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March 27th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
A very talented cast performs in the high energy 20th anniversary tour of Jonathan Larson’s rock opera, Rent, this week at Shea’s. Loosely based on Puccini’s opera La Bohème about 19th century starving…
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March 23rd, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Jimmy Janowski is superb as nine different characters in the one man show The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, a Buffalo United Artists production now at Alleyway Theatre. Wearing loose grey pants and shirt, Mr. Janowski…
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March 22nd, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Parade is a Tony and Drama Desk award-winning musical based on the 1913 trial of pencil factory superintendent Leo Frank for the rape and murder of 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan, and subsequent events in Atlanta, Georgia.…
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March 16th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Edreys Wajed is a Buffalo poet and visual artist, among his other artistic talents. His poem, “The Sidewalk,” is the inspiration for the compelling new play at Paul Robeson Theatre, The Sidewalk Stageplay. In the…
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March 15th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Just when you think you know where Between Riverside and Crazy is heading, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis veers off in an unexpected direction. The play is chock full of surprises that are emotional, comic, and occasionally…
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March 2nd, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
In 1977, David Frost and Richard Nixon contracted to do a series of televised interviews covering domestic and foreign policy, Nixon’s personal life, and of course, Watergate. Frost was a hedonistic talk show host thirsting…
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February 27th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
The most powerful images in Miss Saigon evoke a sense of horror at the cost of war to the people whose lives are disrupted and destroyed by it, while others, seen and unseen, profit greatly. The fall of Saigon in April 1975,…
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February 23rd, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
When Cosmo Vitelli steps out onto the floor to welcome the audience to his nightclub at the opening of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, the air is shrouded in fog and a seedy-looking curtain is drawn across the stage behind him.…
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February 21st, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Watching Ragtime at MusicalFare Theatre brings to mind the adage "the more things change, the more they remain the same." Set in the early 20th century in the northeast, the three central families in the musical embody issues…
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February 17th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Almost, Maine is a delightful, charming, and very clever concoction of eight-plus scenes. It is a sweet, bittersweet, sad, and at times laugh-out-loud funny riff on the human heart in its many permutations. Produced by Road Less…
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February 9th, 2019 by Marti Gorman
Review by Kevin M. Cox Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning (1980) play, Talley’s Folly, opened this week at The Jewish Repertory Theatre, proving once again to be timeless and powerful. The set is a strikingly…
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February 6th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Cats, now at Shea’s, is a visually and aurally striking phantasm, an inventive confection that includes stunning balletic and acrobatic choreography performed with feline grace by first-rate terpsichoreans, imaginative…
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February 2nd, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Tales of the Driven is the premiere of a play written and directed by Subversive Theatre founder and Artistic Director, Kurt Schneiderman. On its website, the theater quotes Bertolt Brecht: “Art is not a mirror to reflect…
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January 28th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Native Son at Paul Robeson Theatre is 90 powerful minutes of intense and compelling theater. At the center of this thought-provoking abstract play is a brilliant performance by Alphonso Walker, Jr. as Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old…
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January 27th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Sense & Sensibility at Irish Classical Theatre is still very much a Jane Austen experience, but it seems as though that lady might have ingested a steroid with her tea, or perhaps even a psychedelic or two. Playright Kate…
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January 19th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Magic. Illusion. Love. Betrayal. Regret. These universal themes are at the center of The Illusion, adapted by Tony Kushner from L’Illusion Comique by 17th century playwright Pierre Corneille. Comique it is, and full of…
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January 12th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
Spamalot, now at the Kavinoky Theatre, is about as much fun as one can have at the theater. There was so much laughter in the house opening night that it filled the entire room, then leaked out into the newly remodeled lobby,…
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January 6th, 2019 by Ann Marie Cusella
“The moon is terrible” declares young Emily as she gazes out her window in Act One of Our Town. It is fierce, intense, awful to the moonstruck girl as she feels the first flush of romantic love toward her neighbor,…
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December 16th, 2018 by Ann Marie Cusella
There is some very snappy tap dancing along with classic songs like The Boy Next Door, The Trolley Song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and Meet Me in St. Louis in the production of Meet Me in St. Louis: A Live Radio…
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December 9th, 2018 by Ann Marie Cusella
If you are in or near despair about the state of our country with The Donald in the White House daily tweeting venom to the masses and threatening the very foundations of our democracy, take heart. Todd Warfield has “redacted…
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December 8th, 2018 by Ann Marie Cusella
Mary Bennet is having an existential crisis, and she is quite at a loss as to what to do about it. The middle of the five sisters in the Bennet family of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mary is the not-very-attractive…
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December 1st, 2018 by Ann Marie Cusella
Raices Theatre Company’s new production is the English language premiere of Barcelo on the Rocks, a play by Marco Antonio Rodriguez. It opened at the Manny Fried Playhouse Friday, November 30th to a sold-out audience, with…
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November 22nd, 2018 by Ann Marie Cusella
Hamilton has arrived at Shea’s Buffalo in a stunning production that is seamless and riveting from start to finish. It is a magical night of theater, transporting us back in time while maintaining a very modern sensibility…
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November 18th, 2018 by Ann Marie Cusella
MusicalFare Theatre has a hit on its hands, or more aptly boards, with the world premiere of Christmas Over the Tavern by Buffalo native Tom Dudzick. We Buffalonians love plays about ourselves, particularly ones that speak to…
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November 9th, 2018 by Ann Marie Cusella
Irish angst is center stage at Irish Classical Theatre in their excellent production of the popular Irish play, Sive, by John B. Keane. Written in 1959, the play is an exploration of how years of grinding poverty and the misery…
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