The Oneida Daily Dispatch (Oneida, NY)
Americana, folks and blues
Tuesday, the Local Music Project presents Sherburne native and singer-songwriter Lauren Mettler and Americana duo Dove Creek.
HAMILTON, N.Y. >> Tuesday, the Local Music Project presents Sherburne native and singer-songwriter Lauren Mettler and Americana duo Dove Creek.
Mettler is a versatile songstress with folk, blues, and world music influences on guitar, banjo, mandolin, and ukulele. Her poeticallycrafted songs carry universal appeal. Mettler has performed at the Earlville Opera House, Colgate Inn, Palace Theater, Barge Canal Coffee house, Number 10 Tavern, and other venues. Find her music at https://laurenmettler.bandcamp.com.
As part of Americana duo Dove Creek, Reyna Stagnaro and Ed Vollmer offer an eclectic Americana mix of originals, covers, and instrumentals. Dove Creek plays festivals, bandstands, coffeehouses, restaurants, taverns, and holiday events in Central New York including three days at the 2016 New York State Fair. Find Dove Creek online at www. facebook.com/dovecreek. music.
The Local Music Project provides a venue where top local amateur musicians can play a full concert for an attentive audience. All shows begin at 7 p.m. in the Colgate Inn in Hamilton. A $5 donation suggested. For more information, call 8241094. SYRACUSE, N.Y.>> Syracuse Stage presents “Deathtrap,” a comedy-thriller guaranteed to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
Written by award-winning playwright and novelist Ira Levin, “Deathtrap” has all the right ingredients for the perfect murder mystery with a delightful twist. There are thrills and surprises around every corner.
This murder mystery opens on Friday, May 12 in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/ SU Drama Complex, 820 E. Genesee St. There will be a preview performance tonight.
After the play’s Broadway debut in 1978, it received an Edgar Award (named after Edgar Allen Poe) for Best Play from the Mystery Writers of America.
The show later earned a Tony nomination for Best Play and was called “an absolute knockout of suspense melodrama” by New York Times reviewer Walter Kerr.
“Deathtrap” is the lon- gest- running comedythriller on Broadway, with a four-year run of 1,793 performances at the Music Box Theatre.
“Deatht rap” centers on a once successful playwright, Sidney Bruhl, who finds himself in desperate need of a hit. While brooding over the failure of his most recent plays, Bruhl receives a manuscript from a former student, a young man named Clifford. Instantly, Bruhl recognizes the play’s potential to be the hit he so badly needs and conspires with his wife, Myra, to “separate” the young writer from the as yet unpublished and unproduced work.
Considered a “play within a play”, “Deathtrap” mixes comedy with tongue- in- cheek references to the theatre. Levin also honors the tradition of the mystery genre with sly and subtle allusions to older thrillers like “Dial M for Murder” and “Sleuth”.
Director Paul Barnes, known for his past work on Syracuse Stage’s “The Miracle Worker,” “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” and “Peter Pan,” is a long-time “Deathtrap” fan. Barnes saw the original Broadway production, and he hopes to evoke in Syracuse Stage audiences the same vicarious thrill he experienced.
“People love a good murder mystery because you get to experience danger without risking life or limb,” said Barnes. “I hope our work fulfills the thrills and chills Ira Levin so cleverly intended when he wrote the play, ‘Deathtrap’ provides audiences with that rollercoaster ride sense of risk and surprise, from which everyone emerges safe, sound and in one piece at journey’s end.”
“Deatht rap” is a thriller in two acts, with one set and five characters. Barnes intends to stay true to the show’s pre- computer, pre- cell phone, 1970s world. Barnes has directed other mysteries and says he enjoys the speculation they generate among audience members.