Saturday, October 29, 2005

Findings
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The works of 12 senior painting majors in the Department of Art will be on display on the first floor of the Shaffer Art Building. Painters whose works will be displayed include Jonathan Benedict, Emily Davenport, Emily Dierkes, Brenda Edwards, Eva Furcinito, Dale Harney, Lara Kahan, Erin Kilgore, Jared Maites, Scott Manning, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Desira Pesta.

Paid parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone 315-443-1308.

See it With Different Eyes
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Robert Carroll: photography
Liliya Lifanova: still lifes
Angelo Puccia: sculpture
Eric W. Shite: paintings
Sculpture exhibit by the clients of Enable, created under the guidance of Angelo Puccia

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Classics Series: Watts Plays MacDowell
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Andre Watts, piano

Price: $16-$50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses
MacDowell Piano Concerto No. 2
Brahms Symphony No. 1

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Audience-interactive version of the classic story.

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Beauty and the Beast
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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The Odd Couple
Singers Dessert Theater

Price: $18 regular, $16 seniors/students 18 and under
Singers Dessert Theater
1345 Milton Ave, Solvay

Neil Simon comedy about two divorced male roommates with opposite personalities. For more information, phone 315-484-SHOW.

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The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

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Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A futuristic story of the creation of robots that eventually become sentient and rise up against their human creators.

Read a review!

Real Love
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Drama Club

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Can real love win in a world of fear and politics? A retelling of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus tells what happens when 50 sisters break a marriage contract promising them to their 50 cousins. The men catch up with the runaway brides and a battle of the sexes begins.

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Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Sunday, October 30, 2005

Findings
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The works of 12 senior painting majors in the Department of Art will be on display on the first floor of the Shaffer Art Building. Painters whose works will be displayed include Jonathan Benedict, Emily Davenport, Emily Dierkes, Brenda Edwards, Eva Furcinito, Dale Harney, Lara Kahan, Erin Kilgore, Jared Maites, Scott Manning, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Desira Pesta.

Paid parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone 315-443-1308.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

MFA Reading Series
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Jabberwocky Cafe, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Come hear the Syracuse MFA students in creative writing show their stuff.

Free on-street parking.

Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Sweet Honey in the Rock

Price: $10 general public, $8 SU faculty and staff; $3 students with SU ID
Goldstein Auditorium, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Entering their fourth decade of creating "music with a conscience," the women of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a Grammy Award-winning a cappella ensemble, weave together striking vocal harmonies and messages for change from the many traditions of African American music: blues, spirituals, gospel hymns, African chants, rap, reggae, hip hop, ancient lullabies, and jazz improvisation. Tickets are available at the Schine Student Box Office, 315-443-4517.

This appearance is part of Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival celebrating interdisciplinary thinking, imagining, and creating. The theme this fall is "borders."

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Music of Jacob Obrecht (C. 1451-1505)
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse
Joyce Irwin, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $8 students/seniors
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

A contemporary and musical forerunner of Josquin, Obrecht lived in the Low Countries and in Italy, writing masses, motets, songs(in his native Dutch) and instrumental music. It has been said that the "boundless exuberance" of his music ranks it with the greatest of his time. Featured in the program will be his groundbreaking mass based on the popular Italian song Fortuna Desperata. Viol prelude beginning at 3:30.

George Winston: A Solo Piano Concert

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

For tickets, phone 315-436-2121.

Four Short Plays
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Armory Square Playhouse will present script-in-hand readings of four original, short plays by three area writers as part of its continuing series of presentations of new plays by local playwrights.

The first of the four plays, Pay It Forward, by Vicki L Wilson is a brief, experimental e-mail exchange that includes a touch of devastating retribution in its last message. The Human Condition, the second play by Wilson, introduces eight people in a diner who contemplate much more than the breakfast menu. Wilson is Interim Assistant Director of University Publications at Colgate University. She is a produced playwright and published poet and short fiction writer.

David Feldman's 10-minute long Uncle Edgar's Will is a comedy with a surprise ending about a young man, in love and in debt, who finds himself unexpectedly cut out of his wealthy uncle's will. Feldman is Artistic Director of Armory Square Playhouse. His plays have been produced most recently at Ithaca's Kitchen Theatre and also in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles and Syracuse.

The final play for the reading will be First Love by Donna Stuccio. In this drama, two former high school sweethearts meet after 30 years. Their innocent first attachment had been severed as a result of a natural disaster, and now decades of loss force them to confront the emotional toll of that earlier parting. Stuccio is a long standing member of the Armory Square Playwrights Unit. Her Blue Moon and The Job premiered at Salt City Playhouse. Blue Moon was selected for publication in the Journal of Women and Criminal Justice. Also an actress, Stuccio recently appeared in the Redhouse production of Life X Three.

A talkback discussion with the authors will follow each reading.

Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A futuristic story of the creation of robots that eventually become sentient and rise up against their human creators.

Read a review!

Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

Beauty and the Beast
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Read a Review!

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

The Sound of Music
Theatre '90

Price: $22 regular; $14 children under 13
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Read a Review!

The Odd Couple
Singers Dessert Theater

Price: $18 regular, $16 seniors/students 18 and under
Singers Dessert Theater
1345 Milton Ave, Solvay

Neil Simon comedy about two divorced male roommates with opposite personalities. For more information, phone 315-484-SHOW.

Read a review!

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Monday, October 31, 2005

Findings
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The works of 12 senior painting majors in the Department of Art will be on display on the first floor of the Shaffer Art Building. Painters whose works will be displayed include Jonathan Benedict, Emily Davenport, Emily Dierkes, Brenda Edwards, Eva Furcinito, Dale Harney, Lara Kahan, Erin Kilgore, Jared Maites, Scott Manning, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Desira Pesta.

Paid parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone 315-443-1308.

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Findings
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The works of 12 senior painting majors in the Department of Art will be on display on the first floor of the Shaffer Art Building. Painters whose works will be displayed include Jonathan Benedict, Emily Davenport, Emily Dierkes, Brenda Edwards, Eva Furcinito, Dale Harney, Lara Kahan, Erin Kilgore, Jared Maites, Scott Manning, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Desira Pesta.

Paid parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone 315-443-1308.

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Visiting Artist Talk
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Todd Solondz, filmmaker

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Todd Solondz, (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling) will introduce his latest film Palindromes and will discuss his work as a film director, writer, and producer. He won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996 and many other awards. In 1998, Happiness, which he wrote and directed, won the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and many other awards as well. Solondz also wrote and directed Storytelling, released in January 2002, which was screened at Cannes, the New York Film Festival, and Sundance.

Visiting Artist Lecture
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Dottie Attie

Price: Free
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

According to Art in America, "Dottie Attie dedicates herself to the exquisite mimicry of the old masters suaveness of facture and evenness of the hand. Her aim is to achieve a narrative effect to suggest the almost illicit excitement of the viewer in the act of perception. Beyond its actual story content, Atties narrative paintings imply a deeply voyeuristic gaze whose target is trapped in a small rectangle of painted matter."

Parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone Kathy Tills at 315-443-2186 or email kmtills@syr.edu.

Valaam Ensemble

Price: Free-will offering
St. David's Episcopal Church
13 Jamar Dr., Dewitt

The Valaam Ensemble was organized in 1993 by five male professional singers. Their concerts feature the rich voices of the singers without any instrumental accompaniment. The repertoire consists of liturgical singing and many Russian folk songs, in the rich musical tradition of Northern Russia. Included in this concert will be chants in Znameny, Valaam, Bulgarian, and Greek styles, and a selection of Russian folk songs.

During the summer the singers may be heard on Valaam singing at the Monastery services and performing for many thousands of pilgrims, tourists and honored guests when they visit the island. At other times they are in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The group has previously toured in Russia, Finland, England and the US, including its visit to St. David's in November 2003, where they sang to a highly appreciative overflow crowd. The purpose of their tours is to present to the audience the rich musical heritage and distinct tradition of Russian Church and folk singing. They write, "We are sure that the ancient Valaam Monastery traditional liturgical singing as well as the Russian folk music will reach deep into the listener's heart and soul and foster the friendship and understanding between the people of different countries."

Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences
Ulali: First Nations Female A Cappella Trio

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Ulali is widely considered the first native women's group to create a unique musical sound from their traditional roots and contemporary experiences as First Nations women. Their music is political, humorous, and powerful and speaks eloquently about the accomplishments and struggles of First Nations peoples. The trio has toured and recorded with the Indigo Girls and has been featured on soundtracks of Smoke Signals (Miramax) and the documentary Native Americans (Turner).

This appearance is part of Syracuse Symposium, a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival celebrating interdisciplinary thinking, imagining, and creating. The theme this fall is "borders."

Hairspray
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Hairspray takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, where the question comes up: Can a big girl, with big hair and bigger dreams, change the world.

Read a review!

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

Findings
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The works of 12 senior painting majors in the Department of Art will be on display on the first floor of the Shaffer Art Building. Painters whose works will be displayed include Jonathan Benedict, Emily Davenport, Emily Dierkes, Brenda Edwards, Eva Furcinito, Dale Harney, Lara Kahan, Erin Kilgore, Jared Maites, Scott Manning, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Desira Pesta.

Paid parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone 315-443-1308.

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Is It Art?
Everson Museum of Art
Featuring Judith Meighan

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

Professor of Art History Judith Meighan will place the Aftermarket exhibit in the context of art history and the museum environment.

Phone Pam McLaughlin at 315-474-6064 to reserve a space.

Bill Molenhof Jazz Vibraphone Clinic/Concert
Onondaga Community College

Gordon Student Center, room 204
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Bill Molenhof's recordings and publications receive frequent airplay and public performance throughout the world, and are administrated by Mark, Cexton, MTS, Warner Bros., and Kendor Music companies. Bill has recorded three albums as a leader: Beach Street Years, All Pass By, and Do You Speak Vibe? (Yes, I Marimba).

For more information, visit www.sunyocc.edu/~bridger or call 315-498-2208.

Civic Morning Musicals
Christopher Dranchek, flute; Patricia DeAngelis, piano

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

Music of Mozart, Prokofiev, Bacon.

Piano Four-Hands with Pianists Ida Trebicka and Kevin Moore
Onondaga Community College

Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Terrance Hayes, poetry
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Reading is preceded by a question and answer session from 3:45-4:30 p.m.

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Hairspray
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Hairspray takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, where the question comes up: Can a big girl, with big hair and bigger dreams, change the world.

Read a review!

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Thursday, November 3, 2005

Findings
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The works of 12 senior painting majors in the Department of Art will be on display on the first floor of the Shaffer Art Building. Painters whose works will be displayed include Jonathan Benedict, Emily Davenport, Emily Dierkes, Brenda Edwards, Eva Furcinito, Dale Harney, Lara Kahan, Erin Kilgore, Jared Maites, Scott Manning, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Desira Pesta.

Paid parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone 315-443-1308.

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

On the Wild Side
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Peter Allen: drawings
Lisa McLaughlin: wildlife watercolors
Sheila Smith: Animal Metaphors
Leigh Yardley: Abstracts of Changing Land
Rob Morache: copper scuptures

Contemporary Film Series: Czech Dream
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Members and students$3; non-members $4
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

An original, cheeky treatise on capitalism, Czech Dream follows two film students who used a state grant to promote the opening of an entirely fictitious big-box mega-market in a Prague field. The resulting scandal, alternately hilarious and discomfiting, illuminates the waking nightmare of consumerism in a country still adjusting to the strengths and pitfalls of the concept, and has sparked debates over the globalization of goods and the loss of cultural identity.

Directed by Vit Klusak & Filip Remunda; Czech Republic, 87 minutes, 2004.

Immigrant Life: A Memoir of the Lower East Side
University Neighbors Lecture Series
Featuring Sanford Sternlicht

Price: $10 regular, $5 with student ID
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Noted author and SU professor Sanford Sternlicht will discus the immigrant experience in the context of his own childhood in New York City's Lower East Side. Between the 1880s and the mid 1920s, nearly two million Jewish men, women and children from Eastern Europe passed through the neighborhood of Sternlicht's childhood. His talk will draw upon his recent book, Tenement Saga, which examines the idea of a new "Jewish Homeland," and issues of Jewish immigrant life.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive mystery dinner theater.

Hairspray
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Hairspray takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, where the question comes up: Can a big girl, with big hair and bigger dreams, change the world.

Read a review!

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Real Love
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Drama Club

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Can real love win in a world of fear and politics? A retelling of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus tells what happens when 50 sisters break a marriage contract promising them to their 50 cousins. The men catch up with the runaway brides and a battle of the sexes begins.

Read a review!

Friday, November 4, 2005

Findings
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The works of 12 senior painting majors in the Department of Art will be on display on the first floor of the Shaffer Art Building. Painters whose works will be displayed include Jonathan Benedict, Emily Davenport, Emily Dierkes, Brenda Edwards, Eva Furcinito, Dale Harney, Lara Kahan, Erin Kilgore, Jared Maites, Scott Manning, Brendon Palmer-Angell and Desira Pesta.

Paid parking is available in the Comstock Avenue lot. For more information, phone 315-443-1308.

Jack White Art Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

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

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Flood of Florence Photos
Syracuse University School of Art and Design
Featuring Works of Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna

Price: Free
Office of the Dean, 200 Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Kraczyna teaches printmaking and art-on-paper classes for the studio arts program at SU's Division of International Programs Abroad Florence Center. He is the founder and past director of Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking in Florence, where he taught techniques of color etching. Kraczyna co-authored I Segni Incisi, the first Italian textbook on the history and techniques of etching. He has directed "Studio for Color Etching" workshops in Barga, Lucca and at the International Symposium for Color Etching at Palacky University, Czech Republic. His work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows in the United States, Italy, Germany, England, Mexico, Columbia, Czech Republic and Japan, and is represented in the Uffizi Print Collection. Kraczyna holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Paid parking is available in the Irving Avenue garage.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Waterlog: The Beach Series
Light Work Gallery
Featuring works of Toby Old

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The black and white images of this exhibition illustrate Toby Old's ability to capture extraordinary moments in human action and social and cultural experiences as they unfold.

2005 Light Work Grants Exhibit
Light Work Gallery
Featuring Works by Luke Buffenmyer, Doug DuBois, and Steven Skopik

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibit features the work of the recipients of the 31st Annual Light Work Grants in Photography. The three winners are all Central New York residents.

Photo Images - Three Views
Associated Artists of Syracuse

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Featuring the photography of Vivian Geiger, John Keller and Richard Lewis, each of whom reveal their unique vision.

Vivian Geiger works mostly in color, using special papers or enhanced her photos with original artwork.

John Keller has considered himself a photographer since childhood when he first used a Brownie camera. He shoots in color and black&white, addressing varied subject matter, including still life and portraits.

Richard Lewis works in color, primarily nature and landscape photography. A favorite location is the Tibbets Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

On the Wild Side
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Peter Allen: drawings
Lisa McLaughlin: wildlife watercolors
Sheila Smith: Animal Metaphors
Leigh Yardley: Abstracts of Changing Land
Rob Morache: copper scuptures

Mean to (All of) Me: A Codependent Songbook
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Joseph Dowing, Maria DeAngelis, Carole Brzozowski, Sandra Hurd, and Hanna Richardson

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A cabaret-style revue of the uneasy side of love. For reservations, phone 315-251-1151.

Folkus Project
The Atkinson Family

Price: $12
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Atkinson Family hails from the rugged hill country of the Western Adirondack Mountain Region in New York State. Performing together as a band since 1999, the group focuses on family harmony singing, solid picking and in their original songs, creating their own brand of high lonesome. The band's vocal arrangements emphasize bluesy, powerful, natural voices, while instrumentally they pound out traditional sounds with an authentic mountain vibe to satisfy the bluegrass aficionado.

Dick Atkinson fronts the band with a blues inflected banjo style, also singing lead and harmony vocals. Mother and daughter, Shelene and Liza Atkinson, show off warm, powerful voices on lead and harmony work and both back up the band on rhythm guitar. Adam Atkinson, the oldest sibling in the family, plays mandolin. Bassist James Rooney gives the band a distinctive groove. Fiddler and multi-instrumentalist Doug Bartlett, an alum of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and a 20-year veteran of the music business, joined the group in the summer of 2004.

In September 2004, the Atkinson Family won the band showcase contest at the Thomas Point Beach Festival in Maine. The Atkinsons were the first band from the United States to win in seven years. The band has been the guest performer for the US Consulate General in Quebec City, Quebec, and received honorable mention in Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand contest.

Michael McFee, poet
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A reading by poet Michael McFee, author of Earthly.

Member of the Wedding
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers follows 12-year-old Frankie as she enters adolescence in the steamy summer of 1944 in Georgia. With her older brother's impending marriage day approaching, fantasy, romance and real life collide as Frankie deals with the trials and tribulations of growing up and letting go.

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The Wizard of Oz
Vineyard Theatre Arts

Price: $20 regular, $16 students/seniors
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Brains. Heart. Courage. Follow the yellow brick road with us as we explore the American classic.

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Hairspray
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Hairspray takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, where the question comes up: Can a big girl, with big hair and bigger dreams, change the world.

Read a review!

Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A futuristic story of the creation of robots that eventually become sentient and rise up against their human creators.

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Real Love
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Drama Club

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Can real love win in a world of fear and politics? A retelling of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus tells what happens when 50 sisters break a marriage contract promising them to their 50 cousins. The men catch up with the runaway brides and a battle of the sexes begins.

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Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

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Lend Me a Tenor
Syracuse University Drama Department
Black Box Players

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

Saturday, November 5, 2005

On the Wild Side
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Peter Allen: drawings
Lisa McLaughlin: wildlife watercolors
Sheila Smith: Animal Metaphors
Leigh Yardley: Abstracts of Changing Land
Rob Morache: copper scuptures

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Off the Wall
Associated Artists

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

The annual holiday sale show features the work of approximately two dozen artists, in a variety of media, which are available for viewing and ready for sale. During this show only, purchased artwork can be taken home immediately. A portion of each sale goes to support the library, which is currently undergoing renovation.

Small Hands, Big Spirits: Art from the Onondaga Nation School
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The exhibit will feature works by students in Chris Homer's art classes at the Onondaga Nation School as well as works by students in Jeff Capella's technology classes. Both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art will be featured. Artwork by the teachers will also be on display. The Onondaga
Nation School serves students in grades kindergarten through eighth.

Africa: Arts and Inspirations
Community Folk Art Center

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

An exhibition featuring art from and inspired by Africa.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Faculty Show
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

The xxhibition features over 90 works by 51 current Syracuse University professors from the College of Visual and Performing Arts' Departments of Art, Design and Foundation in the School of Art and Design and the Department of Transmedia. The exhibition presents various styles and media, creating a diverse survey of the faculty's current work.

The Artist Revealed: Artists Portraits and Self-Portraits
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Artists in the exhibition (in a range of media) are Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Leonard Baskin, Paul Cezanne, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Edward Manet, Reginald Marsh, and Edward Steichens.

Richard English: Pastoral Perceptions -- An Exhibition of Watercolors: 1982-2005
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The words that come to mind immediately when describing the work of Cazenovia-based watercolor artist, Richard English, are the same words that describe the man, Richard English; quiet, thoughtful, reflective. There is a wonderful symbiotic relationship between the man and his watercolors. His deep attachment to the rural landscape, especially Upstate New York and the low country sea coast of South Carolina, is elegantly captured in his masterfully executed works. There is an aura of ease and relaxation that is evident in the presence of both the artist and his landscapes. His paintings are realistic, employing both the wet-in-wet and dry brush techniques of traditional transparent watercolors. English has been painting since the early 1950's and although he's a mainly self-taught artist, his work as an engineer has influenced both his technique and his style.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
SSO Wind Ensemble

Price: Free
Mundy Branch Library
1204 S. Geddes St., Syracuse

Mean to (All of) Me: A Codependent Songbook
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Joseph Dowing, Maria DeAngelis, Carole Brzozowski, Sandra Hurd, and Hanna Richardson

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A cabaret-style revue of the uneasy side of love. For reservations, phone 315-251-1151.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Musicians from Marlboro

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

Beethoven String Trio No. 3 in D major, op. 9, no. 2
Berg Lyric Suite
Dvorak String Sextet in A major, op. 48

Well-Aged Words
Open Hand Theater
Featuring Bruce Coville

Price: $20
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Award-winning author Bruce Coville is a remarkable storyteller. He is best known for his work with children. This is a rare opportunity to spend an adult evening with him. Bruce's performance at Well Aged Words is a culmination of a whole day honoring and featuring his notable work. in addition, the museum will be featuring an exhibition of original illustrations from his books.

The Secret of the Puppet's Book
Open Hand Theater

Price: $9 adults; $6 children (members get $1 off)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Open Hand Theater's delightful puppetry celebration of books and reading is a joyful performance for the whole family.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Audience-interactive version of the classic story.

One of the Lesser Know Tales of King Aurthur
Chaos Theater

Baldwinsville Library
33 E. Genesee St., Baldwinsville

Information: 315-635-5631.

Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Member of the Wedding
Redhouse

Price: $33 regular; $26 senior (65 or older); $22 student
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers follows 12-year-old Frankie as she enters adolescence in the steamy summer of 1944 in Georgia. With her older brother's impending marriage day approaching, fantasy, romance and real life collide as Frankie deals with the trials and tribulations of growing up and letting go.

Read a Review!

Beauty and the Beast
Syracuse Civic Theatre

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

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The Wizard of Oz
Vineyard Theatre Arts

Price: $20 regular, $16 students/seniors
Syracuse Vineyard Church
312 Lakeside Rd., Syracuse

Brains. Heart. Courage. Follow the yellow brick road with us as we explore the American classic.

Read a Review!

Hairspray
Broadway in Syracuse

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Hairspray takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, where the question comes up: Can a big girl, with big hair and bigger dreams, change the world.

Read a review!

Where Is My Girl

Price: $10 regular, $6 children, $8 seniors and advanced sale
Eagle Hill Middle School
4645 Enders Rd., Manlius

Karel Capek's R.U.R.
Appleseed Productions

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

A futuristic story of the creation of robots that eventually become sentient and rise up against their human creators.

Read a review!

Real Love
LeMoyne College
Boot & Buskin Drama Club

Price: $10 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Can real love win in a world of fear and politics? A retelling of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus tells what happens when 50 sisters break a marriage contract promising them to their 50 cousins. The men catch up with the runaway brides and a battle of the sexes begins.

Read a review!

Forever Plaid
Opening Night Productions

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

One of the most popular and successful musicals in recent memory, this deliciously goofy revue centers on four young, eager male singers killed in a car crash in the 1950s on the way to their first big concert, and now miraculously revived for the posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was.

Singing in the closest of harmony, squabbling boyishly over the smallest intonations and executing their charmingly outlandish choreography with over-zealous precision, the "Plaids" are a guaranteed smash, with a program of beloved songs and delightful patter that keeps audiences rolling in the aisles when they're not humming along to some of the great nostalgic pop hits of the '50s.

Cast: Jonathon Baldwin (from NYC) is Frankie, Thomas Greene is Jinx, Terry LaCasse is Sparky, and Rob Searle is Smudge. Directed by Bob Brown. Musical Direction by Doug Pyke.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

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Bug
Syracuse Stage
Melissa Kievman, director

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

What creepy-crawly experiments happen in secret government laboratories? Many have theories. Peter may actually know. He's been there. He only recently skittered away. Or, that's what he tells Agnes between sex and crack cocaine in an out-of-the-way Oklahoma motel room. It's a lonely place but Peter and Agnes aren't exactly alone. Agnes's abusive, ex-con ex-husband slithers in and out. Her lesbian friend R.C flies by. A slimy doctor who may be a robot appears. And, then there's this sudden infestation of unusually aggressive aphids. Mysterious. Playwright Tracy Letts takes a bite out of contemporary anxieties with a stinging thriller that really gets under the skin. An Off-Broadway hit, Bug was the talk of New York last season. Find out what the buzz is about. Nudity. Violence. Conspiracies. Adult language and situations. It's enough to make you itch.

Read a Review!

Lend Me a Tenor
Syracuse University Drama Department
Black Box Players

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