The CFA Heats Up Buffalo's Summer
It's not just the weather that will keep Buffalo steamy this summer. The Center for the Arts will host an array of distinguished national performing acts while summer classes are in session.
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It's not just the weather that will keep Buffalo steamy this summer. The Center for the Arts will host an array of distinguished national performing acts while summer classes are in session.
It's time for a little show-and-tell, and Madonna's finally ready to talk.
Though not observable in the icy sky, UB's own brand of stars were visible last week.
Peter Cincotti is a few short steps from entering a career similar to artists like young pop-opera singer Josh Groban and his female counterpart, 17-year-old Charlotte Church. They have both appeared on the Public Broadcast Station so much, they ought to form their own club.
When Gregory Hines opened his sold-out concert at the Center for the Arts Saturday night with the jazz-rock of "I Just Want to Have Some Fun," he clearly meant it.
The man on the other end of the phone didn't know me. His voice was as smooth as crushed concrete, his personality as comforting as a cold sore. It was his job, though, to inform me of where I was to go, how I was to get there, and what I was to bring. Like a rookie CIA operative - or a nervous James Bond, first day on the job - I felt compelled to follow his instructions, fearful of the position I could put myself in if I failed to comply.
Often mistaken as background decoration to leading actors, the chorus of a musical is usually the last introduced in the opening song and the first to bow at curtain call. Chorus performers usually do not have the spotlight unless they are stars in the making. And even then, the odds are not always in their favor.
Theater design can make one production of a play drastically different from the next, rendering the work of a theater designer, who works with costumes, sets, props and lighting, extremely important.
Lovers Serse and Amastre from George Friedrich Handel's opera "Serse," are engaged in levels of dishonesty, betrayal and threats of suicide reminiscent of modern-day soap operas. It could have been Luke and Laura, Dylan and Brenda, Zack and Kelly, plus a few turbans and a little more deceit.
When students assembled in September to begin production on the Department of Theatre and Dance's "Birdbath," they knew their work would be memorable.
Buster Keaton's films were revolutionary in his time, merging farcical comedy with unprecedented special effects. Arguably, film comedies had their start with Keaton's 1917 directorial debut, "The Rough House." Keaton created movies that not only inspired comedians to be physical in their delivery, but filmmakers to be brave in their directing.
Theater department professor Sally Goers Fox does not do the kind of theater most people are familiar with.
A gust of wind blustered through the heating ducts at Slee Hall last week. Amy Greenan's thick office walls moaned, louder than the wild wind outside. It wasn't because of an impeding weather front or faulty air vents.
"Give a dog a woman's name and you'll begin to think of her as a woman."
Studio Arena Theatre's current production of Tom Dulack's comedy is full of the dull, dumb and droll banter that's supposed to represent the city of Buffalo.
At any time and in any neighborhood, the dynamics of diversity can strengthen or tarnish the power of the people who live in it. "Avenue X," with the help of four UB students, showcases how the human spirit endures against ignorance and racism.
As winter vacation looms closer and closer, students face either a trip back home or another snowy season here in Buffalo. While students returning to New York City for their break are familiar with the variety of Broadway's theater offerings, those left to stick it out in the local den of lake effect snow still have many options of their own.
It was 1928 when Joseph Moncure March's radical and explosive novel "The Wild Party" broke into contemporary literature. Dripping with sexual debauchery and domestic violence, the free-verse text was banned in cities like Boston despite being hailed by critics for its unique narrative.
The premiere of a new play is usually an exciting and momentous occasion. Endless months - often years - are spent writing, rehearsing, designing, and bringing to life the new text. If it's good, it might spawn future productions and even publication.
Alberta Hunter's tale is as old as time, her voice as legendary as they come. Her story of love and loss, trial and triumph, and an unwavering passion for jazz, is an inspirational chapter in music history.