Recent News

Cellist and Western New York native, Adriana Maria Pera joined UB Theatre and Dance in 2022 as Assistant Director of Academic Advisement / Senior Academic Advisor for the College of Arts and Sciences. after a near 10-year career in the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY. Adriana brings expertise as a teacher, advisor and curricular designer into her role to better serve the faculty and students.  

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 "The Pajama Game" was registered as an Associate Production in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 2 program. As such, it received a response from its recent two-week run.

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.”

Congratulations to the students and faculty who proudly represented the Department of Theatre and Dance (THD) and UB at the 57 annual Region II Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) at the Playhouse Theatre in Pittsburgh, January 14-18, 2025. KCACTF is a national theater program involving 18,000 students from universities across the country. It exists to celebrate the educational and creative process of college theatre. There are eight regions in the United States and winners of regional festivals advance to the annual national event hosted in Washington D.C.

Earlier this month, Clinical Assistant Professor of Theatre Lana Sugarman directed staged readings of the new play The Vase by Tyler Whidden, with Seat of the Pants (SOTP), an ensemble-based, process-driven theatre company in Cleveland.