Speakupwny.com
Reviews
THE WOLVES Leary Theatre/Niagara University
A couple of decades ago, my mother attended her 60th college reunion and was given the sports letter never awarded for her time on the college swim team.
Oct 14, 2018, 01:09
Reviews
THE STRUDEL LADY Maxine and Robert Seller Theatre/Jewish Repertory Theatre
The strudel in the lobby of the Amherst JCC was so good during the intermission it sold out immediately.
“The Strudel Lady” inside?
Not so much.
Oct 12, 2018, 17:25
Reviews
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS O'Connell & Company/Park School
Sometimes, the plants fight back.
Oct 8, 2018, 22:39
Politics
It is time for West Seneca to restore its representation!
On Tuesday, November 6, 2018, the voters of West Seneca will have the opportunity to vote to increase their Town Board from 2 Councilmen and 1 Supervisor to 4 Councilmen and 1 Supervisor by voting YES to the proposition: "Shall the number of councilmen be increased from two to four in the Town of West Seneca?"
Oct 5, 2018, 10:38
Reviews
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES MusicalFare Theatre/Daemen College
“Pump Boys and Dinettes” is a far more rural musical than most, a triumph of humor,
Oct 1, 2018, 11:53
Reviews
PHILOSOPHUS Alleyway Theatre
It…just…isn’t…very…good.
I can’t decide whether it’s Colin Speer Crowley’s “Philosophus” or Neal Radice’s direction, which plays the story mostly for laughs, especially Chris J. Handley’s Voltaire.
Sep 27, 2018, 12:49
Reviews
FARENHEIT 451 Manny Fried Playhouse/Subversive Theatre
Imagine a society where people get all their information from giant wall screens and the police are just a voice call away and books are so actively discouraged they are burned.
When a character tries reading aloud from a book, he barely knows how.
Sep 27, 2018, 12:45
Reviews
SWEENEY TODD Kavinoky Theatre
“Sweeney Todd” is a musical for those who always wonder why their fast food is so cheap.
Sep 23, 2018, 10:47
Reviews
GOLDEN BOY Andrews Theatre/Irish Classical Theatre Company
For generations, boxing was the way out of poverty for immigrants and African-Americans, at least it was the perceived way out for many.
Sep 16, 2018, 12:31
Reviews
THE ORCHARD (AFTER CHEKHOV) Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre/Shaw Festival
There’s this fascination in the theater with Chekhov, “The Cherry Orchard,” “The Seagull,” all that.
Aug 25, 2018, 11:01
Reviews
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Festival Theatre/Shaw Festival
Too long.
Too melodramatic.
Strong set, although the computer stuff wasn’t working right.
Fine Sherlock Holmes in Damien Atkins.
Just off a vast grassy field outside the Festival Theatre, life returns to the Great Grimpen Mire, Dartmoor and the giant, howling hound in “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
Aug 22, 2018, 12:26
Reviews
O'FLAHERTY V.C. Royal George Theatre/Shaw Festival
Why do men enlist and why do men fight?
That’s what George Bernard Shaw was questioning in “O’Flaherty V.C.”
Aug 21, 2018, 12:43
Press Releases
45thAnnual Young Waterfowlers Program Scheduled At Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge
Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, in partnership with the Lake Plains Waterfowl Association, will host its 45th Annual Young Waterfowlers Program. The program will include an orientation class at the refuge headquarters on Saturday, September 29, 2018 and a youth only hunt day on Saturday, October 13, 2018. The Young Waterfowlers Program will be open to junior hunters between 12-15 years of age. There is no charge but space is limited with preference given to first time participants. Pre-registration does not guarantee participation. Those selected will be notified by mail.
Aug 21, 2018, 11:25
Reviews
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR Royal George Theatre/Shaw Festival
Just over a century ago, the Canadian Army built the Royal George Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake as part of a vast training base, preparing troops to go the bloodbath of the Western Front.
The war started badly and descended into military mass murder.
Aug 10, 2018, 12:35
Reviews
HENRY V Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre/Shaw Festival
Maybe because the Stratford Festival is such a Shakespeare production factory, it took the Shaw Festival to turn its first Shakespeare production into a home run, or for the Canadian context, a hat trick.
Aug 8, 2018, 21:23
|
