TICKETS & UPCOMING EVENTS @Stage
Sensory Friendly Performance “CLUE”
SENSORY FRIENDLY PERFORMANCE
”CLUE ”
Sensory Friendly performances provide a welcoming environment that lets all patrons express themselves freely without judgment or inhibition. For select performances, these live theatre experiences invite autistic individuals as well as those living with ADD, ADHD, dementia, and other sensory sensitivities to enjoy the performance in a "shush-free" zone.
All tickets for Sensory Friendly performances are $30 and include a 100% refund right up to the start of the show.
Wednesday@1 LECTURE SERIES
Making a Game Out of Murder
Wednesday, June 14, 2023 1:00 PM 2:00 PM
Jono Naito is a game designer, writer, and developer anchored in North Syracuse with design credit on award-winning projects locally and nationally, including live games, mysteries, role-playing games, and tabletop games. Jono is currently leads the design team at Intrigue, and also collaborates as part of the artist collective at DVC Games.
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL “CLUE”
M&T Bank’s
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL Performance
Clue
June 7 - 11, 2023
76 tickets will be available across performances June 7 - 11, 2023.
Pay-what-you-will tickets must be claimed in person at the Box Office, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, on the day of the desired performance, subject to availability. The Box Office opens at 10 a.m. and will remain open through the start of the show. There is a limit of two tickets per person.
Clue
June 7 - 25, 2023
Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn | Written by Sandy Rustin | Additional Material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price | Based on the Paramount Pictures motion picture | Based on the Hasbro board game CLUE | Original Music by Michael Holland | Directed by Ben Hanna
Farce meets murder mystery in this hilarious theatrical adaptation of the famed board game and 1985 motion picture. In a remote mansion not far from Washington, D.C., a mysterious and familiar cast of characters—Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, and Miss Scarlet—gather for a dinner party and an evening of murder. Does the sudden demise of their host, Mr. Boddy, have any connection to the ongoing hearings conducted by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee? It’s all fun and games until someone gets clobbered by a candlestick in the library. After that, it’s even more fun.
PROLOGUE
April 13, @ 6:30 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
TALK BACK
May 14, after the 7:30 performance
After seeing the show, bring your questions to a post-show discussion led by a member of Stage’s artistic staff with the show’s creative team. Talkbacks are included with your purchase of the evening’s performance. (free for ticket holders)
PROLOGUE
May 13, @ 1:00 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
Wednesday@1 LECTURE SERIES
Wednesday@1 Lecture Series
FREE FOR TICKET HOLDERS
Join playwright Kyle bass for an insightful pre-show lecture series free for ticket holders.
PROLOGUE
May 7, @ 1:00 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
Tender Rain
May 3 - 21, 2023
By Kyle Bass | Directed by Rodney Hudson
"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures a vague but nagging trepidation. They are a late-middle-aged childless couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Ruthie Mimms, the Black woman who raised and protected Milton in childhood and beyond, rescue him once more? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores the complexities of race relations and how an oppressive society's pain, violence, and suffering leaches insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet.
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL “TENDER RAIN”
M&T Bank’s
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL Performance
TENDER RAIN
May 3 - 7, 2023
76 tickets will be available across performances May 3 - 7, 2023.
Pay-what-you-will tickets must be claimed in person at the Box Office, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, on the day of the desired performance, subject to availability. The Box Office opens at 10 a.m. and will remain open through the start of the show. There is a limit of two tickets per person.
TENDER RAIN
May 3 - 21, 2023
By Kyle Bass | Directed by Rodney Hudson
"Rain is like sorrow. It exposes our roots." In this elegiac drama, playwright Kyle Bass introduces Milton Millard, a white banker who lives in a small Southern city with Dolores, his wife whom he can hardly see anymore and who endures alone the memory of loss and unrelenting trepidation. Childless, they are a late-middle-aged couple lost in a fog of what cannot be undone. Is there a way forward for either of them? Can Milton seek aid from Ruthie Mimms, an older Black woman who has profoundly and irrevocably influenced his life? The momentary escape Milton finds in the arms of a younger woman will not spare him the reckoning he must face. Set in the 1950s, Tender Rain explores how pain, violence, and suffering rooted in an oppressive society leach insidiously into domestic lives and intimate relationships. A journey through a richly layered emotional landscape from the author of Possessing Harriet and salt/city/blues.
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT'S FESTIVAL
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT’S FESTIVAL
Every year Syracuse Stage invites Central New York high school students to write original ten-minute plays and other performance pieces for entry into our annual Young Playwrights Festival contest. Finalists will see their plays performed as staged readings by Syracuse University Drama Students.
Push, Pull, Together, Apart
SAVE THE DATE Free Family Days
APRIL 29, @ 10 AM
THEATRE FOR THE VERY YOUNG (6 months-5 yrs)
Push, Pull, Together, Apart
Free Public Performance Location: SYRACUSE STAGE
Specifically designed for our youngest audiences and their families, Push, Pull, Together, Apart is about connection. How many different ways are we connected with each other and the world around us? In this participatory experience, young audience members will join in exploring the different ways in which brand new eyes find connection in the spontaneous.
This 30 minute non-verbal performance will involve interactive sounds, props, and storytelling. This year we partner with the Everson Museum of Art.
Co-Production between Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University Department of Drama
Push, Pull, Together, Apart
SAVE THE DATE Free Family Days
APRIL 29, @ 9 AM
THEATRE FOR THE VERY YOUNG (6 months-5 yrs)
Push, Pull, Together, Apart
Free Public Performance Location: SYRACUSE STAGE
Specifically designed for our youngest audiences and their families, Push, Pull, Together, Apart is about connection. How many different ways are we connected with each other and the world around us? In this participatory experience, young audience members will join in exploring the different ways in which brand new eyes find connection in the spontaneous.
This 30 minute non-verbal performance will involve interactive sounds, props, and storytelling. This year we partner with the Everson Museum of Art.
Co-Production between Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University Department of Drama
Push, Pull, Together, Apart
SAVE THE DATE Free Family Days
APRIL 22, @ 10 AM
THEATRE FOR THE VERY YOUNG (6 months-5 yrs)
Push, Pull, Together, Apart
Free Public Performance Location: EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART
Specifically designed for our youngest audiences and their families, Push, Pull, Together, Apart is about connection. How many different ways are we connected with each other and the world around us? In this participatory experience, young audience members will join in exploring the different ways in which brand new eyes find connection in the spontaneous.
This 30 minute non-verbal performance will involve interactive sounds, props, and storytelling. This year we partner with the Everson Museum of Art.
Co-Production between Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University Department of Drama
The Golden Gala
The Syracuse Stage GOLDEN GALA
Marriott Syracuse Downtown – Grand Ballroom
Friday, April 14, 2023, 6 PM – 9 PM
A joyful evening of dinner, drinks, and high-flying entertainment
PROLOGUE
April 13, @ 6:30 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
PROLOGUE
April 8, @ 1:00 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
Wednesday@1 LECTURE SERIES
Wednesday@1 Lecture Series
FREE FOR TICKET HOLDERS
April 5, @1 PM
Chris Woodworth is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. Her most recent work is a public history project, exploring the 128-year old Smith Opera House in Geneva, NY through history tours, blog posts, community-based site-specific performances, and a YouTube series. Woodworth is coeditor of Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor. Her scholarship has appeared in Theatre Symposium, Theatre History Studies, Theatre Annual, and several edited collections. In addition to her scholarly work, she is a director and playwright. For more information on her artistry and scholarship, visit www.thisworldofyes.com.
TALK BACK
April 2, after the 7:30 performance
After seeing the show, bring your questions to a post-show discussion led by a member of Stage’s artistic staff with the show’s creative team. Talkbacks are included with your purchase of the evening’s performance. (free for ticket holders)
PROLOGUE
April 2, @ 1:00 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL “OUR TOWN”
M&T Bank’s
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL Performance
Our Town
March 29 - April 2, 2023
76 tickets will be available across performances March 29 - April 2.
Pay-what-you-will tickets must be claimed in person at the Box Office, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse, on the day of the desired performance, subject to availability. The Box Office opens at 10 a.m. and will remain open through the start of the show. There is a limit of two tickets per person.
OUR TOWN
March 29 – April 16, 2023
By Thornton Wilder | Directed by Robert Hupp
“The life of a village against the life of the stars” is how Thornton Wilder described his heralded masterpiece Our Town. “It is an attempt,” he wrote, “to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.” He succeeded with this graceful and poetic play—a heartfelt call to cherish every unimportant moment we’re together and to embrace the true wonder and brevity of being alive. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Whether in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, at the turn of the 20th century, or Syracuse, New York, in 2023, Wilder’s enduring classic asks us to stop and ponder what truly matters, and to consider that for a great many of us the answers will be the same. Bob Hupp directs one of his favorite plays.
Our Town
March 29 – April 16, 2023
By Thornton Wilder | Directed by Robert Hupp
“The life of a village against the life of the stars” is how Thornton Wilder described his heralded masterpiece Our Town. “It is an attempt,” he wrote, “to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.” He succeeded with this graceful and poetic play—a heartfelt call to cherish every unimportant moment we’re together and to embrace the true wonder and brevity of being alive. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Whether in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, at the turn of the 20th century, or Syracuse, New York, in 2023, Wilder’s enduring classic asks us to stop and ponder what truly matters, and to consider that for a great many of us the answers will be the same. Bob Hupp directs one of his favorite plays.
SING AT THE FITZ
Join us at The Fitz the first Monday of each Month for Cabaret Night!
SIGN UP
Capped at the first 15 singers to sign up each month. 18+ only! (No exceptions.) Performances start at 7:30 with the pianist arriving at 6:00 to walk-through any songs. Singers should bring their sheet music… scores/copies should be clear and legible from a book or hole-punched notebook.
POETRY + PLAY
Sunday, March 5, 12:30 PM
Curated by Syracuse Stage Resident Playwright Kyle Bass, local poets share original works in English and Spanish.
PROLOGUE
March 2 @ 6:30 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
TALK BACK
February 26, after the 7:30 performance
After seeing the show, bring your questions to a post-show discussion led by a member of Stage’s artistic staff with the show’s creative team. Talkbacks are included with your purchase of the evening’s performance. (free for ticket holders)
PROLOGUE
February 25 @ 1:00 PM
(free for ticket holders)
A pre-show discussion one hour prior to curtain.
Wednesday@1 LECTURE SERIES
Wednesday@1 Lecture Series
FREE FOR TICKET HOLDERS
Join us for an insightful pre-show lecture series free for ticket holders,
“Tripping Over Transnationalism”
Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where she directs the Migration Studies minor. She is past president of the international Latin American Studies Association. She specializes in contemporary narrative and performance from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, comparative border studies, and cultural theory. Her most recent books include South of the Future: Speculative Biotechnologies and Care Markets in South Asia and Latin America (with Anindita Banerjee), The Scholar as Human (with Anna Sims Bartel),and Transitions in Latin American Literature (with Mónica Szurmuk).
LA CASITA CULTURAL CENTER RECEPTION
Sunday, Feb. 19, 4 PM at La Casita
(109 Otisco St., Syracuse)
Celebrate Espejos: Clean with our Community Engagement Partner La Casita. This reception is open to the public. No RSVP required.
Syracuse Stage is happy to support local non-profit organizations with ticket donations, pending eligibility and availability.
Stage is able to contribute a maximum of one pair of tickets per organization per year. Requests typically approved include those for non-profit fundraisers such as raffles or silent auctions. To request a ticket donation, please click the button below and fill out the form entirely. Please note that a minimum of six weeks notice is required for requests, and not all requests will be fulfilled.