‘Light and Shadows’ a performer’s life in sounds and visions
Attending a play on the third floor at the Great Arrow Building — cavernous, sprawling, intimidating — can be arduous, particularly on these frigid February nights. Getting there is not half the fun, as the saying goes. The trek, though, is almost always rewarded. (Updated: 02/09/10 8:06 AM )
Wild’s ‘Sweet Tooth’ has promise, but the script needs major work
Neal Radice’s Alleyway Theatre, forum for new plays — world premieres, Western New York bows — has opened yet another fledgling work, “Sweet Tooth,” a sometimes insightful, often absurd, periodically sophomoric comedy by Mark Wild. The play has been produced by the ambitious Theatre Plus, an adjunct acting company under Radice’s aegis, a troupe dedicated to “respond to the needs and interests of women.” (Updated: 02/07/10 6:44 AM )
Red Thread’s debut puts spotlight on women, enriches theater scene
In the theater, as in literature and film, few things hold more fascination for audiences than a no-holds-barred battle between psychologically damaged women. (Updated: 02/07/10 6:44 AM )
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Comically defining battle of the sexes
Though it claims not to take sides, the very title of “Defending the Caveman,” a solo play showing in Shea’s Smith Theatre, has an absolute viewpoint. That’s OK. It’s really funny. (Updated: 02/06/10 11:42 AM )
Fill up on comedy with ‘Light Lunch’
Welcome home, Pete. (Updated: 02/03/10 4:10 PM )
Inconsistency plagues ambitious ‘Jekyll and Hyde ’
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” things get quickly out of control when the lead character starts experimenting on himself. The same thing happens in Kaleidoscope Theatre Productions’ current attempt at “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Jeffrey Hatcher, adapted from the novel. (Updated: 02/05/10 8:53 AM )
Talented cast helps audience imagine enchanted Narnia
Few things are more powerful than a child’s imagination. (Updated: 02/05/10 8:54 AM )
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For O’Connell and Company, ‘Wiz’ is too big a production to succeed
Producing large-scale musical theater in Western New York has never been a simple affair. (Updated: 02/05/10 8:54 AM )
How Cage might alter your mind
To a certain generation of Buffalo art and music scenesters, the late composer John Cage was nothing less than the savior of 20th century American music. (Updated: 01/30/10 6:32 AM )
‘In the Heights’ a musical love letter to a neighborhood
For all the hype that surrounds it, there’s nothing particularly new about “In the Heights,” the 2008 Broadway musical that opened Tuesday night in Shea’s Performing Arts Center. (Updated: 01/27/10 12:03 PM )
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WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR ROLE ON STAGE
Last spring, when it came time for local actress and director Kelli Bocock- Natale to scope out possible roles to audition for, she ran down the list of shows in the 2009-10 theater season. (Updated: 01/24/10 5:54 AM )
Dance interpretation
As storytellers go, musical theater artists are some of the luckiest. (Updated: 01/23/10 6:56 AM )