Rochester City Newspaper - Arts & Entertainment

The Rochester Community Players are following the news. They’re aware that ICE’s escalated detainment campaign has separated local families. They have their eyes on federal attempts to override procedure and impose a detention facility on State Street. They know the Batavia detention center is expanding. Their response is a staging of the deeply emotional play “A Good Farmer...

Donnie Del Plato has an entire wall of VHS tapes in her apartment, sorted and stacked from floor-to-ceiling in a kaleidoscope of cardboard sleeves. She’s lost count of exactly how many she’s amassed, but the number has crested 1,000, plus a few bulky CRT TVs.

Del Plato’s collection started three years ago with two curios: “Jurassic Park” and “A Clockwork Orange.” W...

When the upper echelon of the filmgoing community convenes in the dog days of summer at the Telluride Film Festival, two questions are usually on everyone’s mind: Will the eventual Best Picture winner premiere here? And what is this year’s secret screening? 

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Early on in Georgia Oakley’s “Sense and Sensibility,” the most recent adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved 1811 novel, Marianne Dashwood (played by Esmé Creed-Miles) finishes off a list of non-negotiables she’s looking for in a husband with the potent summation: “I require so much.” It’s played as a bit of joke — rightly, for even though we’ve just met her, we can tell that M...

Even the cab driver snapped a photo.

When Jesse Ferrara and his wife were on a babymoon in Japan, Ferrara, a lifelong fan of Power Rangers — yes, the Mighty Morphin’ kind — saw it as a great opportunity. On a break from exploring the local culture, the couple ventured to a remote quarry.

But not just any quarry. This very craggy spot was where scenes from...