Archive: Arts & Entertainment

Aurora, New York – The Aurora Free Library Preservation Committee will present its spring fundraiser, “Reserve Two for Murder.” This interactive theatre production will take place on Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 pm in the Morgan Opera House, Main Street, Aurora. A dessert and coffee reception will follow the performance. All proceeds will benefit the Aurora Free Library’s “Raise the Roof” campaign.

“Reserve Two for Murder” opens with a play within a play set five hundred years in the future. As this play unfolds, the theater is suddenly plunged into darkness and an actor is shot and killed by someone in the audience. Weird, chilling developments begin to take place, including a second murder, a vanishing corpse that reappears in the auditorium’s rear, and the disclosure that operatives of a spy ring are present.

Aurora, New York - The Music Department at Wells College announced that eminent British pianist-composer Roger Steptoe will present a lecture-recital on the Aurora campus. The free event will take place on Friday, April 18 at 4:00 pm in Barler Recital Hall.

Roger Steptoe has established a solid reputation as a performer, teacher and composer in England as well as abroad.  His compositional style has been described in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as “…a refreshingly individual response to the English school from Elgar to Tippett: fine craftsmanship, lyricism, rhythmic suppleness and imaginatively free and translucent harmony, often alternating diatonic and chromatic intervals.”

ITHACA, NY - "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely playersŠ"  This famous quote is just one sumptious small crumb in the festive feast of language that comprises William Shakespeare's sparkling romantic comedy As You Like It. Set to be staged at the Cornell Schwartz Center April 24-May 3, As You Like It features one of the Bard's most inspired heroines, Rosalind. Fleeing from Court and disguised as a boy, Rosalind uses her wit, wisdom and wily feminism to learn life lessons on love and human nature.

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Smart TalkSMART TALK
by Dr. Viva Palaver

MINORITIES:  What do we mean by minorities?  And who is "we"?  As staff psychologist at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I always listen closely to patients' answers to these questions.  One's language reveals more than education and social class.

Most white Americans use minorities to mask their racial prejudice, laughably claiming that any nonwhite group is a minority.  The same white Americans try to show off their political correctness by saying African-Americans instead of Blacks or, say, Jamaican-Americans; and Asian-Americans instead of, say, Korean-Americans.

Apparently, white Americans have agreed to refer to groups of people by continent.  By any measure, then, European-Americans thereby become a minority.

When my patients suddenly learn this, they often reveal insecurities, and we can begin to make progress.


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Aurora, New York – The Wells College Arts & Lecture Series will welcome the award-winning Aquila Theatre Company to campus on Friday, April 18 for a stage production of Joseph Heller’s important play, “Catch-22.”  The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall.

The Aquila Theatre Company’s dynamic and humorous new production of Joseph Heller’s own stage adaptation of his classic novel “Catch-22” will explore the important and timely questions surrounding the nature of war and its impact on American society.

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SMART TALK

by Dr. Ced Riley


MENTAL TELEPATHY:  Come on, people, would you say nasal telepathy?  Manual?  Gastro-intestinal? 

Of course not, so just call it telepathy.

Some patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, as well as Chief Johnson of the local Underbelly, Texas, police department, say that all telepaths are mentally insane. 

By saying that, they weaken their argument, since they forget that one can't be anally insane.  Unless one is very, very neat, I suppose.

It all depends on your mental attitude.

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Following a successful run Off-Broadway at the the Barrow Street Theatre (NYC), Brian Dykstra returns to the Kitchen for four more performances of his impassioned indictment of the religious right, THE JESUS FACTOR, directed  by long-time collaborator Margarett Perry (CLEAN ALTERNATIVES, A MARRIAGE MINUET, STRANGERHORSE, OLD TIMES).

Brian Dykstra and Margarett Perry are becoming very well known to Kitchen Theatre audiences. Dykstra’s toxic comedy CLEAN ALTERNATIVES directed by Perry took Ithaca by storm in October of 2006. The pair returned this past summer as actor and director in David Wiltse’s  hilarious bedroom farce A MARRIAGE MINUET and earlier this season the Kitchen staged the world premiere of Dykstra’s explosive STRANGERHORSE. Perry is currently directing Harold Pinter’s OLD TIMES on the Kitchen Theatre Main Stage through April 13.

The Kitchen Theatre Company’s KITCHEN COUNTER CULTURE series, featuring cutting-edge, outside-the-box work by guest artists from around the country, continues this month with a new play by playwright Lenelle Moïse.  EXPATRIATE features two actors, Moïse and NYC-based actress Karla Mosley, and is directed by Tamilla Woodard.  It will run at the Kitchen Theatre for three performances only:  April 18, 19, and 20.  All performances will be followed by a talkback with the artists.

EXPATRIATE tells the story of Claudie and Alphine, African-American jazz singers and long-time sister-friends.  Disillusioned by grief, homophobia and “the black glass ceiling,” the two flee to Europe to realize their starved American dreams.  In Paris, their stars rise.   But Claudie and Alphine soon discover that for some black artists living abroad, stardom comes at a price.  Will their friendship survive the pressures of their newfound success?  This musical drama combines dialogue, dream sequences, dance, and live music in an exploration of race, friendship, addiction, art and infamy.