Review: DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - September 20, 2024
Not only are the Halloween decorations out at Target and Walgreens, but theatre season for Irish Classical Theatre is beginning with a macabre story in a comedian's clothes as they present the very silly DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERROR....
Review: DISNEY'S NEWSIES THE MUSICAL at Shea's 710 Theatre
by Michael Rabice - September 13, 2024
The Buffalo theatre season is back in full swing and it's off to a great start, if the fine production of DISNEY'S NEWSIES THE MUSICAL is an indication. Playing at Shea's 710 Theatre alongside co presenter The D'Youville Kavinoky Theatre, the creative talent assembled showcases the best of Western N...
Review: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN HEART at Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - August 26, 2024
He's done it again! The famous sleuth and his sidekick are back at it, solving cases with cunning precision and insight. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HUMAN HEART is playing in a fabulous production at the SHAW FESTIVAL in Niagara on the Lake. Audiences are intrigued, captivated and thoroug...
Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - August 06, 2024
Who doesn't love a good belly laugh, a groan and a perpetual smile on their face for 2-1/2 hours. That's exactly what you'll be in store for when attending the joyously silly production of ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS at the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake....
Review: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION at Shaw Festival
by Michael Rabice - June 17, 2024
Time travel back to the age of film noir when black and white movie dramas were played to the hilt with overarching mannerisms, full of prototypical characters and not too subtle close ups full of tension inducing musical scores. The Shaw Festival is producing one from that ilk with the classic Agat...
Review: MJ at Shea's Buffalo Theatre
by Michael Rabice - June 12, 2024
The king of pop surely had a storied musical career that went from child star to tabloid fodder in his all too short life. The life of Michael Jackson, now the Broadway musical MJ, is igniting the stage of Shea's Buffalo Theatre through June 16th. Fear not , the moon walk, the infamous sparkly glove...
Review: PRIVATE LIVES at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - June 09, 2024
Noel Coward may well have been the arbiter of all things regarding propriety , social class, and manners. So it may have come as a shock to some that his witty play PRIVATE LIVES, now playing at Irish Classical Theatre, makes it clear that his upper crust characters certainly do NOT always behave w...
Review: THE PRICE at Irish Classical Theatre
by Michael Rabice - April 21, 2024
Something wonderful has taken to the stage at Buffalo ‘s Irish Classical Theatre, as Arthur Miller’s THE PRICE is being presented in a near perfect production. This seldom produced play may sound somewhat stilted in it’s formality of language, but the story continues to be captivating, all these yea...
Review: MAMMA MIA! at Shea's Buffalo Theatre
by Michael Rabice - April 10, 2024
Guilty as charged. I openly admit I really enjoy the ABBA musical, MAMMA MIA! There is a time and place for all kinds of entertainment, and the birth of the jukebox musical can almost certainly be attributed to kind of show MAMMA MIA has become. Now 25 years after it's opening, the national tour tha...