Convenience for customers has become the most powerful currency in modern business. Retailers who fail to prioritize ease of access are losing sales to competitors who do. The numbers tell a story: 75% of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises, and 62% of mobile payment
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
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.”
Donna Hoke’s new play, Sons & Lovers , is a clever little invention about a middle-aged woman named Ellen who is at a crossroads in her life. Hoke has positioned her female protagonist between two tales of desire, neither of which is her own. On the one hand, there is her son’s desire for another ma
Do you have a passion for helping others? Maybe you go out of your way to help those around you who are in need? If you do, then you should seriously consider getting a master’s in counseling degree.
Buffalo Opera Unlimited production comes to Buffalo State
