The Footlights blog gives readers a glimpse behind the scenes at Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta, NY. On this blog, you'll read news about upcoming performances, interviews with artists, reviews and the occasional cultural rant.

It's all part of our mission to bring more fearless performances to the Central and Southern Tier regions of New York. We invite you to be a part of that quest.

Tell Us How We Are Doing

We invite you to post on our blog; perhaps about a show or event you have been to at Foothills, or perhaps about something you would like to see at Foothills.

Please be candid with your posts. We want to hear what you are thinking about us and what we are or aren’t accomplishing [...]

“Portraits on the Page”

Barbara Apoian, were she a man, would be described as “one heavy dude.” She is cosmopolitan, intelligent, witty, well-informed, articulate, well-read, and wields one mean pen. And we don’t mean maybe. (She also happens to be extraordinarily open and modest, which, in our experience, is normally unheard of with such attributes.)

Two years ago she entranced [...]