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Running at the snug Mercury Theater’s Venus Cabaret space, “Lady Day” stands as a showcase for Holiday and the actress playing her, Alexis J. Roston.

The weekly Around Our Region calendar of events is published Wednesdays. Submissions may be emailed to news@wctrib.com with “Around our Region” in the subject line at least a week in advance.

From two brand-new art spaces and a retrospective of a mysterious painter to a group exhibition featuring an intergenerational host of major artists

Is there anything more fun than an opening night for “A Chorus Line?” When the curtain rose Friday night on a stage packed with dancers, the place erupted.

The sense of the over-the-top fantastical that should define the show’s core aesthetic is more shrugging than spectacular.

The new revue features a cast of six women performing music ranging from girl groups to Tina Turner to Joni Mitchell and beyond

Carlsbad company is first to land the U.S. staging rights, outside of Broadway, for this Tony-winning play about the Irish "Troubles"

This pull-no-punches play was written from the inside and if Shattered Globe can find a way to get the word out to Northwestern’s Greek Row, they’ll pack their theater.

The delightfully titled “Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons” is a high-concept romantic comedy on themes of language and communication. Its

For 30 years (as of November 2022) Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. As part of BTPM (Buffalo Toronto Public Media), their beat is primarily Buffalo theater, but Broadway, The Shaw Festival, and The Stratford Festival are covered as other relevant art forms are touched ...