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Chenango River Theater is presenting David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, directed by former Chenango River...
09/11/2026

Chenango River Theater is presenting David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof, directed by former Chenango River Theater artistic director Bill Lelbach. Lelbach founded the company in 2007 and served as its artistic and managing director through 2021. He says the play’s story is particularly meaningful to him.

“This storyline is sort of close to home,” Lelbach said. “It won the Pulitzer Prize, it won multiple Tonys, and it’s a story about math and about the people who, in their brilliance at math, border on” mental illness.

The play centers on Robert, a brilliant mathematician who has developed schizophrenia, and his daughter Catherine, who has spent the last several years caring for him. Lelbach says the story draws on the real-life mathematician John Nash, whose life was portrayed in the film A Beautiful Mind.

“By the time he was 23, he solved three math problems that were hundreds of years, decades old, that had never been solved before,” Lelbach said. “It took committees of brilliant mathematicians to analyze his solutions and to realize that they were right.”

Read more at wskg.org/arts

Another Steuben County resident has tested positive for measles. That brings the total number of cases in the county to ...
09/10/2026

Another Steuben County resident has tested positive for measles. That brings the total number of cases in the county to 10 since Aug. 18, when the health department reported its first case.

Read the full article at WSKG.org.

Reporting by Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo and Natalie Abruzzo/WSKG News
Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP

The Broome County Arts Council is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a new event designed to showcase the breadth of ...
09/10/2026

The Broome County Arts Council is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a new event designed to showcase the breadth of the local arts community. The first Broome Arts Festival will bring artists, musicians, performers and families together on State Street in Binghamton this month.

Broome County Arts Council Executive Director Jenny Chang says the festival grew out of the council's efforts to find new ways to connect local artists with the community.

“Ever since we started opening up a gallery back in 2018, we've been trying very hard to think of creative ways to connect with the community more,” Chang said.

The council has organized programs including the First Friday Art Walk and the Broome Arts Art Trail, a countywide open-studio event. Chang says the new festival gives local artists an opportunity to reach a larger audience in one place.

“All these wonderful local artists that we have in our county, and even some artists in the nearby counties, they really, really wish to share the same type of visibility, the crowd,” she said. “So we're bringing all of them down onto State Street, lining them up like an art market.”

Read more at wskg.org/arts

Ten survivors of 9/11 reflect on the lasting effects of that day and share how, more than two decades later, they contin...
09/10/2026

Ten survivors of 9/11 reflect on the lasting effects of that day and share how, more than two decades later, they continue to find resilience and hope. Watch Surviving 9/11: Where We Stand on WSKG at 9pm on Friday, September 11th.

Know Theatre in Binghamton is bringing back Ken Davenport’s play My First Time, a collection of stories about first expe...
09/10/2026

Know Theatre in Binghamton is bringing back Ken Davenport’s play My First Time, a collection of stories about first experiences that range from funny and awkward to poignant and heartbreaking.

Know Theatre artistic director Tim Gleason says the play seems particularly appropriate at a time when society can feel increasingly divided.

“We all have had a first time,” Gleason says. “We all have a story, good, bad, or indifferent, that every other person has.”

The play grew out of a website created in 1996 by Peter Foldy and Craig Stewart, who invited people to anonymously submit stories about their first experiences. Davenport later selected stories from the site and turned them into an Off-Broadway play, which premiered in New York in 2007.

Gleason says the stories remain remarkably relatable.

“Every first time is not wonderful,” he says. “So we cover the gamut from funny to silly to poignant and heartbreaking.”

Read more at wskg.org/arts

Three big festivals are going on across the region this week, starting with LUMA in Binghamton. Now in its eleventh year...
09/09/2026

Three big festivals are going on across the region this week, starting with LUMA in Binghamton. Now in its eleventh year, LUMA* is a projection arts festival taking over downtown for two nights. Local, national, and international artists will have their works projected onto the facade of local buildings, including work by students from across Broome County. Things kick off at 8:30 on Friday and Saturday nights and continue past midnight. This event is free and open to the public.

In Ithaca, it’s the sixth annual Ithaca is Books Festival*, a collaboration between Ithaca’s local independent bookstores and the Tompkins County Public Library. This festival brings in top tier national authors and puts them in conversation with local authors. There’s also tons of workshops, panel discussions, and family-friendly activities. And a book fair on the Ithaca Commons all weekend!

And in Norwich, this weekend is Colorscape, a free, curated festival of art, music, and more. Over a hundred artists, plus three stages of performers will go on all weekend at East and West Parks in downtown Norwich. This event draws over ten thousand people to town each year!

Please note that all three of these fests are rain or shine. Fingers crossed.

Find out more at wskg.org/locallysourced

NYS Baroque is taking audiences to 18th-century Paris with a program of music from the French Baroque, featuring works b...
09/09/2026

NYS Baroque is taking audiences to 18th-century Paris with a program of music from the French Baroque, featuring works by both French and visiting composers.

Deborah Fox, who plays theorbo with NYS Baroque, says Paris was a city of dramatic contrasts during the period.

“Paris was rapidly growing, and it was becoming the second largest city in Europe after London in the early 18th century. And it was a city of great contrasts, and there was incredible excessive wealth at the palace and at court, and also great poverty and terrible conditions that eventually, at the end of the century, led to the French Revolution.”The music on the program, however, reflects a very different side of life in Paris.

“You don’t hear any idea of revolution coming,” Fox says. “You just hear a real flowering of incredible music.”

The concert features music by composers including Georg Philipp Telemann, Michel Blavet, Marin Marais, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, and Jean-Marie Leclair. Although Telemann was German, he was invited to Paris in the 1730s, where he collaborated with a group of French musicians.

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WSKG was at the Montour Falls Memorial Library this past Wed evening for Storytime and an Art Project with Ms Shannah. W...
09/09/2026

WSKG was at the Montour Falls Memorial Library this past Wed evening for Storytime and an Art Project with Ms Shannah. We read the Book, Peterrific (brother to Pinkaliscious) and built a "tower to the Moon" using paper rolls and colorful tape. We talked about making plans for sturdy construction and practiced drawing skills with adding elements like fire to our towers. WSKG will be back at the Montour Falls Library on Sept 30th from 6-7pm. Keep an eye on our website for details and other Library visits coming up!

Join WSKG and WCNY at the State Theatre of Ithaca on September 17th for a block party to celebrate the premiere of a new...
09/04/2026

Join WSKG and WCNY at the State Theatre of Ithaca on September 17th for a block party to celebrate the premiere of a new documentary about Ithaca's PORCHFEST! Live music, food and beverages for sale, and tons of Porchfest vibes.

This event is free but pre-registration is suggested.

Join us at the WSKG Studios on September 29th at 6pm for a screening and cooking demonstration. We'll be showing an epis...
09/04/2026

Join us at the WSKG Studios on September 29th at 6pm for a screening and cooking demonstration. We'll be showing an episode of PATI JINICH EXPLORES PANAMERICANA followed by a cooking demo from Dapoer Indonesian Restaurant.

This event is free, but space is limited and pre-registration is required.

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