Review: LEGALLY BLONDE:THE MUSICAL at Shea’s 710 Theatre
by Michael Rabice - May 03, 2025
LEGALLY BLONDE:THE MUSICAL has everyone shouting “Omigod You Guys” in true Valley-girl fashion as it takes to the Shea’s 710 Theatre stage. Presented in it’s new home, Musicalfare seems like to have found the perfect sized theatre for all of it’s future productions....
Review: BURN THIS at Road Less Traveled Theater
by Michael Rabice - April 28, 2025
Grief, love and personal life challenges are all examined with fascinating detail in the engrossing production of Lanford Wilson's play BURN THIS now on stage at Road Less Traveled Theatre....
Review: THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD at ALLEYWAY THEATRE
by Michael Rabice - April 17, 2025
That brilliant murder mystery author Agatha Christie is universally praised and beloved, but one of her first successes is not well known to American readers. Happily the the stage adaptation by Heidi Armbruster of that early work, THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD, now playing at Buffalo's Alleyway The...
Review: NEIL DIAMOND: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE at Shea's Buffalo Theatre
by Michael Rabice - April 09, 2025
The trend continues of bringing a musical superstar's life to the Broadway stage in a jukebox bio-musical style. We've had Cher, Tina Turner, Gloria Estefan, Michael Jackson, and now Neil Diamond in THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE. The flashy and often heartfelt Broadway tour settled ont...
Review: DORIAN at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - April 04, 2025
The personal life and writings of Oscar Wilde have been so inextricably linked that the new play DORIAN has woven Wilde's journey into that of one of his best known characters, Dorian Gray. In an everything old is new again fashion, Wilde's' 1891 play THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY has been freely ada...
Review: CHESS at LANCASTER OPERA HOUSE
by Michael Rabice - March 31, 2025
Every now and then there is a musical that is near universally loved for it score, treasured by cast recording collectors, and infamous to many, BUT is rarely ever produced. Most were failures soon after theirs debuts. My personal desert island treasured flop from that category is Jerry Herman's D...
Review: DIAL M FOR MURDER at Shea's 710 Theatre
by Michael Rabice - March 28, 2025
Murder, greed, blackmail, love affairs and a potential hanging are just some of the many dark subjects that form the fabric of the fabulous production of DIAL M FOR MURDER now playing at Shea's 710 Theatre. Who doesn't love a good old fashioned murder mystery? Alfred Hitchcock turned this nail biter...
Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at MusicalFare
by Michael Rabice - March 07, 2025
Broadway's great leading lady Elaine Stritch once corrected herself when talking about musicals, when she was describing a Broadway show as a 'musical comedy.' 'Every musical was called a musical comedy in my day,' she quipped. Well, times have changed, and the Pultizer Prize winning musical NEXT ...
Review: THE WIZ at Shea's Buffalo Theatre
by Michael Rabice - March 05, 2025
Everything OZ continues these days. L Frank Baum would be flabbergasted to think that his 1900 novel 'THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ' would be as popular, if not MORE popular, in 2025. The endless fascination with the story of young Dorothy being whisked away by a twister from her home in Kansas to th...
Review: THE LOVED ONES at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - February 24, 2025
When worlds collide, drama ensues. And in the new play THE LOVED ONES by Erica Murray, 4 women meet under the most unusual of circumstances. Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre is presenting the North American Premiere of this 2023 play. And as can be expected, the dark subjects of death, remorse, unw...