Curtain Up!

Before Curtain Up! on September 20, Jeanne Hebbbon Cairns will be inducted to "The Plaza of the Stars" on September 16 at 5:00 p.m. (free, open to the…

Curtain Up! this Friday night, September 15, marks the opening of the 2017-2018 theater season, with a formal dinner, some informal dining at Expo, shows…

Although many local theater venues hosted opening performances Thursday evening, Buffalo's formal celebration of a new theater season takes place Friday…

There is another star on the Theater District's Plaza of Stars. Stephen McKinley Henderson, an award-winning actor on stage, screen and Broadway and a…

Did you know that Jerry Lewis got his theatrical start in Buffalo? At the age of 16 he was booed at a (now-gone) Burlesque house, but went back out on…

Curtain Up! events hail the official start of the theater season, and many business leaders view the celebration as a reminder that the theater industry…

One of Buffalo's prominent members of the theater community will be honor Friday night at the 2016 Curtain Up! Actress and director Mary Kate O'Connell…

Mary Kate O’Connell, a vivid presence in the Buffalo theater scene with a magnetic stage presence and a luscious soprano voice, has long been known as…

At the Stratford Festival in Ontario, THE HYPOCHONDDRIAC, based on THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Molière, is a new version of that classic by Richard Bean with…

Buffalo's Curtain Up! remains one of the premier theater events in the country. WBFO's Eileen Buckley says Friday night will mark the 34th annual…