellor's Leadership Project and part of the Regional Holocaust and Genocide Initiative: Resistance, Resilience and Responsibility. The goal of the initiative is to keep alive the memory and lessons of the Holocaust and past and current genocides through education and public dialogues about law, justice and ethics.

Tickets for the concert are free and available by calling the Schine Box Office at 315-443-4517. Free tickets are also available at Temple Adath Yeshurun, Temple Concord, and Congregation Beth Sholom-Chevra Shas. Free event parking will be available in the Waverly and Marion lots on Waverly Avenue, the Lehman and Harrison lots on University Avenue, and in any of the Quad lots.

Dr. Dog with The Growlers and The Silent League
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Die Fledermaus
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Syracuse University Opera Theatre
James Welsch, director

Price: $10 regular; free with SU student ID
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The production is fully staged in English with reduced orchestra. Featured soloists are seniors Robert Brotherton, Leila Gheitu, and Emily F. Wells, and juniors David Arzt, Abigail Ottenjohn, and Gabrielle Traub.

Free parking is available in Irving Garage. For more information, phone 315-443-2512.

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Beauty and the Beast
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive adaptation of the children's classic.

Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

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The Price
Syracuse Stage

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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Run for Your Wife
CNY Playhouse
Dustin M. Czarny, director

Price: Dinner theater: $27 single; $50 couple. Show only: $18 (limited availability)
Fire and Ice Banquet Hall, The Locker Room
528 Hiawatha Blvd., Syracuse

John Smith is your ordinary London cab driver. He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very ordinary life...with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara. One night John stops an old women from getting mugged and gets knocked unconscious. After being checked over at the hospital, he is taken to his home with Mary by a local police officer, Detective Troughton. However, that morning, he supposed to be with at his home with Barbara. After realizing his predicament, John tries to get home to Barbara while keeping both his first wife Mary and Detective Troughton from finding out about his second wife. Enlisting the help of his upstairs slacker neighbor, Stanley Gardener, John heaps one lie upon another to get back to Barbara and back on his very precise schedule. All appears to be well until another police officer, Detective Porterhouse, arrives from a neighboring district investigating the case of two cab drivers named John Smith, both mugged on the same night but having different addresses. Quick thinking Stanley exaggerates several more lies to create a new John Smith for Detective Porterhouse, while keeping the truth from Mary. As the lies pile up and craziness ensues, Stanley and John try valiantly to keep the nosy detectives busy, John's suspicious wives from running into each other, their sex lives straight and all of their stories together. In the grand tradition of Faulty Towers, Mr. Bean and The Benny Hill Show, Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.

Performance stars David Vickers, Anne Freund, Rachelle Clavin, Gerrit Vander Werff Jr., Daniel Rowlands, Greg J. Hipius, and Greg Holtham.

Dinner 6:30 pm, show begins at 8:00 pm.

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Death by Disco
Without a Cue Productions

Price: $34.50 includes dinner and show
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

Welcome to the Land of Oz Discoteria, the world's first and thankfully, only, disco-cafeteria. A place where disco never dies as long as the mirror balls glint in the light of the sterno flames. Contestants have gathered for the moderately aptly named "3rd Annual World Championship of Disco Championship." The dancers are ready to show their moves, but they might not realize that tonight some of the competition will definitely be stiff.

The show is an interactive murder mystery show that gets members of the audience involved. If you love disco, and even if you despise it, this show will have you intrigued, laughing, and of course dancing, by the end of the night.

For reservations, phone 315-469-6969.

The Insanity of Mary Girard
Appleseed Productions
Deborah Pearson, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

In 1790, Mary Girard is committed to an asylum. Having become pregnant by another man, her husband has had her declared legally insane. Mary sits in a chair as the "furies" dance around and impersonate people from her past. By the end of this haunting and highly theatrical piece, she really is insane.

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Wicked
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $40 to $125
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

So much happened before Dorothy dropped in.

Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One—born with emerald green skin—is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most complete and completely satisfying new musical in a long time (USA Today).

On Broadway and around the world, Wicked has worked its magic on critics and audiences alike. Winner of 20 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked is Broadway's biggest blockbuster (The New York Times).

Read a review!

The Price
Syracuse Stage

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

It's flat out great drama the way only a modern master like Arthur Miller can write it. From the author of American classics such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible, Miller's The Price is taut, truthful and deeply engaging, and belongs with the best of his plays. In an overstuffed attic apartment, two long-estranged brothers, one a cop, the other a doctor, agree to meet to sell off what remains of their deceased father's furniture and find themselves in an emotional renegotiation of the past. Regrets, resentments, and recriminations expose the high price each has paid for lost opportunities and lessons learned. A drama of redemptive power.

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