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‘The Fantasticks’ offers tale of forbidden love -- with a twist

October 16, 2019

“The Fantasticks,” a story about forbidden lovers, incorporating a range of emotions and unexpected twists and turns, will open the SUNY Oswego theatre in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre.

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History, storytelling return to Oswego Town Cemetery Oct. 25

October 7, 2019

A SUNY Oswego storytelling class will bring the tales of local historical figures to life during "A Night at the Oswego Town Rural Cemetery" on Friday, Oct. 25.

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Enduring musical ‘The Fantasticks’ to open theatre season

October 3, 2019

A story about forbidden lovers, with plot twists and turns, will open the theatre season at SUNY Oswego when “The Fantasticks” opens Oct. 17 in Waterman Theatre.

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2 theatre students presenting original play at Rochester Fringe Festival

September 16, 2019

SUNY Oswego senior theatre majors Michaela Buckley and Sean Ryan will perform a play they wrote, "Between Fourth and Fifth" to the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival with performances on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20 and 21.

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Trio of Alisons tries to comprehend relationship with father in 'Fun Home'

April 18, 2019

It takes three Alisons to interrogate a lifetime of memories of one brilliant, complex, self-destructive, but ultimately loving father in the SUNY Oswego theatre and music departments' soon-to-open spring musical, "Fun Home."

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Tragedy, comedy arise in ‘Fun Home’ as author explores tangle of memories

April 11, 2019

SUNY Oswego’s spring musical, "Fun Home," is a memory play that director and theatre faculty member Jonel Langenfeld likens to a snow globe -- one that allows the main character to observe from outside the good, the bad and the ugly of her fraught but loving relationship with her late father.

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Student honors play 'The Good Doctor' to portray absurdity, surprises in life

February 22, 2019

Combine classic tales by famed Russian writer Anton Chekhov with the wit and whimsy of Neil Simon, the author of many Broadway hits, and the result is "The Good Doctor," a series of 10 vignettes in one play, to take the stage in March as SUNY Oswego's annual student honors production.

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'Blanco Posnet' characters to re-create George Bernard Shaw play with 'voices alone'

November 19, 2018

The SUNY Oswego theatre department will present a one-performance staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, of famed playwright George Bernard Shaw’s “The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama.”

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'Shape of Things' to explore 'losing yourself' in intense relationships

November 1, 2018

The SUNY Oswego theatre department next month will present playwright Neil LaBute's romantic drama "The Shape of Things," a "shocking" production that exposes four college students entangled in relationships to harsh life lessons about moral conflicts.

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Video preview: 'The Shape of Things' examines love, choices, identity

November 1, 2018

The upcoming SUNY Oswego production "The Shape of Things," running Nov. 7 to 11 in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre. looks at love, choices and identity.