50 years of storytelling
50 years of storytelling
SYRACUSE STAGE’S 50th ANNIVERSARY
FIFTY YEARS. Five decades. A half-century. The golden anniversary. However it is said, the 2023 – 2024 season marks a significant milestone for Syracuse Stage. Since 1974, Syracuse Stage has continuously produced (Covid included) world class, professional theatre right here at the corner of East Genesee Street and Irving Avenue. As a not-for-profit professional company in residence at Syracuse University, the theatre has also been integral to the success of the Department of Drama and a valuable resource for area elementary and high schools and community organizations. Five artistic leaders—Arthur Storch, Tazewell Thompson, Robert Moss, Tim Bond, and Robert Hupp—have guided the company through fifty years of wide-ranging theatrical experiences, all for the enjoyment and enrichment of the Central New York Community.
LISTEN:
In honor of the 50th anniversary season, Jim Clark joins host Melissa Crespo to talk about his leadership tenure at Syracuse Stage.
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LEADERSHIP AT SYRACUSE STAGE
1974 - PRESENT
Arthur Storch
Producing Artistic Director
1974 - 1992
Tazewell Thompson
Artistic Director
1992 - 1995
Robert Moss
Artistic Director
1996 - 2007
Timothy Bond
Producing Artistic Director
2007 - 2016
Robert Hupp
Artistic Director
2016 - present
James A. Clark
Managing Director
1976 - 1992; Producing Director
1992 - 2008
Jeffrey Woodward
Managing Director
2008 - 2016
Jill A. Anderson
Managing Director
2016 - present
Michael Donald Edwards
Associate Artistic Director
2002 - 2006
Kyle Bass
Associate Artistic Director
2016 - 2021 (currently Resident Playwright)
Melissa Crespo
Associate Artistic Director
2021 - present
Barry Snider (l) and John Carpenter (c) and members of the company in Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty. Season: 1974. Director: Arthur Storch. Photo: Robert Lorenz.
Rita Gam as Arkadina and Mark Winkworth as Trepleff in Anton Chekhov’s The Sea Gull. Season: 1976 – 1977. Director: Arthur Storch. Photo: Robert Lorenz.
Dorothy Fielding as Stella, Virginia Kiser as Blanche Dubois, and David Canary as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Season: 1976 – 1977. Director: John Going. Photo: Robert Lorenz.
Haskell Gordon as Sir Toby Belch, Alan Krass as Malvolio and Bobo Lewis as Maria in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Season: 1976 – 1977. Director: Bill Ludel. Photo: Robert Lorenz.
Virgil Roberson, Tazewell Thompson, Lisa Pelikan, and David Wohl in William Gibson’s The Butterfingers Angel. Season: 1978 – 1979. Director: Arthur Storch. Photo: Robert Lorenz.
Alan Mixon as George and Meg Myles as Martha in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Season: 1979 – 1980. Director: Terry Schreiber. Photo: Robert Lorenz.
Matthew Kimbrough as Lennie and Alexandra Neil as Curley’s Wife in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Season: 1986 – 1987. Director: Arthur Storch. Photo: Lawrence Mason, Jr.
Members of the company in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Season: 1980 – 1981. Director: Arthur Storch. Photo: Robert Lorenz.
John Cullum as Cyrano, seated, with Lisabeth Bartlett as Roxane and Marcus Smythe as Christian above in Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Emily Frankel. Season: 1983 – 1984. Director: Arthur Storch. Photo: Susan Piper Kublick.
John Newton as Mr. Fisher, Lloyd Brass as Joe, Orson Bean as Aubrey Piper, and Jean Stapleton as Mrs. Fisher in The Show-Off by George Kelly. Season: 1983 – 1984. Director: William H. Putch. Photo: Susan Piper Kublick.
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