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TICK TICK BOOM REVIEW!

TICK TICK BOOM REVIEW!

MAY 21, 2023 / CHERIEMESSORE We’ve all been there. We’re facing a landmark birthday and our BFF is on a new path and our significant other has expectations and we’re staring down a crossroads riddled with self-doubt, anticipation, enthusiasm, and fear. What...

Behind the Scenes of EVERY BRILLIANT THING

https://youtu.be/5Lcbq9sN8Nc Buffalo Rising takes you behind the scenes of EVERY BRILLIANT THING starring Kevin Craig. Director Charmagne Chi sits down with Kevin and they talk about... well, brilliant things! EVERY BRILLIANT THING runs March 3-19 @ the Shea's Smith...

mamma mia!

MAMMA MIA! Music and Lyrics by BENNY ANDERSSON & BJÖRN ULVAEUS And some songs with STIG ANDERSON Book by CATHERINE JOHNSON  Originally Conceived by JUDY CRAYMER    MAMMA MIA! is the perfect show to beat the Buffalo winter blues! With fast-paced dance numbers...

hedwig and the angry inch

hedwig and the angry inch

hedwig and the angry inch Music & Lyrics by Stephen Trask Book by John Cameron Mitchell This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash tells the story of “internationally ignored” rock goddess, Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing East German punk rock...

Pure Glitter

PURE GLITTER By Douglas Lyons Join 2nd Gen for this thrilling regional premiere! Stan throws a surprise party for his husband and everyone is there- even some uninvited guests. As exes collide and cocktails fly, this celebratory evening asks one tight group of gays to...

God of Carnage

GOD OF CARNAGE By Yasmina Reza A comedy of manners with no manners! Two couples meet to discuss a fight between their children. As drinks are poured and gloves come off, what began as a polite discussion devolves into off-the-walls chaos.Performance Dates feb 27- mar...

Urinetown

URINETOWN Music by Mark Hollman Lyrics by Mark Hollman & Greg Kotis Book by Greg Kotis Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural...

THE NICETIES

THE NICETIES

By Eleanor Burgess In THE NICETIES by Eleanor Burgess, an accomplished Ivy League professor holds routine office hours with an ambitious young student to discuss her thesis: if history is written by the victors, who tells the story of the oppressed? Before long...

THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Music & Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, Additional Material by Jay Weiss Winner for the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical, this musical comedy follows six pre-teens as they compete to be Putnam...

Merrily we roll along

Merrily we roll along

merrily we roll along Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Stephen Sondheim’s beloved cult classic, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG is seeing its regional premiere at the Shea’s Smith! A fable about friendship told in reverse, MERRILY contains some of...

The Bowling Play

The Bowling Play

the bowling play A world premiere comedy by Kelly Copps SGT’s second show of the season is a world premiere comedy developed in our free reading series! Pete is attractive, single, and on a blind date… in a bowling alley. Will his misfit bowling team come between him...