Singing, dancing, confetti and excited guests filled Shea’s Buffalo Theater for days as the Broadway musical “Funny Girl” touched down in Buffalo from Feb. 13-18.
UB’s recent musical choices have varied greatly in recent years, but Sondheim has been absent from its line-up for over a decade — until now.
Winter in Buffalo can get dreary, but there's no better way to get over lousy weather than to indulge in local art with these events happening around town.
To the artists featured in the “Food for Thought” exhibit, it’s not the food itself that is meaningful, rather it’s the events, places and the people that the food is connected to.
‘Miller’s Girl’ ruins any potential for success when it implies that female high school seniors are alluring, seductive sirens that capture the hearts of unsuspecting, innocent men.
If your situationships have ever left you at a loss for words, this album is for you.
Most people don’t even know it’s there. The KCT serves as a creative outpost, an incubator for new ideas squirreled away within the winding hallways of Ellicott. The theater, like its namesake, is a hidden gem.
With covers of well-loved pop songs, the Royal Pitches — UB’s only treble a cappella group — never fails to cause goosebumps with its members’ fierce voices in “Visions of Sugarplums,” hosted in the SU Theater last Saturday.
Repetition of the words “clitoris” and “vagina” are — surprisingly — not the most eyebrow-raising aspects of the 2023 feminist documentary, “The Disappearance of Shere Hite.” Instead, it’s that the 30th-best-selling book of all time, “The Hite Report,” seems to have been forgotten.
All the 2024 Grammy nominees are talented, but some of them deserve the trophy more than the others. Here’s who I’ll be rooting for this year and who I think will win...
Despite its shortfalls, “Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” remained true to its source material and served as a warning of how easily humanity can cross the line between heroism and villainy.
If we take a look at the record of artists that have visited within the last 40 years, dare I say, there is hope for the future of our campus entertainment.
Marvel's latest film is propped by the leads' chemistry and bogged down by an uninteresting villain.
This past weekend, the Emerging Choreographers Showcase lit up the Katharine Cornell Theater (KCT) with dances that were beautiful, technical and, best of all, not afraid to be unserious.
UB hosted its annual “Art in the Open” event last week. The exhibit allowed visitors an immersive glimpse into UB artists’ creative processes without the formality of a typical museum.
Showcased from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 in the Center for the Arts (CFA) Project Space, “Clashing Fragments” reinvented how audiences and artists approach interpretation.
The fifth Beatle, AI, helped them release their latest song. UB students grapple with the implications of A.I.-aided, posthumous releases. Will students “Let It Be” or will they “Come Together” against this new music trend?
Locally produced film “The Niagara Movement” tackles unexplored truths about The Civil Rights Movement that aren’t in your history books.
Everybody needs a little jazz in their life. If you’re not convinced, listening to Laufey’s second album, “Bewitched,” may change your mind.
The instruments hanging in Judith Cohen’s living room are far from typical. Rather than a violin or piano, a dulcimer hangs on the wall, and a vièle sits on a pedestal. The two are prominent in Cohen’s work as an ethnomusicologist, specializing in Sephardic music and Medieval-related traditions.
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