Night & Day

Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood

by The Staff March 29, 2012

These guys. Even if you don’t know their names, there’s a good chance they look familiar, and a better chance that they’ve made you laugh. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood became familiar basic-cable faces thanks to ...

Shirley MacLaine

by The Staff March 22, 2012

Shirley MacLaine has had a hell of a career, and she’s going to look back on it Friday evening at Proctors. The Oscar-winning actress, author, singer and dancer will be telling her story and showing clips ...

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Club Bellydance

by The Staff March 22, 2012

We’re long past the days when belly dancing was “exotic” or controversial. It has gained widespread acceptance in cabarets, concert halls and dance studios. Miles Copeland’s Bellydance Superstars have been around for a while now, and ...

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Alan Holdsworth Band

by The Staff March 22, 2012

Musician magazine lists Alan Holdsworth near the very top of its ranking of the greatest guitarists of the century—and most, if not all, jazz critics and enthusiasts are in agreement. A seminal innovator within, and ...

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Nareh Arghamanyan

by The Staff March 15, 2012

Nareh Arghmanyan is a rising star on the international concert scene. The 22-year-old Armenian-born pianist spent the latter half of the last decade entering (and winning) European piano competitions, and released her first album, a ...

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The Royal Comedy Tour

by The Staff March 15, 2012

This is the third edition of the Royal Comedy Tour, with “the queen” Sommore (pictured) joined by Earthquake, Arnez J, and Hanging With Mr. Cooper’s Mark Curry. Once upon a time, “Sommore” was Lori Ann Rambough, ...

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Dr. Dog

by The Staff March 15, 2012

Who doesn’t love a good supermassive, light-absorbing, gravitationally inescapable astronomic singularity? “That Old Black Hole,” the first single on Dr. Dog’s new record, isn’t exactly a love song from beyond the event horizon, but it ...

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Black Pearl Sings!

by The Staff March 8, 2012

The arts bring two very different women, and worlds, together in Frank Higgins’ musical drama Black Pearl Sings!, opening this week at Capital Repertory Theatre. In this story set in the Great Depression, a government-sponsored “song ...

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onedotzero double feature

by The Staff March 1, 2012

For such a forward-thinking assemblage of creatives, it’s hard to believe that onedotzero has been around for 15 years—an eternity in the cutting-edge cosmos of international interactive arts. The digital-arts organization brings together high-end and ...

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Jersey Boys

by The Staff February 23, 2012

This smash musical hit is still packing them in on Broadway, but you can see Jersey Boys right here in the Capital Region beginning Tuesday (Feb. 28) at Proctors for a three-week run. The rags-to-riches story ...

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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 ...

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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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