Jamie Moses

Concertmaster Dennis Kim offers the BPO premiere of the violin concerto by Philip Glass

Sabres ramp up the culinary delights at KeyBank Center

While it’s clear there are thousands of nurses around the world that wished they never bothered getting into the industry, there are more people who love working in health care. Many of the negatives that come with the job often put people off from pursuing a career in nursing, but there are many po

On Your Feet! The Musical has started its national tour here in Buffalo, previous to its Miami opening. Emilio and Gloria Estefan themselves were on hand to launch this joyous celebration of their career and their love for each other. It is a slightly altered production from Broadway, but in some ve

The first show out of the gate this season was MusicalFare’s charming production of Peter and the Starcatcher , directed by Chris Kelly. This “prequel” to Peter Pan reveals how the boy who never grew up came to be Peter Pan. This is a fast-paced and good-natured production, full of invention and fli

No play from the Curtain Up! roster has inspired more inquiries for my opinion than Neal Radices’s musical, Killer Rack , adapted from the motion picture of the same name. In this camp parody of the horror genre, Betty Downer, a woman whose flat chest contributes to her low self-esteem, seeks breast

My Old Lady is a minor play by a major playwright that has, over the years, enticed some remarkable actors with its delicious characters and delightful reversals. Israel Horovitz wrote the play. Peter Friedman, Siân Phillips, and Jan Maxwell were the original New York cast. Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith

Oboist Megan Kyle offers her first UB faculty recital

There is something ancient and forbidding about Annie Baker’s play, John , now at Road Less Traveled Theater. Even the title, which refers to the man who never appears in the play, but who makes frequent intrusions into the action, is somehow haunting, even threatening. The arrival of a blind charac

OPENING

Everything about the production of Mel Brooks’ The Producers currently onstage at the Kavinoky Theatre suggests a determination to start the season with a roar. Even before auditions were scheduled, excitement rippled through the theater community when it was determined that Buffalo musical theater

In the opening scene of Noël Coward’s comic masterpiece, Private Lives , when Amanda’s new husband assures her that she is entirely “normal,” she objects, “I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”