As you enter the Andrews Theatre, the ceiling is dripping with candles and the seats are bathed in blood-red lighting. Eerie sounds – can we call it music? – fill […]
The Ujima Theatre Company is beginning its 46th season with a stand-out production of “The African Company Presents Richard III,” a play about a Black theater company in the 1800s that never reached such a milestone.
By Elmer PloetzEditor-in-Chief The calendar may say fall is a week or so away, but in Western New York you can tell that it has arrived when the theater season […]
The “Aladdin” parody from O’Connell & Co., playing for two weeks in Shea’s Smith Theatre, is recommended for audiences aged 16. That is not because of its hard-hitting condemnation of […]
As soon as Christina Rausa and Julie Kittsley came paddling out onto the (extraordinarily effective) stage at Alleyway Theatre, I thought “I know these women. They are my friends!”
By Melinda Miller Buffalo United Artists’ season opener “Monsters of the American Cinema” is scary good. With just two actors and no vampires, mummies or wolfmen in sight, it invites […]
By Melinda Miller It takes a special kind of alchemy to turn a divisive cultural issue into a gleefully funny entertainment and, apparently, they have a bottle of the stuff at […]
There’s no other time of year quite like this, when the change of seasons is so sharply marked. The ending of summer, of long days and warm nights, always seems much more sudden than, say, winter’s often overlong goodbye.
Image above (c) Joan Marcus Shea’s Buffalo Theatre has announced that single ticket sales for its October run of “Hamilton” will open Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Shea’s Box […]
By Melinda Miller The second show of every Shakespeare in Delaware Park season often has a different quality to it. Mid-summer evenings feel more settled. The atmosphere is warmer and […]
