Art/Theater

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.

It's a packed-filled fall theatre season across the Buffalo area, and no one fills us in better than what's on stage then our Theatre Talk co-hosts Jim Santella and Anthony Chase!

One week from Friday, Curtain Up! will be held in downtown Buffalo to officially kick-off a new theatre season.

Mr. and Mrs. Nobody opens September 14th at the New Phoenix Theatre.  But if looking for something this weekend,  the Green Day musical, American Idiot is on stage Friday and Saturday at UB's Center for the Arts.

Buffalo's theatre district is preparing for this seasons Curtain Up! 

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The annual event celebrates the city's many theatre groups, large and small.   WBFO & AM-970's long-time Theatre Talk host Anthony Chase is this year's Curtain Up! chair. 

Chase and Jim Santella discuss some of upcoming fall theatre for Buffalo in this week's Theatre Talk edition.            

A Buffalo based manufacturer with roots stretching back nearly 150 years is filling an unusual order.

The Kittinger Furniture Company has been commissioned to build replicas for an upcoming thriller set in the White House.

Kittinger has made furniture for presidents for the past several decades. Sony Pictures has commissioned the company to replicate the furniture now being used in the Oval Office. 

Shaw Festival actor Ric Reid has one of the major roles of the season in Niagara-on-the-Lake this season.  He is portraying Doc in Come Back, Little Sheba. 

WBFO & AM-970's Mike Desmond had a chance to speak with stage veteran.

Silo City opens on Buffalo's waterfront Saturday.  The old, abandon and historic grain elevators will come alive for performances by Torn Space Theatre Saturday.  That kicks off this week's Theatre Talk conversation with Jim Santella and Anthony Chase. 

Preparations are underway for the 31st Annual Curtain Up! 

That discussion kicks off this week's Theatre Talk conversation with WBFO & AM 970'S Jim Santella and Anthony Chase.

Shaw Festival actor Benedict Campbell returned for his tenth season.   Tue Canadian actor appearing in Regtime and His Girl Friday.

But the veteran actor has also appeared in Straford's Shakespeare Festival for ten seasons.  WBFO & AM-970's Mike Desmond had a chance to meet Campbell and discuss his career.

You can read more about Benedict Campbell's theatre career at the Shaw Festival Website.

Cinderella at Artpark, Shakespeare in Delaware Park and Mommie Queerest -- it's all in this week's edition of Theatre Talk with Jim Santella and Anthony Chase on WBFO & AM-970.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra says it is shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of composer Marvin Hamlisch.  

Hamlisch collapsed and died Monday after a brief illness in Los Angeles. He was 68. 

Hamlisch served as the BPO Pops music conductor from 2003 to 2007.   The orchestra's marketing and communications director Susan Schwartz says Hamlisch excelled in pops music.

This week on Theatre Talk, Jim Santella and Anthony Chase discuss Far From Heaven and other stage productions.

This week on Theatre Talk, Jim Santella and Anthony Chase remember the Broadway work of Sherman Hemsley.

This week on Theatre Talk we remember the career of Broadway and film star Celeste Holm who died at the age of 95.

WBFO & AM-970's Jim Santella is on vacation this week so Anthony Chase is joined by Eileen Buckley for our conversation of the national and local theatre scene.  Jim returns next week!

This week on Theatre Talk, Jim Santella and Anthony Chase discuss productions at the Shaw Festival and at the Chautauqua Institution..

This week's Theatre Talk features a round up of local theatre on and off stage. 

Anthony Chase celebrates Buffalo Spree naming him "Best Media Personality" for his work on WBFO & AM-970'S Theatre Talk!

WBFO & AM-970's Theatre Talk co-host Anthony Chase has received a unique honor.  He has been named "Best Media Personality" by Buffalo Spree.  For nearly 25-years Chase has hosted Theatre Talk with our Blues host Jim Santella. 

Chase is assistant dean of Humanities at Buffalo State College.  He is also theatre editor at Artvoice and creator and producer of the Artie Awards.  You can read about Chase in this month's Buffalo Spree.

They talk about his famous weekly Theatre Talk sign off that you hear each Friday, "...and I'm Anthony Chase!"