Rochester City Newspaper - Special Sections

Rochester prides itself on being the home of Susan B. Anthony — but before you get your hopes up, you should know that the city’s favorite local suffragist is not a character in “Suffs.” While she is alluded to, the events of this touring Tony-award winning musical take place years after Anthony’s 1906 death, starting in 1913 and leading up to the ratification of the 19th Am...

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

The age-old question seems impossible to answer. There is a domino effect of fear and doubt — endless possibilities await, but the uncertainty of the unknown is ever-present. For Mario Gagliardi, there was never an opportunity to second guess his future.

It’s morning. You’re sipping coffee, watching the sun crest over a California canyon. Or, it’s midnight. You’re crushing beers, closing down a bar somewhere on Monroe Avenue.

Either way, “Graceland Way,” Rochester-born Mikaela Davis’s latest, would be an apt soundtrack. Davis and company strain melancholy and make-believe through frontier thinking. Orville Peck — y...

Last September, an old canal barge made its way from Rochester 45 miles west to the village of Medina. Community members lugged trees and soil to help the artist Mary Mattingly build a unique garden — a floating one.

Mattingly’s project is one of the key pieces of the Medina Triennial, which brings international artists and their work to the small village along the...

There’s no generational nostalgia on my part for “Anastasia,” the 1997 film from legendary animation director Don Bluth. I first saw the movie a year or so after its release, while in college, and for a second time a year or so ago at a screening at Rochester’s own Little Theatre. But what I would call a minor screen delight translates superbly to the stage, in particular th...