The Redhouse Arts Center began when a small group of local artists decided to search for a home. In August of 2001, they found it. Though old and neglected, the three-story brick building had character and potential. It needed major renovations and in September of 2002 a capital campaign was launched to raise the $1.4 million required to transform a former boarding house into a home for the arts. In July 2004, Red House first opened its doors to the public.

We’re Moving!!

That’s right! We’ve outgrown our little house on the concrete island and will be moving into the old Sibley’s department store building at the heart of downtown. Missed our press conference? Check out the renderings below! Click here to view the presentation shared at the press conference.

Come See The Oscar Wilde Rep Series!
Save $10 When You Purchase 3 Shows in Rep!

Click the photos below to see more from Gross Indecency (left),
The Man Of No Importance (center) and The Importance of Being Earnest (right)!

 

What’s Happening Now?

Redhouse Gone Wilde! - A Man of No Importance

with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and book by Terrance Mcnally.

This exquisite musical tells the story of Alfie Byrne, a bus driver in 1964 Dublin, whose heart holds secrets he can't share with anyone but his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde. A tender and beautifully woven tale of love, friendship and coming to terms with who we are.

Wed/Thurs $25/$15 Fri/Sat. $30/$20
Rated PG13



Jan. 21 @ 7:30pm
Jan. 23 @ 8:00pm
Jan. 24 @ 2:00pm
Jan. 29 @ 7:30pm
Jan. 31 @ 8:00pm
Feb 4 @ 7:30pm
Feb 6 @ 8:00pm
Feb 7 @ 2pm

This show is part of our Rep series! Be sure to check out all three Rep shows this season!

Redhouse Gone Wilde! – Gross Indecency

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moisés Kaufman.

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship.

Wed/Thurs $25/$15 Fri/Sat. $30/$20



High School and Up

Jan. 22 @ 7:30pm
Jan. 24 @ 8:00pm
Jan. 28 @ 7:30pm
Jan. 30 @ 8:00pm
Jan. 31 @ 2:00pm
Feb. 5 @ 7:30pm
Feb. 7 @ 8:00pm

This show is part of our Rep series! Be sure to check out all three Rep shows this season!

Redhouse Gone Wilde! – The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of "manufactured" mistaken identity ever put into a play.

Tickets: $10 - Also part of the LAB Series
PG13



Jan. 29, 30, 31 @ 8:00pm
Feb. 1 @ 2:00pm
Feb . 5, 6, 7 @ 8:00pm
Feb. 8 @ 2:00pm

This show is part of our Rep series! Be sure to check out all three Rep shows this season!

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What’s Coming Up Soon?

Marissa Mulder: Live In Concert

Marissa Mulder returns to Redhouse after two sold out shows last season! This Valentines Day she brings her award-winning show Tom Waits…in his Words to the Redhouse Stage. Don’t miss Mulder's mesmerizing performance of songs and stories written by the infamously dark, quirky, and deeply moving Tom Waits. Mulder is a Syracuse native who has become one of the hottest young cabaret artists on the NYC scene. She has performed at Lincoln Center, The Carlyle,Carnegie Hall, and Joe’s Pub to name a few and was voted “Rising Star of the Year” by TimeOut NY


February 13 at 8PM




February 14 at 8PM




Tickets: $30 | $20


Call the Box Office at 315-362-2785 for more information about this event.

Sing The 60's With Folkstrings

With Special Guest: Alan Taylor

Sing-a-long with songs by Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger,
Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, John Denver, the Beatles and more.

SUNDAY - FEBRUARY 15

2-4PM

TICKETS: $10

Material Witness by Spiderwoman Theater

Spiderwoman Theater's work bridges the traditional cultural art forms of storytelling, dance, and music and the practice of contemporary Western theater.

February 19, 20 & 21 at 8PM
Tickets: $20 | $15 Members

LAB Series: How I Learned To Drive

By Paula Vogel

Directed By: Stephfond Brunson

Through a series of flashbacks, this play follows the strained, sexual relationship between Li'l Bit and her aunt's husband, Uncle Peck, from her adolescence through her teenage years into college and beyond. Using the metaphor of driving and the issues of pedophilia, incest, and misogyny, the play explores the ideas of control and manipulation.

Tickets: $10 - LAB Series



March 13th (8pm)
March 14th (8pm)
March 15th (Sunday 2pm)

Broadway Bound

by Neil Simon

This rib-tickling and heart-wrenching play tells the story a young man who tries to tackle television as a comedy writer while watching the deteriorating marriage of his parents and a grandfather who marches to his own drummer. Truly one of Neil Simon's finest plays.

Wed/Thurs $25/$15 Fri/Sat. $30/$20
PG13



March 19 @ 7:30pm - $15 Preview
March 20 @ 8:00pm – Opening Night
March 21 @ 2:00pm & 8:00pm
March 25, 26 @ 7:30pm
March 27 @ 8:00pm
March 28 @ 2:00pm & 8:00pm

Seussical: The Musical

Book By Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
Music By Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics By Lynn Ahrens
Conceived By Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle

Based on the works of Dr. Seuss


April 3oth @ 7:30
May 2nd @ 8:00
May 3rd @ 11:00 am
May 8th @ 8:00
May 9th @ 2:00
May 15th @ 8:00
May 16th @ 2:00
May 17th @ 11:00 am


Call the Box Office at 315.362.2785 for more information about this event, or to purchase tickets.

Carousel

Music by Richard Rodgers and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein

Celebrated as one of the greatest musicals of the 20th Century, this classic depicts the extraordinary journey of traveling carnival man Billy Bigelow and millworker Julie Jordan and their unlikely romance.

Fri/Sat/Sun. $30/$20
PG13

June 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 @ 8:00pm
Location TBA

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Who We Are:

Executive Artistic Director

[Stephen Svoboda]

Stephen is currently the Artistic Director for the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts and the Executive Artistic Director of redhouse Arts Center. Previously, he served as a professor in the Theatre Arts Department at the University of Miami where he was head of the B.F.A. program in Directing and Playwriting and the Artistic Director of Miami’s Fresco Productions. He is also the director of the University of Miami Summer Theater Academy, an eight-week summer intensive theater program for children in kindergarten through eleventh grade. His play, Odysseus Died From AIDS, was developed in Miami and received it’s world premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival, where the production was awarded “Best Ensemble.” Odysseus Died From AIDS was published in the anthology Plays and Playwrights 2005, by the New York Theatre Experience, and received it’s international premier in 2007 in Athens, Greece with a subsequent production in Seoul, South Korea in 2008. His second play, The Penguin Tango, premiered at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival in the Actor’s Playhouse.

The production was extended as part of the Fringe Encore Series in the Lion Theater at Theatre Row. His most recent production, Reconstructing Mama, a new musical written with N. David Williams, premiered Off-Broadway at the Theatre Row Studios in August 2006. In March 2011, the Redhouse production of Odysseus DOA had a limited engagement run at Theatre Row Studios in NYC. Stephen works internationally with the Harambe Project to help do HIV/AIDS education, prevention and orphan care throughout Africa.

Artistic Associate

[Laura Austin]

Laura is the founder and Artistic Director of redhouse Arts Center located in Syracuse, NY. In 2003, she developed and implemented the redhouse Capital Campaign, which raised 1.4 million and she managed the renovations of a three story historic building in Downtown Armory Square. Since that time under Austin’s artistic direction, this state of the art facility has hosted over 300 events in theatre, film, visual art and music. In the first year of operation, Austin secured 200 new redhouse members and developed a widely successful individual donor base which she continues to be cultivated today.

Over the last 4 seasons, Laura has overseen the production of 16 plays at Redhouse in which her responsibilities have spanned selecting, casting commissioning, directing, acting, promoting and fundraising. She has served as a board member for numerous arts organizations both nationally and internationally. Locally, Laura served on the Cultural Resources Council, Syracuse School of Architecture, Skaneateles Festival, The Sarah G. Austin Foundation and the Allyn Foundation. Laura has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Acting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

She is an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity. Her extended study includes work at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, The Hartford Conservatory, Nikolais Louis Dance Theatre, La Mama, Second City, Terry Shreiber, Stella Adler and Howard Fine Studios and Trinity College where she earned the President’s Fellowship Award Theatre and Dance. Austin’s performing  career encompasses television and film work in Los Angeles and Off-Broadway and regional theatre work throughout the country and abroad. Laura focuses on program planning, booking, contracts, casting and development for The Redhouse.

Meet Our Team

Samara Hannah [Managing Director]
BA in Mathematics, MS in Management
Her redhouse Story: Samara joined the Redhouse in September 2014 bringing
professional experience from private industry, government, higher-education, not-for-profits and the arts.
Surprise Me: She eats (needs) a bit of chocolate everyday.
Contact Her: samara@theredhouse.org 315.362.2789

Patrick Burns [Resident Music Director]
His redhouse Story:Patrick first came to the Redhouse to perform his one-man-musical
From Foster Care to Fabulous. The following season he returned to conduct and perform in
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and is very excited to continue to work on new projects!.
Surprise Me:In addition to being a playwright, actor and musician,
Patrick is an activist for current and former foster youth.
Contact Him: patrick.burns13@gmail.com

David Cotter

David Cotter [Fellowship Coordinator& Educational Tour Coordinator]
BM in Music Education
His redhouse Story:David joined redED as a teacher in 2012 and has taught classes for
nearly every education program and is seen regularly in the mainstage season.
Surprise Me:David has worked with members of the Henson family, cast members
of both Sesame Street and Avenue Q and has a knack for puppetry which
has been featured in several redhouse productions.
Contact Him: david@theredhouse.org

Keirsten Burrows [Graphic Design | Website Manager]
BA Graphic Design, AAS Music Performance
Her redhouse Story:Keirsten joined us in August 2014 after she impressed our
artistic director with her illustrative design work, and has been designing ever since.
Surprise Me:In addition to being a web/ graphic designer and illustrator, Keirsten has
had her fair share of daring adventures. To name a few: Jumped off a 35-foot bridge
and polar bear swam in icy/ iced over water.
Contact Her: keirsten@theredhouse.org

Holly Falso [Box Office Manager/Marketing Associate]
Contact Her: holly@theredhouse.org

Marguerite Mitchell [Education Director]
BS English Education, BA English Literature, MS Arts Administration
Her redhouse Story: Marguerite joined redhouse in 2011, and currently manages all
educational programming and community outreach. She also performs in the theater’s productions
and will be directing a show as part of the organization’s LAB Series.
Surprise Me: She studied English Literature and writing in Norwich, UK for seven months,
where she read plays, wrote poems, and drank unhealthy amounts of amazing coffee.
Contact Her: marguerite@theredhouse.org   315.362.2788

Joshua Reid [Redhouse Production Manager & Asst. Technical Director, LAB Series Technical Director]
BA Music Industry with Audio Arts Concentration
His redhouse Story: Joshua joined The redhouse in 2012 and gained the titles of
mainstage Sound Designer and redhouse Regulars Series lighting designer.
He is now the Assistant Technical Director, and the Technical Director
for our LAB Series productions.
Surprise Me: Anything involving RUSH, he is on board.
Contact Him: josh@theredhouse.org

Our Board

Board Chair: Bill Hider
Board Members:
Russ Acevedo
W. S. Allyn
Laila Kobrossy Audi
Peter Blanck
Wendy Blanck
Sean Branagan
Thomas Cary
Binaifer Dabu
Michael Featherstone
Thom Felicia
Linda Dickerson Hartsock
James Horan
Mary Lerner
John Liddy
Kirsten Marshall
Eileen Nealon
Maureen Harrington O'Neill
Jeff Unaitis
John Valentino