Art & Theater Stories and Reviews
- Last third of brilliant ‘Triangles’ steals show
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By Colin Dabkowski
NEWS STAFF REVIEWER
Updated: 11/16/08 5:28 AM
- With all due respect to the late Swedish playwright August Strindberg and props to Buffalo’s foremost dramatist Emanuel Fried, the one-act plays of both esteemed writers in Road Less Traveled Productions’ “Triangles” serve as mere tasty appetizers.
- BPO memories are now music to Max’s ears
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By Mary Kunz Goldman
NEWS CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC
Updated: 11/15/08 7:48 AM
- During the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s bleakest days, when money was short and skies were gray, Music Director Maximiano Valdes offered a welcome dose of glamor.
- Subversive stages a hard-hitting ‘Hammer’
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By Ted Hadley
NEWS CONTRIBUTING REVIEWER
Updated: 11/15/08 6:58 AM
- “I am 95 years old now and I say what is so, whether some people like it or not.”
- ‘Simply Simone’ is a revue of a fascinating life
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By Colin Dabkowski
NEWS STAFF REVIEWER
Updated: 11/12/08 10:56 AM
- If you absolutely have to do a musical revue, it helps when the music you choose tells a story.
- Top cast makes Stoppard play even more memorable
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By Ted Hadley
NEWS CONTRIBUTING REVIEWER
Updated: 11/11/08 7:43 AM
- Tom Stoppard, playwright, novelist, journalist, human rights activist, screenwriter and sometime actor, is an extremely quotable guy. Name a subject, and he’ll give you something to ponder and keep for a rainy day.
- When the sisters can’t sing
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By Ted Hadley
NEWS CONTRIBUTING REVIEWER
Updated: 11/11/08 6:38 AM
- Goodbye Patti, Laverne and Maxine. Hello to Patrick, Lawrence and Max.
- Theater / Capsule reviews
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Updated: 11/09/08 7:30 AM
- Theater capsule reviews, by The News critics, are based on a four-star rating system, and are as follows: ★★★★ Excellent / ★★★ Good / ★★ Fair / ★Poor
- 'Tromping on Sacred Ground': A new perspective on an old debate
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By Colin Dabkowski
NEWS STAFF REVIEWER
Updated: 11/08/08 9:08 AM
- As literary nonfiction, the time surrounding the publication of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” surely makes for one of the most engrossing debates between religion and science in history.
- Buffalo Laboratory Theatre shows it's not afraid to experiment
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BY COLIN DABKOWSKI
News Arts Writer
Updated: 11/07/08 10:46 AM
- Hilbert College professor Taylor Doherty named his son after the great modernist playwright Samuel Beckett.
- Variety of tunes, execution save the day in ‘Jamestown’
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BY COLIN DABKOWSKI
News Staff Reviewer
Updated: 11/07/08 10:37 AM
- First, the bad news.
- Buffalo's Paul Robeson Theater hits the big 4-0
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By Colin Dabkowski
News Arts Writer
Updated: 11/07/08 10:26 AM
- Aat dusk last Friday, when the rest of the city was gearing up for a night of trick-or-treating and costume parties, the cast of Paul Robeson Theatre’s musical “Simply Simone: The Music of Nina Simone” was hard at work inside the modest concrete walls of the African-American Cultural Center on Masten Avenue.
- Lack of action at art auction blamed on financial crisis
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 11/06/08 6:31 AM
- NEW YORK — On Day 2 of the fall auction season, a Russian masterpiece expected to sell for up to $3 million at auction did not find a buyer Wednesday, further underscoring the impact of the global financial crisis on the art market.
- Staggering economy puts Broadway in a bind
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By Jeremy Gerard
BLOOMBERG NEWS
Updated: 11/06/08 7:14 AM
- NEW YORK –At the new, high-tech TKTS booth in Manhattan’s Father Duffy Square, flashing red LEDs are hawking half-price orchestra seats for “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and 22 other Broadway shows these days.
- Pilobolus’ artistry enchants crowd
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By Garaud MacTaggart
News Contributing Reviewer
Updated: 11/02/08 6:42 PM
- Since its first recital back in 1971, Pilobolus has been one of the groups in the forefront of modern dance, utilizing the bodies of its dancers to create visually unique constructs that enchant its audiences.
- Theater / Capsule reviews
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Updated: 11/02/08 6:34 AM
- Theater capsule reviews, by The News critics, are based on a four-star rating system, and are as follows: ★★★★ Excellent / ★★★ Good / ★★ Fair / ★Poor
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