THEATERS AND SHOWS

By Mike Desmond

Curtain Up! 2025 is offering an array of shows on and off Main Street.

The biggest change is in Shea’s 710 Theatre, after a $5 million renovation at one entrance of the Theatre District. The future new home of MusicalFare Theatre is currently showing “Dreamgirls.”

Shea’s 710

“Dreamgirls”

This is Michael Bennett’s classic show, a rousing, tuneful look at three young women trying to make their way in the bizarre world of top-level music. Local native Bennett turned a story into a show, filled with music, dancing and off-stage conniving.

Alleyway Theatre

“The Cottage”

Sandy Rustin’s comic look at love and adultery in a group of rich and entitled English families a century ago.

Irish Classical Theatre

“Or,”

A modern Restoration comedy about a rare woman playwright entangled in the sensual and violent world of King Charles II while just trying to finish a new play and get out of debtor’s prison.

Road Less Traveled Theatre

“The Book of Will”

A look at the group of friends and co-performers of William Shakespeare who worked to put together the First Folio, the collection of his plays which has come down to us as the scripts they worked with in The King’s Men theater company.

Shea’s Buffalo Theatre

“The Outsiders”

A musical look at S.E. Hinton’s classic novel about growing up across the tracks.

Buffalo United Artists/Compass Center for the Performing Arts

“The Last Croissant”

Camping in the woods seems a great idea, although there are risks out there.

Ujima Theatre

“Godspell”

A musical version of the last weeks of Jesus Christ as told in the Gospel Book of Matthew.

D’Youville Kavinoky Theatre

“The Game of Love and Chance”

Two young people trying to get to know the person they will soon be married, under parental order. Comedy ensues in this French comedy, nearly three centuries old.

Theatre of Youth

Curtain Up! For kids.

Future theatergoers get to learn about theater and try some of it out. That’s Sunday morning.

For information on most of the major theater companies in the Buffalo area, check out the website of the Theatre Alliance of Buffalo.