Kelundra Smith

Comedy and suspense are on the menu for theater in Central New York this summer. With shows in the Finger Lakes tourists area as well as Ithaca and Syracuse, contemporary shows with the right amount of zany qualities are on the bill.

On Friday, May 11, 2012 sonaBLAST! recording artist, Kyle James Hauser headlines 'Live From UI Sound Studios.'

Museum of the Moving Image will present a conversation with television pioneer Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of Sesame Workshop and originator of Sesame Street. Moderated by CBS reporter Lesley Stahl, the program will take place on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Museum's main theater.

Set against the backdrop of the World War I Armenian genocide, SILENCE, written by Herand Markarian, is the story of a woman's courageous journey to survive, embrace her family and preserve her Armenian heritage.

The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project for New Plays on Science and Technology will tackle Post-Concussion Syndrome when it presents the world premiere of 27-year-old playwright Patrick Link's HEADSTRONG.

Theater Schmeater continues its 20th Anniversary Season celebration with one of Joe Orton's quirkiest plays, ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE, opening on May 18 and running Thursday, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 p.m. through June 16.

Set in a gang-run, poor neighborhood in Kansas City, Kan. BROKE-OLOGY is about family, fatherhood, regret and the choices people make surrounding the three.

The concept of one single principle being utilized so differently by so many different fields was the inspiration for this play about five couples, and the universal complications in their sexual relationships despite the differences in scenario and detail.

Tarragon Theatre announces its 11-play, 2012-2013 season of contemporary plays, including a mini-festival of new works by Hannah Moscovitch; a Tarragon writing debut from David Yee; returning artists David S. Young and Asha and Ravi Jain; and work from Melody A. Johnson, John Mighton, Michel Nadeau and Morris Panych.

The Whidbey Island Center (WICA) for the Arts Theater Series presents DOUBT, A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley, April 6-21, 2012 at 7:30 p.m., directed by Andrew Grenier, who directed GOD OF CARNAGE at WICA in 2011.

Internationally known singers Alfreda Burke and Rodrick Dixon will be the featured performers at a concert to be held at Spring Glen Church, Hamden, Conn. on Thursday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m.

Joanna Chan, artistic director of Yangtze Repertory Theater of America, has adapted THE CIRCLE OF CHALK by Li QianFu into a multilingual play with arias in the style of Cantonese Opera.

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) continues its 2011-12 season with ENDGAME and PLAY-two one-act plays by modernist playwright Samuel Beckett, directed by A.C.T. artistic director Carey Perloff.

Due to a sell out of the regular run, 2nd Story Theatre has scheduled three additional performances of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning tragicomedy, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY.

PYO's Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO) will perform a benefit concert for The Union League of Philadelphia's Youth Work Foundation in Lincoln Hall on Sunday, March 4 at 2p.m. Geoffrey McDonald will conduct more than 70 talented middle- and high-school aged classical musicians in Rossini's 'Overture to Il barbiere di Siviglia,' Britten's 'Matinées Musicales' and Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 1.'

The Stages Festival, now in its 15th season, is a month-long, state-wide celebration of theater with discounted and/or free tickets to all events. The organization responsible for this much anticipated program is the New Jersey Theatre Alliance: the statewide consortium of professional theaters in the Garden State, of which East Lynne Theater Company is a proud member.

In celebration of Women's History Month, the Apollo Theater will host Behind the Scenes: Women in Theatre on Monday, March 12. The free panel, which focuses on women's careers in the theatrical industry, is presented by the Apollo Theater Education Program, the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, The Broadway League and the League of Professional Theatre Women, as part of the "Made in NY" Industry Series. The panel begins at 6:30p.m. and is free and open to the public.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company continues its 2011/12 Season with WHITE BUFFALO, a world premiere by Don Zolidis. Winner of the 2004 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and a 2011 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, the production will enjoy a ten-week engagement from Thursday, March 29 - Saturday, June 2, 2012.

Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN is one of those canonic, American plays that is a regional theater favorite and is almost undisputedly good. This means Hansberry's writing is rarely questioned, and the viability of the show being well-received by audiences also goes without skepticism. However, in Geva Theatre's production, director Robert O'Hara's artistic license with Hansberry's script is close but no cigar.

Desde el domingo 12 de febrero a las 19:30 hs Ahora en el Teatro El Tinglado Traudl Junge, partícipe y testigo de los últimos tiempos del régimen nazi, nos obliga a reflexionar sobre nuestra propia posición en los días oscuros. Bajo 11 mts. de cemento de Claudia Carbonell y Alejandra González