Saturday, April 18, 2020

*CANCELLED* Le Moyne College Steppers
LeMoyne College

Price: $5 regular, $3 students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Dolphin Steppers invite the community to their exciting and dynamic annual showcase.

*CANCELLED* Mozart and Mendelssohn Masterworks
Syracuse Chorale
Sean Linfors, conductor

Dewitt Community Church
3600 Erie Blvd. East, Dewitt

Mendelssohn Psalm 42 Wie der Hirsch Schreit Nach Frischem Wasser
Mozart Coronation Mass

*POSTPONED* Dorian Wind Quintet
Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $15 ages 35 and under, free for full-time students with ID and holders of EBT/SNAP cards
H. W. Smith School Auditorium
1130 Salt Springs Rd., Syracuse

H. Isaac (et al) Renaissance Suite (arr. Roseman)
Jacques Ibert Trois pièces brèves
Billy Childs Ecosystems, 2019
J.S. Bach Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 (arr. Rechtman)
Samuel Barber Summer Music
Paul Hindemith Kleine Kammermusic, op. 24, no. 2

*CANCELLED* Tracy Grammer
Folkus Project

Price: $20 regular, Folkus members free
All Saints Church
1340 Lancaster Ave., Syracuse

Tracy Grammer is an outstanding singer, fiddler, and mandolin player as well as a sensitive interpreter. Every performance exemplifies the quiet strength, refined sensitivity, and consummate skill for which she's known. With her natural, relaxed vocals and deep engagement with the beauty and mystery of being alive, she is one of the most compelling new voices in contemporary folk.

*CANCELLED* Major Arcana Presents
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Experimental, edgy, and bursting with creative energy. Student-directed, -designed, and -written projects in our black box theatre.

Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

*POSTPONED* I Hate Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $10-$25
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

*POSTPONED* The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Krystal Osborne, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

*POSTPONED* Biloxi Blues
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WWII, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital "L" along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1943.

*CANCELLED* Major Arcana Presents
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Experimental, edgy, and bursting with creative energy. Student-directed, -designed, and -written projects in our black box theatre.

Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

*POSTPONED* She Kills Monsters
Rarely Done Productions
Krystal Wadsworth, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

By Qui Nyuyen.

Sunday, April 19, 2020

*CANCELLED* Jazz on Tap: Steve Brown and Dino Losito
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: No cover charge
Finger Lakes On Tap
35 Fennell St., Skaneateles

*CANCELLED* Fermata Nowhere
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Le Moyne College's coed a cappella group will perform a variety of popular musical hits.

*CANCELLED* Music and Message
Hendricks Chapel
Hendricks Chapel Choir and SU Baroque Ensemble

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Program of vocal and instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries performed by the Hendricks Chapel Choir and the Setnor School of Music Baroque Ensemble.

*CANCELLED* Cabaret Series: Kim Nazarian, Jay Ashby, and the CNY Jazz Orchestra
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 in advance, $35 at the door
Drumlins Country Club
800 Nottingham Rd., Syracuse

For the past 25 years, singer, lyricist, and educator Kim Nazarian has performed all over the world as a member of the New York Voices, as well as singing with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra, Boston Pops, and countless others, in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and the Montreal Jazz Fest. She and music director/trombonist Jay Ashby will perform with the entire CNY Jazz Orchestra under the baton of Bret Zvacek.

*POSTPONED* Biloxi Blues
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WWII, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital "L" along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1943.

*CANCELLED* Major Arcana Presents
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Experimental, edgy, and bursting with creative energy. Student-directed, -designed, and -written projects in our black box theatre.

Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

*POSTPONED* I Hate Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $10-$25
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

*CANCELLED* Major Arcana Presents
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Experimental, edgy, and bursting with creative energy. Student-directed, -designed, and -written projects in our black box theatre.

Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

Monday, April 20, 2020

*POSTPONED* City Streets (1931)
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $3.50 non-members, $3 members
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Cast: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, Wynne Gibson
Director: Rouben Mamoulian

A crook's daughter (Sidney) is fascinated by gangsters ... until her formerly naïve boyfriend (Cooper) becomes one! An interesting Pre-Code mix of crime story and romantic drama, written by Dashiell Hammett.

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

*CANCELLED* LeMoyne Chamber Singers Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne College Chamber Singers perform a variety of pieces, including musical theatre and opera.

Wild Kratts Live!
Landmark Theatre

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Help the Kratt brothers save the day with Wild Kratts Live 2.0 – Activate Creature Power!, an all-new theatrical stage show based on the hit animated television series Wild Kratts. Martin and Chris Kratt, zoologists by training and stars of the Emmy-nominated show, engage the audience in a classic Wild Kratts story.

The brothers keep all ages entertained as they activate fan-favorite Creature Power Suits and go "off to the creature rescue!" With the help of the Wild Kratts team—and audience members—they confront a comic villain and help bring the creatures of the animal world to safety once again.

Experience, live on stage, the infectious excitement and inspiring quests that make Wild Kratts so popular with kids and their families.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Casual China: Modernist Dinnerware
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based Iroquois China began as a manufacturer of Victorian fine china, but produced revolutionary dinnerware in the postwar era by designers like Russel Wright and Ben Seibel. "Casual China" showcases modernist designs produced by Iroquois China, Homer Laughlin, the Hall China Company, and others.

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded brings together contemporary American artists who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within a digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Art and Architecture as Evidence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in collaboration with Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Architecture, "Art and Architecture as Evidence" is an exhibition that investigates the possibility of interpreting art and architecture as evidence — a body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. Starting with the work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan of Forensic Architecture, the gallery will be reinstalled throughout the semester as a way to investigate the question central to this exhibition: can art or architecture "prove" that an event occurred?

Veterans Creative Arts Festival
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Across the country, Department of Veterans Affairs facilities incorporate creative arts into their therapy programs to help veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival is an annual celebration of the progress and recovery made through that therapy and is a way to recognize the creative achievements of our nation's veterans. The competition begins at a local level, where veterans enrolled in VA health care facilities submit work in visual arts categories ranging from oil painting to leatherwork, as well as categories in the performing arts and creative writing. First, second, and third place entries are awarded for each category, and the competition culminates in a national exhibition featuring selected gold medal winners. A selection of the participants from the Syracuse VA Medical Center are displayed at the Everson.

*POSTPONED* The Onyx Clarinet Quartet
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Alan Woy, Laurie Dobmeier, Terry Gerber, clarinets; Roxanne Woy, bass clarinet

Price: Free
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

*CANCELLED* Jazz at the Cavalier: Scott Dennis and Friends
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Marriott Hotel Syracuse Cavalier Room
500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

*CANCELLED* Amy Yang in Concert
LeMoyne College

Price: $20 regular, $15 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Panasci Family Chapel
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A "jaw-dropping pianist who [steals] the show ... with effortless finess" (Washington Post), Amy Yang (Curtis Institute of Music) is acclaimed for the extraordinary beauty and sensitivity of her playing. This performance will feature works by Brahms, Delibes, Sibelius, Dvorak, and Schumann.

Jenny Offill
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Jenny Offill is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award), and Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. Her third novel, Weather, is forthcoming from Knopf in February 2020. She is also the author of four children's books, most recently Sparky. With Elissa Schappell, she co-edited the anthologies The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything.

The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer session from 3:45-4:30.

B: The Underwater Bubble Show
The Oncenter

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The show follows Mr. B, a creature of modern habits who "always feels pressed by a thousand things to do in a world that seems to be moving too fast." The office worker discovers a little aquarium that appears like magic inside his briefcase and gradually becomes enchanted by the wondrous underwater world of Bubblelandia, which is full of seahorses, dragon fish, starfish, mermaids and other creatures.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Casual China: Modernist Dinnerware
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based Iroquois China began as a manufacturer of Victorian fine china, but produced revolutionary dinnerware in the postwar era by designers like Russel Wright and Ben Seibel. "Casual China" showcases modernist designs produced by Iroquois China, Homer Laughlin, the Hall China Company, and others.

Art and Architecture as Evidence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in collaboration with Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Architecture, "Art and Architecture as Evidence" is an exhibition that investigates the possibility of interpreting art and architecture as evidence — a body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. Starting with the work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan of Forensic Architecture, the gallery will be reinstalled throughout the semester as a way to investigate the question central to this exhibition: can art or architecture "prove" that an event occurred?

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded brings together contemporary American artists who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within a digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Veterans Creative Arts Festival
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Across the country, Department of Veterans Affairs facilities incorporate creative arts into their therapy programs to help veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival is an annual celebration of the progress and recovery made through that therapy and is a way to recognize the creative achievements of our nation's veterans. The competition begins at a local level, where veterans enrolled in VA health care facilities submit work in visual arts categories ranging from oil painting to leatherwork, as well as categories in the performing arts and creative writing. First, second, and third place entries are awarded for each category, and the competition culminates in a national exhibition featuring selected gold medal winners. A selection of the participants from the Syracuse VA Medical Center are displayed at the Everson.

Unveiling Celebration of 2020 Poster Series
Syracuse Poster Project

Price: Free
City Hall Commons Atrium
201 East Washington St., Syracuse

Join us for the unveiling of the 2020 poster series. The event brings together poets, artists, and friends of public art to celebrate the new series. Join us for an evening of art, poetry, music, appetizers and beverages.

*POSTPONED* Biloxi Blues
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WWII, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital "L" along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1943.

*POSTPONED* She Kills Monsters
Rarely Done Productions
Krystal Wadsworth, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

By Qui Nyuyen.

Friday, April 24, 2020

Casual China: Modernist Dinnerware
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based Iroquois China began as a manufacturer of Victorian fine china, but produced revolutionary dinnerware in the postwar era by designers like Russel Wright and Ben Seibel. "Casual China" showcases modernist designs produced by Iroquois China, Homer Laughlin, the Hall China Company, and others.

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded brings together contemporary American artists who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within a digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Art and Architecture as Evidence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in collaboration with Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Architecture, "Art and Architecture as Evidence" is an exhibition that investigates the possibility of interpreting art and architecture as evidence — a body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. Starting with the work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan of Forensic Architecture, the gallery will be reinstalled throughout the semester as a way to investigate the question central to this exhibition: can art or architecture "prove" that an event occurred?

Veterans Creative Arts Festival
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Across the country, Department of Veterans Affairs facilities incorporate creative arts into their therapy programs to help veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival is an annual celebration of the progress and recovery made through that therapy and is a way to recognize the creative achievements of our nation's veterans. The competition begins at a local level, where veterans enrolled in VA health care facilities submit work in visual arts categories ranging from oil painting to leatherwork, as well as categories in the performing arts and creative writing. First, second, and third place entries are awarded for each category, and the competition culminates in a national exhibition featuring selected gold medal winners. A selection of the participants from the Syracuse VA Medical Center are displayed at the Everson.

*CANCELLED* Le Moyne Student Dance Company Spring Recital
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne Student Dance Company presents its spring 2020 recital of student- and guest-choreographed routines. The recital will feature more than a dozen dances and more than 40 performers.

*POSTPONED* I Hate Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $10-$25
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

*POSTPONED* The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Krystal Osborne, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

*POSTPONED* Biloxi Blues
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WWII, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital "L" along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1943.

*POSTPONED* She Kills Monsters
Rarely Done Productions
Krystal Wadsworth, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

By Qui Nyuyen.

Sinatra with Matt Dusk
The Oncenter

Carrier Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

All that cool, classy style and energy from the Rat Pack shows of yesterday are right here, right now. Take a journey with award-winning, multi-platinum-selling crooner Matt Dusk as he whisks you away to Las Vegas in 1966 where he pays homage to his hero Frank Sinatra.

With new arrangements by Grammy Award-winning arrangers Pat Williams and Sammy Nestico, Dusk transports you back in time to one of music's most elegant eras. A time when "Come Fly With Me," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Fly Me To The Moon," and "One For My Baby" dominated the charts.

Tickets available online at Ticketmaster.com.

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Casual China: Modernist Dinnerware
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Syracuse-based Iroquois China began as a manufacturer of Victorian fine china, but produced revolutionary dinnerware in the postwar era by designers like Russel Wright and Ben Seibel. "Casual China" showcases modernist designs produced by Iroquois China, Homer Laughlin, the Hall China Company, and others.

Art and Architecture as Evidence
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in collaboration with Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts and the School of Architecture, "Art and Architecture as Evidence" is an exhibition that investigates the possibility of interpreting art and architecture as evidence — a body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. Starting with the work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan of Forensic Architecture, the gallery will be reinstalled throughout the semester as a way to investigate the question central to this exhibition: can art or architecture "prove" that an event occurred?

AbStranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

AbStranded brings together contemporary American artists who use fiber-based materials to investigate the complex lineage of abstraction. A prominent use of the hand looms large — through knitting, weaving, quilting, and more — and suggests an alternative mode of communication within a digital society. Together, the works reveal how artists employ the language of abstraction to speak about the intertwined histories and politics of craft, race, and gender.

Veterans Creative Arts Festival
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Across the country, Department of Veterans Affairs facilities incorporate creative arts into their therapy programs to help veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities. The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival is an annual celebration of the progress and recovery made through that therapy and is a way to recognize the creative achievements of our nation's veterans. The competition begins at a local level, where veterans enrolled in VA health care facilities submit work in visual arts categories ranging from oil painting to leatherwork, as well as categories in the performing arts and creative writing. First, second, and third place entries are awarded for each category, and the competition culminates in a national exhibition featuring selected gold medal winners. A selection of the participants from the Syracuse VA Medical Center are displayed at the Everson.

*CANCELLED* Le Moyne Student Dance Company Spring Recital
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne Student Dance Company presents its spring 2020 recital of student- and guest-choreographed routines. The recital will feature more than a dozen dances and more than 40 performers.

*CANCELLED* Le Moyne Student Dance Company Spring Recital
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 seniors, $5 students and LeMoyne community
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Le Moyne Student Dance Company presents its spring 2020 recital of student- and guest-choreographed routines. The recital will feature more than a dozen dances and more than 40 performers.

The Cadleys
Steeple Coffee House

Price: $15 suggested donation covers entertainment, dessert, coffee/tea
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville

New acoustic/traditional roots

*POSTPONED* I Hate Hamlet
Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park

Price: $10-$25
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

*POSTPONED* The Laramie Project
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Krystal Osborne, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

*POSTPONED* Biloxi Blues
Central New York Playhouse
Dan Rowlands, director

CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WWII, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital "L" along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1943.

*POSTPONED* She Kills Monsters
Rarely Done Productions
Krystal Wadsworth, director

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

By Qui Nyuyen.