Openers! The first round of plays for the new season
Buffalo Theater: The season is kicking off
Shea’s Buffalo
Buena Vista Social Club.
First performances of a show which rehearsed here and will be going on a national tour. The show is built around Cuban music and Cuban history from the 1950s and the 1990s, before Fidel Castro took power and then many years afterwards.
710 Main Street Theatre
MusicalFare Theatre
Hair
MusicalFare is opening its first full season in the Downtown Theatre District with the musical built around the turmoil of the Vietnam War, the “Age of Aquarius.”
Alleyway Theatre
Becky Shaw
Alleyway is opening with a “dark comedy” about a blind date which gets “cringey.”
Irish Classical Theatre Company
Emma
Kate Hamill’s stage version of the classic Jane Austen novel about a matchmaker in an age of restrictions for women which spirals into comedy.
Road Less Traveled Theatre
The Da Vinci Code
A stage version of the Dan Brown Novel and the Tom Hanks movie.
Lorna C. Hill Theatre
“Juicy and Delicious”
Ujima Company is presenting Lucy Alibar’s “Juicy and Delicious,” a story of loss and coming of age.
Compass Performing Arts Factory
Buffalo United Artists
Gulp! The Gay Beach Musical
The local premiere of one of the earliest queer musicals, this is set on a Coney Island beach on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
Kavinoky Theatre
A Night with Janis Joplin
A musical look at a musician perhaps best known for her performance at Woodstock.
O’Connell & Company
Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center
Guys & Dolls
A classic Broadway musical about gamblers and con men and a trip to Havana.
