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October 25th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
In The Bodyguard, now at Shea’s Performing Arts Center, there are some terrific and very well known songs that are sung by two women and one boy who are so talented and charismatic that you cannot help but fall in love…
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October 20th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
I saw a very smart, very witty, complex, thought-provoking play at American Repertory Theater of Western New York (hereafter to be referred to as ART of WNY) on opening night. If you like that sort of thing, you’ll love…
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October 17th, 2017 by Joe Kirchmyer
"We think our father murdered our mother,” a woman tells police in Chased By Thunder. Twenty-eight years earlier, young housewife Donna Burgard was stabbed to death. No killer was captured, although her husband…
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October 17th, 2017 by Joe Kirchmyer
Fresh off a successful first Collectors’ Expo in September, a second Collectors & Artisans Expo has been scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 10, in the historic Buffalo Irish Center, 245 Abbott Road, South…
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October 16th, 2017 by Joe Kirchmyer
Popular event to feature Food Truck Rodeo, expanded Tavern, Brian Moorman’s P.U.N.T. Foundation and 40 new artisans An iconic Western New York tradition, the Christmas in the Country Holiday Artisan Market will celebrate…
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October 12th, 2017 by Marti Gorman
Do not miss this flick. I am not a movie critic, and I don't even play one on TV, but I can absolutely assure you that you need to see Marshall. I scored a last-minute ticket to the Buffalo premiere of this excellent film last…
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October 11th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
There are likeable and funny moments in Menopause the Musical, which opened Tuesday night at Shea’s 710 Main Theatre. The art deco set with its four doors that double as rest room stalls and changing rooms at Bloomingdales…
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October 1st, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
You may have seen Easter bunnies, fluffy bunnies, and funny bunnies, but you have never seen a bunny like Bunnicula, the vampire bunny now stalking the celery at Theatre of Youth. Chester the cat knows what the bunny is up to,…
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September 24th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
On Your Feet! exploded onto the stage at Shea’s opening night with colored lights flashing all around the house, Latin music pumping from the orchestra on stage, and dancers moving so rapidly to the beat of that incredible…
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September 23rd, 2017 by Cindy Mantai
Until today, I had never walked the 1.06-mile trail around Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park. I had an interesting companion on my journey: an audio tour, sponsored by M&T Bank, explaining the significance of eight landmarks in…
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September 23rd, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
Sons & Lovers is a new comedy by Donna Hoke about coming out of closets – the ones that LGBTQ folks have been in, and also the oh-my-god-I’m-50-and-look-at-my-life closet. Bill is 24 and everyone he knows knows…
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September 16th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
Noel Coward is a brilliant writer. He is clever, witty, biting, and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny. His style begs for ninety minutes of very tight, crisp dialogue to go along with the sometimes outrageous behavior of his shallow…
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September 14th, 2017 by Marti Gorman
My parents met in the Green Room at Hobart-William Smith. She was a WASP from Buffalo, he was a second-generation Irish immigrant and Korean War vet from Massachusetts. They both loved the theatre, and they both loved to drink.…
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September 10th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
There is nothing fast-paced about John by award winning playwright Annie Baker, Road Less Traveled Theater’s season-opening production. John meanders along with seemingly unrelated conversations, with pauses in sentences,…
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September 8th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
The world premiere of Roommates by local playwright Mark Humphrey opened Thursday at American Repertory Theater of Western New York. This short, three character two act play is a riff on fear, trust, responsibility, predators…
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September 7th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
Peter and the Starcatcher is a lively, almost carefree romp that tells the backstory of Peter Pan in a very un-J.M. Barrie-like manner. Based on the novel by humorist Dave Barry and novelist Ridley Pearson, and written for the…
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August 16th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Shea’s Performing Arts Center through Sunday is, in a word, a delight. Having neither seen the movie, nor any previous stage production of this very famous and popular musical, I had…
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August 10th, 2017 by Marti Gorman
For years while living out West, I found myself sniffing out bodies of water, squealing in delight if I spied a lake in the distance or a sparkle of blue at the end of a street. On trips to any coastal city I invariably indulged…
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August 7th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
When Andre Sills as BJJ, the alter-ego of playwright Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins, quietly took the stage Sunday night in very snug underpants and nothing else, with house lights up at the Royal George Theatre in the opening scene…
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July 27th, 2017 by Marti Gorman
When I travel, I inevitably find myself imagining what it would be like to live in the place I am visiting. I tend to walk in residential neighborhoods, rather than just frequenting museums and tourist destinations. "If I were…
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July 13th, 2017 by Jesse Mank
It’s in times of social unrest that art reveals its most essential power — the power to question and provoke in ways that words fail us. Art spaces become agents for public discourse, bringing people together…
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July 5th, 2017 by Cindy Mantai
My mother, who has been gone ten years this month, would have been happy that I’m back in Buffalo. We could have done more together – read more books, seen more films, attended more plays and music events. Our relationship…
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June 28th, 2017 by Trudy Cusella
I love to travel. Plane, train or automobile, any destination—ask, and I’ll meet up with you. When I make a list to plan a trip, reading materials fall right behind picture ID in order of importance. But, when a woman…
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June 23rd, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
Imagine your mouth aglow with a phosphorescent green light. You would literally be glowing in the dark. While that may sound like a rather fascinating hallucination, it was all too real for the young women who worked in the factory…
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June 8th, 2017 by Ann Marie Cusella
Monday was Red Carpet Night in Buffalo. Theater folk turned out in force--and in satin, sequins, feathers, and furs (well, we saw one fur) for the 27th annual Artie Awards at 710 Main Theatre, sponsored this year for the first…
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