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Hello Hi There

by The Staff February 16, 2012

“What happens when you place two chatbot programs in conversation?” This is the question posed by Obie Award-winning writer-director Annie Dorsen about the set-up of Hello Hi There, the performance piece she will present at EMPAC ...

Stomp

by The Staff February 16, 2012

The rhythms of the street—from banging garbage cans to boot heels clacking on concrete—are transformed onstage into a provocative, sophisticated, and utterly unique theatrical experience. Known for a mesmerizing “light show” created with Zippo lighters, ...

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Catherine Russell

by The Staff February 16, 2012

David Bowie, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Levon Helm, Cyndi Lauper, Roseanne Cash. . . . Vocalist Catherine Russell spent many years backing pop music’s biggest stars before cutting out on her own in 2006. The ...

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Peter Frampton

by The Staff February 9, 2012

Peter Frampton is the original T-Pain. Sure, he’s done a lot of different stuff in his career (starring alongside the Bee Gees in the 1976 film adaptation of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, for ...

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Much Ado About Nothing

by The Staff February 9, 2012

Benedick and Beatrice love each other but don’t want to admit it. Claudio and Hero love each other but are tricked into an acrimonious parting. What will happen? As Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespearian ...

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Truth Values: One Woman’s Romp . . .

by The Staff February 1, 2012

Women are less represented than men in the sciences because of innate gender differences. Or so said Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, who eminently deserves whatever scathing wit is thrown his way in Truth ...

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David Guetta

by The Staff February 1, 2012

If his music videos are any indication, whenever French house producer David Guetta takes to his decks, anyone within earshot becomes afflicted by spontaneous dance party syndrome. It’s not unlike the song-and-dance routines that suddenly ...

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Tokyo String Quartet

by The Staff February 1, 2012

Reviews of the recorded works and live performances of the Tokyo String Quartet invariably use superlatives like “clarity” and “elegance” to describe their interpretations of the classical repertoire. Thanks to the Friends of Chamber Music, ...

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Exit Dome 5

by The Staff January 26, 2012

Tune into 97.7 WEXT anytime and you’re likely to hear Chris Wienk, Dave Michaels or KTG geeking out over new independent artists. And at least once an hour, that artist comes from the Local 518. ...

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The Ives Have It

by The Staff January 26, 2012

Schenectady Civic Players are following up their successful (and hugely enjoyable) production of George S. Kaufman’s The Royal Family with The Ives Have It, an evening of one-acts by New York City-based playwright, essayist and ...

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Sesame Street Live

by The Staff January 26, 2012

Sesame Street Live settles in at the Palace Theatre tomorrow (Friday) for a series of seven shows over three days. Of course, the wildly popular Elmo stars in 1-2-3 Imagine! alongside all your favorites from ...

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The Sisters Rosensweig

by The Staff January 19, 2012

The late Wendy Wasserstein was one of the most celebrated playwrights of her generation, and one of her most highly praised (and popular) plays, The Sisters Rosensweig, opens this week at Capital Repertory Theatre. It’s the ...

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Aimee Mann

by The Staff January 19, 2012

With her emotionally direct, often droll songs, Aimee Mann has won a solid following of music lovers who don’t mind a touch of, um, gloom with their power chords. (You can count us among Mann’s ...

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Shrek The Musical

by The Staff January 19, 2012

Shrek, the hit movie from DreamWorks Animation, turned the fairy tale universe upside down. The hero wasn’t a handsome prince, but an odd-smelling, swamp-dwelling green ogre with a strange accent and an even weirder best ...

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Bebe Neuwirth: Stories With Piano

by The Staff January 12, 2012

In her cabaret-style performance piece Stories With Piano, the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning actress, singer and dancer Bebe Neuwirth tells stories through the songs she performs. Songs by Kander and Ebb, Brecht and Weill, ...

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Irish American Heritage Museum

by The Staff January 12, 2012

The only museum of its kind in the country, the Irish American Heritage Museum spent its first quarter of a century being open only in the summer, at its seasonal site in a hamlet in ...

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The Lemonheads

by The Staff January 12, 2012

When Evan Dando and company traipsed through Northampton this fall, we thought that was going to be the last we’d see of them for another—say—decade. But it seems that Dando might have some unfinished business ...

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Moscow Festival Ballet

by The Staff January 5, 2012

The holidays—aka Nutcracker season—may be over, but Proctors has another Tchaikovsky ballet treat on offer this weekend: The Moscow Festival Ballet production of Sleeping Beauty. Founded in 1989 by ex-Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Sergei Radchenko, the ...

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Chris Thile and Michael Daves

by The Staff January 5, 2012

One mic is all these bluegrass purists need. Nickel Creek veteran and contemporary mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile has grown up on the simple formula that Bill Monroe made famous on that very instrument. And while ...

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To Kill a Mockingbird

by The Staff January 5, 2012

Harper Lee’s novel of life in the South in the mid-20th century has become one of the most popular works in American literature; To Kill a Mockingbird is both a sensitive view of childhood and ...

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4th Annual New Year’s Eve Comedy Blast

by The Staff December 30, 2011

“Save up!” Is that a directive from the Federal Reserve, or a play on the well-worn catchphrase? Whatever it is, it’s also the title of a new comedy CD by Killer BeaZ, a Showtime and ...

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Burlesque Paradiso 1920s Revue

by The Staff December 30, 2011

If you want to swing in the New Year like it’s 1929, just hike up your hemline, tighten your bowtie, and travel back in time along Central Avenue. Burlesque Paradiso is promising a “speakeasy way” ...

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The Felice Brothers

by The Staff December 30, 2011

Earlier this month, the Felice Brothers had to cut their European tour short when chief songwriter Ian Felice came down with a case of shingles. A little R&R at home in the Catskills was all ...

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Kenny Rogers

by The Staff December 21, 2011

There’s a man who—whenever he gets a couple Steel Reserves in his belly—sings a damn fine rendition of “Lucille” on the bus stop bench outside the Metroland offices. However, it will probably never measure up ...

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Mary Poppins Family Day

by The Staff December 21, 2011

“Oh, it’s a jolly holiday with Mary!” As generations of children and their parents can attest, there’s always a’ merry to be making with Mary Poppins, who is flying in for Boxer’s Day (Mon., Dec. 26) ...

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