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Casting has been announced and tickets are now on sale for Starring Buffalo's EVITA, April 3-4 at Shea's 710 Theater. The soaring epic musical by seven-time Tony Award winner Andrew Lloyd Webber (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats) and three-time Academy Award winner Tim Rice (The Lion King, Jesus Christ Superstar) charts Eva Peron's rise to become the most powerful woman in Latin America, and features some of musical theater's finest songs, including the smash hit 'Don't Cry for Me, Argentina'.

There's just one final week to submit votes for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

We're heading into the final week of voting for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Vote today to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

Leave the iPads at home. Playtime at The Palace, the hit series of live performances geared toward children and families, returns to The Palace Theatre in Stamford on Sunday, January 26. The fun-filled season of magicians, musicians, clowns, puppets and more features seven shows to entertain and delight even the youngest theatergoers.

There's just two weeks left to vote for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The people have spoken nominations are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

There's just a few weeks left to make your voice heard and submit your votes for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The people have spoken nominations are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatre's achievements and performers are recognized!

It's December! Voting is now underway for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! Now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized. Check out the first set of stats below.

Voting is NOW OPEN and the first votes are in for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards, brought to you by TodayTix! The nominees are set, and now you can vote to make sure your favorite local theatres and performers are recognized!

On Monday, November 18, The Palace Theatre in Stamford will kick of its new Scripts on Tap series in partnership with Half Full Brewery. The four-part series includes readings of new works in development for both theatre and screen.

On Tuesday, September 24, The Palace Theatre in Stamford held it's first annual Chairman's Dinner. 100 supporters gathered on the stage of The Palace for an evening featuring special performances from the organization's Arts in Education students and singer Allen Rene Louis. The event raised $25,000 to support The Palace and its arts education programs.

This summer, dozens of children from across Fairfield County experienced the joy of the big top in a whole new way – as performers. The Palace Theatre's Circus Camp, in a partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich and the Stamford Family Y, brought the circus arts to area youth for the fourth consecutive year. The organization provided scholarships to 60 children in third, fourth and fifth grade through grants from the First County Bank Foundation, sponsor of the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich program, and the Legg Mason Charitable Foundation, sponsor of the Stamford Family Y program.

On Thursday, June 20, The Palace Theatre in Stamford welcomed five-time Grammy Award-winner Dionne Warwick for the nonprofit's 10thAnnual Gala. The event is The Palace's largest annual fundraiser, which this year raised $120,000 to support the organization and its arts education programs.

On Thursday, June 20, five-time Grammy Award-winning Dionne Warwick will grace the stage of The Palace Theatre in Stamford for the nonprofit's 10th Annual Gala. The event is The Palace's largest annual fundraiser with proceeds benefiting the organization and its arts education programs.

Second Generation Theatre (SGT) closes a four-star season with the regional premiere of the musical NINE by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston.

On May 20, three high school students from Fairfield and Westchester County will experience the joy of live theatre in a whole new way - as playwrights. Emilia Getzinger (of Botsford, CT), Grace O'Rourke (of Mamaroneck, NY) and Alexandra Levins (of Westport, CT) were named winners of The Palace Theatre's 2019 Ernie DiMattia Emerging Young Artist Awards for their writing of an original one-act play. All three will witness their voices and visions come to life with a staged reading by professional actors at The Palace in Stamford.

Playwright Tony Kushner's magnum opus may very well be what he subtitled 'A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.' Better known as ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES, this pivotal piece of theatre was written during the height of the AIDS crisis in America when maudlin stories of dying young men were plastered everywhere. But why refer to this piece as a 'fantasia' and what did it really mean. In lesser hands, the fantasia connotations could lead to ideas of raunchy drag show , but Kushner has fashioned a gripping account of one man's gut wrenching struggles with AIDS and how those around him cope with the illness. While sometimes blurring the borders of reality and fantasy, Kushner's fascinating play is underscored by the politics of the Reagan era mixed with religious ideologies.

Second Generation Theatre continues their inaugural season in residence at the Shea's Smith Theatre with Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches. After the resounding success of the season opener, Big Fish, SGT switches gears to present one of the greatest theatrical journeys of our time. Heralded by the New York Times as "the most thrilling American play in years,", Tony Kushner's epic tale set in 1980's New York City manages to walk a line between heartbreaking and hopeful, irreverent and idealistic. Opening on March 8th, the production runs Thursday-Sunday until March 24th.

Second Generation Theatre continues their inaugural season in residence at the Shea's Smith Theatre with Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches. After the resounding success of the season opener, Big Fish, SGT switches gears to present one of the greatest theatrical journeys of our time. Heralded by the New York Times as "the most thrilling American play in years,", Tony Kushner's epic tale set in 1980's New York City manages to walk a line between heartbreaking and hopeful, irreverent and idealistic. Opening on March 8th, the production runs Thursday-Sunday until March 24th.

Everything old is new again. But who would think the new century would have 19th Century literature resurfacing in the form of theatrical plays. This season Buffalo has seen Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' characters in the new play MISS BENNETT: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY at Shea's 710 Theatre. But a good story is a good story. So in re-examining the age old hunt for an eligible bachelor we now bring to the stage Austen's SENSE & SENSIBILITY, that notable work that explores the issues of class, courting, and attaining the perfect husband. With some updating of the era and costumes, this timeless tale could allow Austen's often melodramatic story to play out as a 2019 romantic comedy feature film.

Youth, ingenuity, and courage can be held responsible for Buffalo's latest artistic endeavor, STARRING BUFFALO. This new production company has creatively brought the concert musical to the Queen City and in it's inaugural production of Alan Menken and Steven Schwartz's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, they got off to a flying start.