White Rose - West End Articles Page 17

TALE, New York City’s long-running storytelling show, returns September 26 at the Red Room above KGB Bar. Hosted by Harmon Leon, the evening will feature Sarah Rose Siskind, Jess Wood, Ezra Holmlund, and Emily Epstein White, with live music by Jawnee Conroy.

The GRAMMY-nominated group Sandbox Percussion, the first percussion ensemble to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant, has revealed its 15th season, highlighting the group's collaborations with some of today's most important composers and artists.

A renaissance of Buffalo born theatre productions at the former Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo continues to burnish brightly. As I sat in the crowded, newly renovated Shea's 710 Theatre, thinking how the facility had been mothballed a decade ago, Buffalo's hometown pride burst through. On afternoon when the Buffalo Bills were playing, a mix of cultures gathered for a spectacular production of DREAMGIRLS. In a joint production between Shea's 710 and the newly formed AnsariSaxon Productions, the energy was palpable both on and off stage.

Most theatregoers only know George Bernard Shaw’s popular play, PYGMALION, through the Broadway musical classic, MY FAIR LADY. But Kechi Playhouse owner/producer/director Misty Maynard takes Shaw’s 1913 classic and smartly transforms it into a 1940s radio drama set in war-ravaged London during World War II.