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THE PROM Daemen University/MusicalFare Theatre
“Gotta Dance,” is the old show pitch.
Sep 5, 2024, 01:00
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SNOW IN MIDSUMMER Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre/Shaw Festival
There’s nothing like a curse to start off an entertaining story
Sep 3, 2024, 13:57
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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN HEART Festival Theatre/Shaw Festival
“Star Trek” and all its offspring are famous for the alternative universes, where principal characters are very different from those in the main episodes.
Aug 31, 2024, 21:18
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FOOTLIGHTS Spiegeltent/Shaw Festival
In musical performance, there is a special value attached to the performer who is front and center, the solo performer, the tap dancer, the baritone declaiming Wagner or Chorus beginning “Henry V.”
Aug 29, 2024, 23:58
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CANDIDA Royal George Theatre/Shaw Festival
There are three people in the room, one adult and two boys.
Aug 25, 2024, 13:35
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COTTON CLUB Spiegeltent/Shaw Festival
The venue is fascinating, a Harlem night club with all Black performers, all White customers and Mob ownership.
That was the Cotton Club.
Aug 19, 2024, 17:07
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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Saul Elkin Stage/Shakespeare in Delaware Park
It’s the little things.
That’s Shakespeare in Delaware Park’s production of “The Comedy of Errors,” a wonderful production of one of the Bard’s best comic plays, two sets of twins, a bizarre death penalty, family history and madcap confusion.
Jul 31, 2024, 12:28
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THE GOLDEN GIRLS: The Lost Episodes 5 Golden is the New Black 4110 Bailey Ave./O'Connell & Company[isod[ospdes
Four decades ago, “The Golden Girls” was one of the top shows on network TV, four aging women living in a home in Florida and trying to push back on Father Time, stretching dollars and pretending they are a lot younger and more (sexually) active.
Jul 17, 2024, 20:14
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HUNDRED DAYS Daemen College/MusicalFare Theatre
Think about this: You are sitting in a doctor’s office and she says you have one hundred days to live. What would you do?
Jul 17, 2024, 20:05
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KABARETT Spiegeltent/Shaw Festival
For most in the movie and theater audience, the image of Germany’s Weimar Republic is “Cabaret” and that’s fair, although only a flash of the culture of the Twenties in Berlin.
Jul 8, 2024, 12:25
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THE HOUSE THAT WILL NOT STAND Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre/Shaw Festival
There are two great constants in American history, our “original sin” of slavery, either before or after the Civil War, and sex, which manages to be on every love or hate list.
Jul 5, 2024, 19:27
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THE ORPHAN OF CHAO Royal George Theatre/Shaw Festival
Before Rome was just one of many feuding city states in the Italian Peninsula, there were warring states in what is now
China, each fighting to take over all the others to form a mighty empire.
Jul 3, 2024, 20:29
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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Festival Theatre/Shaw Festival
What makes for a good business season for theater companies like the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival are tent pole shows which drag in large crowds.
Jul 2, 2024, 19:29
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THE SECRET GARDEN Royal George Theatre/Shaw Festival
When the audience rose to cheer for the Shaw Festival’s production of “The Secret Garden,” the show’s biggest fans couldn’t be seen.
Jun 29, 2024, 17:26
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