Katherine Varga
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Age: 33 Hometown: Far Rockaway, Queens Current residence: Rochester Occupation: Artist; musician Taurus Savant is an artistic jack-of-all-trades...
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If you browse the summary of Shakespeare's “Pericles: Prince of Tyre" before seeing it, you might be alarmed by what comes up. Beheadings! Incest!...
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In 1983, “The Color Purple” made Alice Walker the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction—and certainly the first to win for a novel cen...
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Broadway is a business, and shows based on sources that are already household names are considered safe bets. The Rochester Broadway Theatre League ho...
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Murder trials, medieval Chinese curses and messy family dysfunction – it may be summer, but drama never takes a vacation. While some theaters wind...
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Catastrophe can turn a place's identity into the worst thing that’s happened there: Columbine, Parkland, Aurora.Geva Theatre Center's world premi...
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A sanctuary city is the term for a place that offers immigrants basic protections from arrest or deportation on the basis of their citizen status. Roc...
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If you’ve been to the theater lately, you were probably asked to turn off your phone before the performance. The audience for “Mala,” a one-woman show...
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It can be easy to write off a play written in the 1700s as stuffy and outdated — and unfortunately, many plays deserve that dismissal.“The Rivals...
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How do you cast the role of a legendary performer — someone like Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of the 20th century, and the subject...