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The Outstanding Senior Award honors one graduating senior from each department who has demonstrated exceptional diligence and promise during their time at the University at Buffalo. These students' efforts have distinguished them among their peers and set an inspiring example of academic and personal achievement. 

Theatre and Dance’s (THD) spring musical “The Pajama Game” opens April 25 at UB Center for the Arts. Given the size of the cast, live orchestra, production team, and overall scale of our musicals, the participation of non-Theatre and Dance majors is an extremely important component of a successful production.

Theatre and Dance’s (THD) spring musical “The Pajama Game” opens for a two-week run at UB Center for the Arts next Friday, April 25 – May 4, 2025. For tickets visit: www.ubcfa.org

UB Theatre and Dance Assistant Teaching Professor James Beaudry is the Director and Choreographer of our annual spring musical “The Pajama Game.” We spoke at length about Beaudry’s vast experience as a director and what audiences can look forward to when the show opens for a two-week run at UB Center for the Arts from April 25 – May 4, 2025.

UB Theatre and Dance’s annual spring musical “The Pajama Game” opens for a two-week run at UB Center for the Arts, from April 25 – May 4, 2025. Get best seats early at: https://www.ticketmaster.com/search?q=ub%20center%20for%20the%20arts%20pajama%20game

UB Theatre and Dance’s annual spring musical “The Pajama Game” opens for a two-week run at UB Center for the Arts, from April 25 – May 4, 2025. Get best seats early at:
https://www.ticketmaster.com/search?q=ub%20center%20for%20the%20arts%20pajama%20game

Congratulations to new THD Costume Shop Manager / Assistant Teaching Professor Max Levitt aka Pinwheel Pinwheel for their nomination for theatrical excellence in Costume Design in 2024 for “Reefer Madness: The Musical” by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.

The department’s production of "Fefu and Her Friends" was registered as an Associate Production in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 2 program. As such, it received a response from this weekend's run.

An abundance of UB Theatre and Dance faculty, alumni, and students are part of the production team, cast and chorus for Starring Buffalo’s new production of “CATS,” running February 27 – March 1 at Shea’s 710 Theatre in downtown Buffalo, NY. For additional information and tickets please visit StarringBuffalo.org or Sheas.org.

The Zodiaque Dance Company Celebration 50 Spring Program runs from Feb. 27 –March 2, 2025 at UB Center for the Arts. Learn more about the show and ZDC’s mission and history in a new interview and podcast with co-directors Kerry Ring and Michael Deeb Weaver on Buffalo Rising.

Junior dance and psychology major Selena Pereyra is a UB Presidential Honor’s Scholar who is very interested in the non-profit side of the performing arts, and who “really wants to bring dance to those who do not have the same chances to experience it as I do.”