Entertainment
Already home to 22 professional theater companies, Buffalo’s reputation as a center for the arts continues to grow. You’ll find Broadway musicals at Shea’s Performing Arts Center, a European-style opera house of real grandeur in the heart of the city’s downtown; classic and contemporary musicals at MusicalFare Theatre; the greatest works of dramatic literature at the Irish Classical Theatre Company; pieces by African-Americans and people of color at Ujima Theatre and the Paul Robeson Theatre; work by up-and-coming and undiscovered playwrights at the Alleyway Theatre; an eclectic menu of musicals, comedies and drama at the lovely and intimate Theatre of Youth in the beautifully-restored Allendale Theatre in the historic Allentown neighborhood.
The Buffalo Chamber Music Society are both at home in the acoustic and architectural perfection of the internationally-acclaimed Kleinhans Music Hall.
Courtesy Full Circle Studios
Artpark, in nearby Lewiston, overlooks the magnificent Niagara Gorge, where a series of shows - from Broadway to bluegrass and the blues - is held between June and September.
University at Buffalo’s Center for the Arts in suburban Amherst also hosts a full schedule of concerts, dance performances and lectures.
You’ll find jazz at the Town Ballroom downtown; and experimental and avant-garde music at Nietzsche’s and the Sportsmen’s Tavern in Black Rock, alternative rock at Elmwood Lounge.
Come see – and hear – what you’ve been missing.
