Art/Theater

This week on Theatre Talk -- Neil Simon's "God's Favorite" at Lancaster Opera House.  Radio Golf -- at  The Manny Fried Playhouse and the Jewish Repertory Theatre performs the whipping man.

Each Friday WBFO brings you Theatre Talk with co-hosts Jim Santella and Anthony Chase.  For 20 years they've teamed up to discuss Buffalo's rich theatre & arts programs.

This week Jim & Tony dig into 33 Variations now on stage at Musicalfare.  It features Beethoven's Diabellia Variations. 

Buffalo State's Music Department will unveil a brand new concert hall Sunday, November 4.  A ribbon cutting will be held for a multi-million dollar, 194-seat recital hall. 

Just in time for the Halloween season, Jekyll and Hyde the Musical will open at Shea's Performing Arts Center.   WBFO's Theatre Talk hosts Jim Santella and Anthony Chase kick off this week's conversation with a review of the show.

This week on Theatre Talk, WBFO's co-hosts Jim Santella and Anthony chase discuss The Book of Mormon.

Plus, a Victorian comedy called Mr. and Mrs. Nobody and the Bread and Puppet Theatre tour stops for a one-night show at the Foundry in Buffalo.

This week's Theatre Talk chat kicks off with a discussion on Young Audiences.

WBFO & AM-970's Jim Santella and Anthony Chase also review "A  Streetcar Named Desire" -- now on stage through this weekend at Torn Space in Buffalo.  And a reminder about Knuffle Bunny at the Theatre of Youth! 

St. Bonaventure University is celebrating the Feast of St. Francis with some special events.  Tuesday evening  Italian stage star Mario Pirovano will perform Francis, The Holy Jester by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo. 

St. Bona philosophy professor Dr. Michael Chiariello traveled to Italy where he convinced Pirovano to perform his internationally acclaimed one-man show in the U-S.  He agreed. 

WBFO & AM-970's Eileen Buckley had the privilege of interviewing Pirvoano just hours after arriving in Buffalo to discuss his North American tour. 

Billy Elliot The Musical is on stage at Shea's Performing Arts Center.

The story of a small town boy in England who takes ballet class while his father thinks he is at boxing lessons. 

WBFO & AM-970's Theatre Talk critics Jim Santella and Anthony Chase discuss the musical and review other local theatre.

An iconic American folk rock duo has just embarked on a brand new tour.

The Indigo Girls are conducting their first-ever symphony tour.  They will be performing on stage this Friday night,  September 28 at 8 p.m. with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhans Music Hall. 

WBFO & AM-970's Eileen Buckley had a chance to talk with The Indigo Girls' Amy Ray, who explains why they decided to perform their hit songs with symphony orchestras.

When the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra opens its season tomorrow night, patrons might notice a sharper sound.  Renovation work was conducted to Kleinhans Music Hall over the summer.   The work has altered the acoustics to its original sound.

A few BPO members were warming up for rehearsal on the main stage Thursday morning.  When you enter the auditorium you can smell new carpeting.   All the seating -- more than 1,500 seats -- were carefully pulled out for the carpet installation. 

Seth's Big Fat Broadway Show was one of the first show's of the season at 710 Main Theatre in downtown Buffalo.

Seth Rudetsky is the nationally known Broadway host on Sirius/XM radio.  His new touring one-man show came to Buffalo last week for Curtain Up! 

Theatre Talk co-hosts Jim Santella and Anthony Chase kick off this week's theatre review discussing the show.

Buffalo's fall theatre season takes center stage Friday evening with the 31st Annual Curtain Up!

WBFO & AM-970"s  Theatre Talk co-host Anthony Chase is this year's Curtain Up's chair.   Chase joins Jim Santella for a preview of tonight's event and planned performances.

Shea’s Performing Arts Center officially unveiled its brand new brass doors in downtown Buffalo.

The doors are replicas of the Main Street original doors of 1926. 

Shea’s President Anthony Conte said local companies assisted in the replica project.

"We believe that these doors are exactly the same as the doors that were hear 86-years-ago," said Conte during a news conference Thursday morning in front of Shea's on Main Street.

The Pearl Street entrance doors to Shea's are also being replaced.