Music, Book and Lyrics by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
Directed and choreographed by Doug Weyand
Music Direction by Matt MarcoOct. 31 – Nov. 2, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Nov 2 - 3, 2024
2 p.m.
UB Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre$22 Adults
$17 Seniors/Veterans/UB Employees
$12 Students
$7 UB Students
(Ticketmaster fees apply when purchasing online.)*Playbill will be available 48 hours before performance.
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In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. This popular musical is a funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!
Due to mature content, language, and themes, including references to sex, drugs, and violence, the production is recommended for ages 13+.
RIDE THE CYCLONE is presented through special arrangement with Broadway Licensing Global.
www.broadwaylicensing.comBy Anton Chekhov
English version by Sarah Ruhl
Based on a literal translation by: Elise Thoron with Natasha Paramonova and Kristin Johnsen-Neshati
Directed by Lana SugarmanNov. 8 - 9, 2024
7:30 p.m.
UB Center for the Arts Rehearsal Workshop$22 Adults
$17 Seniors/Veterans/UB Employees
$12 Students
$7 UB Students
(Ticketmaster fees apply when purchasing online.)*Playbill will be available 48 hours before performance.
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Transplanted from their beloved Moscow to a provincial Russian town, three sisters – school teacher Olga, unhappily married Masha and idealistic Irina – yearn for the city of their childhood, where they imagine their lives will be transformed and fulfilled. Three Sisters is the portrait of a family grappling with the bittersweet distance between reality and dreams. Three Sisters premiered at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 24, 2009.
Three Sisters (Ruhl) is recommended for ages 14+.
Content Note: This production includes mature content and adult themes such as references to sex, drugs and violence. A gunshot sound effect is in this production.THREE SISTERS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
www.concordtheatricals.comThe production embraces a stripped-down aesthetic. No lighting or set design, and minimal props and costumes --- effectively, conditions which mirror those which Shakespeare’s players worked in. Elizabethan actors often had only four days of rehearsal. According, our actors will take the stage with script in hand – holding scrolls upon which are their parts so they might reference as they act.
Henry VI ii has 52 named parts. Our actors will play between four and six roles each. In addition, each will be cast in two “tracks.” Before every performance, a coin flip will determine which track they play for that performance, ensuring that every performance will be unique.
As the production develops, director Dr. Danielle Rosvally is documenting the behind-the-scenes process on TikTok at: http://www.tiktok.com/@yassifiedshax (look for “Directing Henry” in the video banner).
Directed by Anne Burnidge
Choreographers: Shannon Brien, Kenny Harrison, Juliana Hassouna, Charity John, Olivia Lopez, Gia Maresca, Ariana Mullin, Kelly Quinn and Mya TranNov. 15 - 16, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Nov. 16 - 17, 2024
2 p.m.
UB Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre$22 Adults
$17 Seniors/Veterans/UB Employees
$12 Students
$7 UB Students
(Ticketmaster fees apply when purchasing online.)*Playbill will be available 48 hours before performance.
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Celebrating diversity in both genre and theme, Emerging Choreographers Showcase features new dance works created and performed by BA, BFA, and MFA dance majors. In ECS, student choreographers receive close faculty mentorship and collaborate with student lighting designers, sound designers, costumers, and technicians.
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Thembi DuncanNov. 21 – 23, 2024
7:30 p.m.
Nov. 23 - 24, 2023
2 p.m.
UB Center for the Arts Drama Theatre$22 Adults
$17 Seniors/Veterans/UB Employees
$12 Students
$7 UB Students
(Ticketmaster fees apply when purchasing online.)*Playbill will be available 48 hours before performance.
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FABULATION is a social satire about an ambitious and haughty African American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband suddenly disappears after embezzling all of her money. Pregnant and on the brink of social and financial ruin, Undine retreats to her childhood home in Brooklyn’s Walt Whitman projects, only to discover that she must cope with a crude new reality. Undine faces the challenge of transforming her setbacks into small victories in a battle to reaffirm her right to be. FABULATION is a comeuppance tale with a comic twist.
Fabulation is recommended for ages 16+.
Content Note: Strong language. Contains descriptions and depictions of cocaine and heroin drug use and mentions of abortion.FABULATION is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
www.dramatists.comCo-Directed by Joshua Ikechukwu, Amelia Rojek, and Dani Schofer
Nov. 22 - 23, 2024
at 7:30 p.m.
UB Center for the Arts
Black Box Theatre$22 Adults
$17 Seniors/Veterans/UB Employees
$12 Students
$7 UB Students
(Ticketmaster fees apply when purchasing online.)*Playbill will be available 48 hours before performance.
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The MFA Showcase offers a peek into the creative process of dancemaking, featuring works in various stages of completion from current MFA Dance students. The works are often generated collaboratively with other artists, and the Showcase offers a space for choreographers to experiment and innovate movement-based performance. The concert is under the direction of MFA students Joshue Ikechuku, Amelia Rojek, and Dani Schofer.
UB’s graduate dance program is built upon the belief that dance is a fundamental expression of humanity with the ability to inform, transform, reflect upon, and lead local and global change in the 21st century. With close faculty mentorship and numerous opportunities to create and present work, MFA Dance students engage in advanced practical, theoretical, and critical inquiry while honing their abilities as artists, dance makers, educators, writers, innovators, scholars, policy makers and leaders.
