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...

Broadway is a business, and shows based on sources that are already household names are considered safe bets. The Rochester Broadway Theatre League ho...

Murder trials, medieval Chinese curses and messy family dysfunction – it may be summer, but drama never takes a vacation. While some theaters wind...

Demetrio Alomar spent his senior year at Nazareth University preparing to showcase his musical theater talents onstage. During a trip to New York ...

Catastrophe can turn a place's identity into the worst thing that’s happened there: Columbine, Parkland, Aurora.Geva Theatre Center's world premi...

Unlikely friendships are often the stuff of great stories: Elliott and E.T. Legolas and Gimli. Rory and Paris. And because so many of these friendship...

Twentieth-century composer Francis Poulenc’s towering “Dialogues des Carmélites” is a rare opera. All the major plot points are clearly telegraphe...

The creation of the musical “Moses Man: Finding Home” began with Deborah Haber, executive artistic director of local theater organization DEEP Art...

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...

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...