Reading this on your phone? Download our new app on Google Play and the Apple store. GENESEO – Four bands run by college students hoping to start a regional music scene in the Village are currently booked into the newly renovated Riviera Theater for a night of music on Saturday, May 2. According to SUNY Geneseo student Jessica Beneway, who is helping to organize the event with fellow student Keara Doyle, three of the groups are Soft Cough, … [Read more...]
Rorbachs’ Love Letters Come to Life Onstage at Riviera
GENESEO – The newly renovated and beautifully restored Riviera Theater on Center Street threw its first public event on Valentine's Day as historic and touching letters between Colonel John Rorbach and his young wife, Elizabeth Vance, dating back to the Civil War. The sampled, theatrical reading of these letters, sent from the home front and from the battlefield, drew a packed house to the Riviera to revel in a love story between a colonel … [Read more...]