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BWW Review: TRIBES IS A COMPELLING DRAMA at Road Less Traveled Productions
by Michael Rabice - March 11, 2022

In typical form, Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo presents a play to challenge and stimulate the senses in it's gripping production of TRIBES by Nina Raines. Never a company to shy away from forthright complex topics, TRIBES has been in the works for over 2 years, derailed by the Covid pand...

BWW Review: A Sumptuous MY FAIR LADY at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - March 02, 2022

How to turn a classic play into a classic musical? Find the best of the best, of course. But even the powerhouse duo of Rodger's and Hammerstein couldn't figure out to to turn George Bernard Shaw's comic masterpiece PYGMALION into a musical. They attempted but ultimately passed. Happily another tale...

BWW Review: OKLAHOMA! at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - February 16, 2022

In March of 1943, the audience that poured into New York’s St. James Theatre had no idea they were witnessing the the birth of the musical comedy as we know it today. The maiden production of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! would change the face of Broadway fore...

BWW Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - January 27, 2022

After a near two year absence, live audiences have returned to Irish Classical Theatre. And the production that inaugurated the company is back again, nestled into it's home stage, which may never have been dreamt of 30 years ago. Irishman Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT is on the boards and audi...

BWW Review: HAMILTON at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - December 16, 2021

HAMILTON and it's brilliant company have taken up residence at Shea's Buffalo Theatre  through January 2nd and the phenomenon deserves to be seen by one and all. The ingenuity that pervades the entire production combines a modern day sensibility and color blind casting that always seems befitting wi...

BWW Review: PRETTY WOMAN-THE MUSICAL at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - December 01, 2021

Welcome to the 1980's where acid wash jeans, big hair, shoulder pads and the music of Bryan Adams pervades the air. Julia Roberts and Richard Gere were starring in the rom-com blockbuster 'Pretty Woman'  and audiences were enthralled. Flash forward 30 or so years and everything old is new again as  ...

BWW Review: THE BAND'S VISIT at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - November 03, 2021

A visiting Egyptian band loses their way and a small town is forever changed. It seems that THE BAND'S VISIT is the TONY Award winning musical that no one has heard of. But that changed last night when the luminous National tour opened at Shea's Buffalo Theatre. It was evident that most audience mem...

BWW Review: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at SHEA'S 710 Theatre
by Michael Rabice - October 29, 2021

After 20 months of sitting on a darkened stage at Shea's 710 Theatre, All For One Theatre Productions dusted off the set that has sat idle for the brilliant production of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. The production closed on opening night in March 2020, never being able to be s...

BWW Review: TOOTSIE at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - October 14, 2021

TOOTSIE has taken the town as the first National tour of the Broadway musical opened in Buffalo this week. A full house of Covid vaccinated theatre goers packed into Shea's Buffalo theatre. Based on the 1982 movie, this non-Equity  tour has been rehearsing in Buffalo prior to launching it's visits a...

BWW Review: ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT at Alleyway's Main Theater
by Mark C. Lloyd - September 25, 2021

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BWW Review: “LET'S GET TO KNOW” LARA D. HERBERGER
by Mark C. Lloyd - September 18, 2021

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BWW Review: FROZEN at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - September 15, 2021

Excitement filled  the air as the Shea's Broadway season kicked off with  Disney's FROZEN.  Adults and children clad in costumes and clutching their Olaf dolls patiently entered the theatre, all wearing  their obligatory face masks. Covid was not going to dampen anyone’s spirits. The warm Buffalo ev...

BWW Review: THE MUSIC OF DISNEY ON BROADWAY at Shea's Buffalo
by Michael Rabice - July 30, 2021

'A Whole New World' is not only the theme from Disney's ALADDIN but may also be the theme of life as we know it in 2021. Happily audiences returned to Shea's Theatre last night for the first time in 504 days, after the Broadway tour of HELLO DOLLY closed abruptly due to a pandemic that changed the w...

BWW Review: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - April 16, 2021

Unfurling the raw emotions associated with sickness, death and grief are not new  topics in literature. But author Joan Didion has suffered immense loss and tragedy in losing her husband and daughter, and uses this as the narrative of her book turned one woman play  THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. In ...