American Fiction

Cinema Capitol

Friday, March 15: 3:45PM & 7PM
Saturday, March 16: 3:45PM & 7PM
Sunday, March 17: 12:45 and 4PM
Monday, March 18: 7PM

“American Fiction” won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, a triumph for writer-director Cord Jefferson, whose publishing-industry satire marks his first ever feature film.
Monk is a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Rome Arts Hall of Fame
Induction Ceremony

Class of 2024
Sunday, May 5 • 4pm

The Inductees have been named. Click here to see the list.

Reporter Hannah Parks Reports:

2024 SAMMY Awards in Syracuse.

 

Singer songwriter Sydney Irving, wins the 2024, SAMMY award for best Pop record, with the album Unfashioned Creatures

The Syracuse Music Awards, also known as the SAMMYs, was held on Friday, March eighth at the Palace Theatre in Syracuse. Of the many awards for outstanding musical work was the category for best Pop record. The 2024, winner is Sydney Irving. This award will add to her growing list of local and national recognitions.

Sydney and her band, The Mojo, will be hosting, CNY Onstage Lyve , on the Rome Capitol Theatre stage, May 11.

 

Capitol Theatre • CNY Onstage Live

Saturday, May 11, 2024 • 7:00

On Saturday, May 11, the Rome Capitol Theatre will present: CNY Onstage Live, an entertainment showcase. We are looking for entertainers of all types for this concert to benefit the Capitol Arts Complex. The full concert production system of lights and sound pictured in the video and seen at the recent 38 Special and Mr. Big concerts will be used for this show. And to top it off, there will be a multi camera video team capturing the evening for a TV special which will be made available online streaming.
The show will be hosted by Sydney Irving and will feature the band Sydney Irving and the Mojo and others. If you would like to be part of the show, Click here.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World at the Capitol Theatre

Saturday March 30 • 1:30pm & 6:45

The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he’s buried a fortune in stolen loot, under the Big W. All of the motorists set out to find the fortune.

Current and Upcoming Movies and Shows

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