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Theatre in Buffalo is back in full swing! As more and more theatre companies announce their 2022-23 seasons, we couldn’t be more excited! This is a comprehensive list of everything that will be playing this season in Buffalo, whether you like plays or musicals, there really is something for everyone! We wanted to highlight the theatre season in this roundup to give everyone the opportunity to see what’s coming and so they can get their tickets! While a few companies have yet to announce their seasons, we will be sure to add them when they do.

Theatre, Arts and Culture Round-up is published at the beginning of each month and features performance, openings, premiers, and other cultural events. We invite local theatres, museums, and arts organizations to notify us of events that they have coming up by emailing events@buffalorising.com.

Alleyway Theatre – 1 Curtain Up Alley, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-852-2600 Sept 9 – Oct 1 – The Magnolia Ballet Oct 21 – Nov 12 – Burst Dec 2022 – A Christmas Carol Feb 10, 2023 – Mar 4, 2023 – The Aleph Complex April 21, 2023 – May 13, 2023 – Kragtar! The American Monster Musical June 2023 – The Golden Girls: Lost Episodes Vol 3 Summer 2023 – Buffalo Quickies

American Repertory Theatre – 545 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222 | 716-697-0837 Sept 2022 – Paradigm Bomb Dec 2022 – The Birth of Santa Feb 2023 – Mercy Seat: works inspired by the music of Nick Cave Apr 2023 – Rust & Redemption: Requiem for a Buffalo Grunge Band

Aurora Players – 480 Prospect Ave, East Aurora, NY 14052 | 716-687-6727 Now – Aug 14 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Oct 1-23 – Into the Woods

Brazen-Faced Varlots – See listings for performance location | 716-598-1585 Oct 2022 – Titus XX

Buffalo United Artists – 1 Curtain Up Alley, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-886-9239 Oct 23 – Nov 19 – The Gentleman Caller Feb 2023 – Mar 2023 – Mediocre Heterosexual Sex

Curtain Up Productions – Lockport Palace Theatre, 2 East Ave., Lockport, NY 14094 | 716-438-1130 Sept 8-18 – Pippin Oct 13-23 – Matilda the Musical Dec 2-4 – Scrooge the Musical Jan 19-23, 2023 – The Great Gatsby: A Live Radio Play Mar 9-19, 2023 – Shrek the Musical Apr 20-30, 2023 – Million Dollar Quartet July 13-23, 2023 – The Music Man

First Look Productions – See listing for performance location | 716-771-6358 Fall 2022 – Fursona Non Grata

Irish Classical Theatre – 625 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-853-1380 Sept 16 – Oct 9 – Doubt, A Parable Nov 18 – Dec 11 – Great Expectations Jan 13 – Feb 5, 2023 – THE MAI Feb 24-26, 2023 – The Tempest (With the BPO) Mar 31 – Apr 16 – Thurgood June 2-25, 2023 – The Importance of Being Earnest

The Jewish Repertory Theatre of WNY – 2640 N Forest Rd, Getzville, NY 14068 | 716-650-7626 Oct 23 – Nov 20 – The Chosen Feb 2-26, 2023 – Tuesdays With Morrie Mar 11-12, 2023 – I’m Not A Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce Apr 27 – May 21, 2023 – Barefoot in the Park

Kavinoky Theatre – 320 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201 | 716-829-7668 Sept 2-25 – Rock of Ages Oct 28 – Nov 20 – Misery Feb 24 – Mar 19, 2023 – The Play That Goes Wrong Apr 21 – May 14, 2023 – Network June 9-25, 2023 – The Sound Inside

Lancaster Opera House – 21 Central Avenue Lancaster, NY 14086 | 716-683-1776 Sept 23 – Oct 9 – Man of La Mancha Nov 18 – Dec 4 – The Sound of Music Dec 9-11 – The Night Before Christmas Feb 24 – Mar 12, 2023 – Clue: On Stage Apr 21 – May 7, 2023 – They’re Playing Our Song June 9-25 – Grand Horizons

MusicalFare Theatre – Damen College, 4380 Main St #123, Amherst, NY 14226 | 716-839-8540 Nov 9 – Dec 11 – Beehive Jan 13-29, 2023 – Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill Feb 15 – Mar 19, 2023 – Tell Me On A Sunday Apr 12 – May 14, 2023 – Disaster! May 4-21, 2023 – Kinky Boots June 2-18, 2023 – Sondheim on Sondheim July 5 – Aug 6, 2023 – Twelfth Night

Niagara Regional Theatre Guild / Ellicott Creek Playhouse – 550 Ellicott Creek Rd, Tonawanda, NY 14150 | 716-260-2319 Sept-Oct – Kiss Me Kate November – Noises Off January-February 2023 – Hay Fever March 2023 – Something Rotten May 2023 – Guys & Dolls

Nickel City Opera Co – 1939 Harlem Rd, Buffalo, NY 14212 | 716-861-3071 | See listings for Performance Location December – Amahl & The Night Visitors June 25, 2023 – The Barber of Seville

O’Connell & Company – See listings for performance location | 716-848-0800 Sept 9-25 – Confessions of the Reverend Mother October – The Addams Family November – Return to Seymour Street December – Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical Feb 3-19, 2023 – Wicket: The Untold Story of the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village March 2023 – The Rink Apr 14-23, 2023 – Romance/Romance May 2023 – Sunset Boulevard

Road Less Traveled – 456 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-629-3069 Sept 15 – Oct 16 – Mysterious Circumstances Nov 10 – Dec 11 – Guards at the Taj Feb 23 – Mar 26, 2023 – The Thin Place Apr 20 – May 21, 2023 – Sweat

Rocking Horse Productions – 5658 Main St., Williamsville, New York. 14221 Sept 30 – Oct 9 – Brighton Beach Memoirs Dec 2-11 – Every Christmas Story Ever Told Mar 24 – Apr 2, 2023 – Dial M For Murder May 19-28, 2023 – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Second Generation Theatre Company – See listings for performance location | 716-508-7480 Oct 14 – 22 – The Secret Garden: Spring Version Mar 3 – 19, 2023 Every Brilliant Thing May 19 – June 4, 2023 – Tick, Tick…Boom!

Shakespeare in Delaware Park – 199 Lincoln Parkway, Buffalo NY 14222 Now-Aug 21 – Midsummer Night’s Dream Now – Aug 22 – The Bard’s in our Yard

Shaw Festival – 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0, Canada | 800-511-7429 Now – Sept 3 – Chitra Now – Sept 3 – Everybody Now – Sept 4 – The Importance of Being Earnest Aug 18 – Sept 16 – The Doctor’s Dilemma Aug 18 – Sept 16 – Just to Get Married Aug 18 – Sept 16 – August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean Nov 9 – Dec 23 – A Christmas Carol Nov 18 – Dec 23 – Irving Berlin’s White Christmas

Shea’s 710 Theatre – 710 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-847-1410 Sept 15 – Oct 2 – Once on This Island Nov 13 – An Evening With C. S. Lewis Nov 20 – A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Dec 1-18 – All Is Calm Mar 16 – Apr 2, 2023 – Murder on the Orient Express May 4-21, 2023 – Kinky Boots

Shea’s Buffalo – 650 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-847-1410 Sept 27 – Oct 2 – The Prom Nov 8-13 – Tina: The Tina Turner Musical Nov 22-27 – Aladdin Dec 13-18 – Come From Away Feb 21-26, 2023 – Hadestown Mar 21-26, 2023 – Beetlejuice Apr 25 – May 7, 2023 – Six June 6-11, 2023 – Jagged Little Pill June 20-25, 2023 – Dear Evan Hansen

Buffalo Art Movement – 255 Great Arrow Ave., STE 200, Buffalo, NY 14207 | 716-939-2445 Now – Aug 12 – Xiao Yang: Reentry Hyperplasia Now – Aug 12 – Shouts of Gratitude by Noma Bliss Now – Aug 12 – Humanimals by Jim Bliss Now – Aug 12 – Seth Brauchler: Sanctuaries

Buffalo Arts Studio – Tri-Main Center, 2495 Main St., Suite 500, Buffalo, NY 14214 | 716-833-4450 Now – Aug 8 – Jim Morris, On the Nature of Things Now – Sept 3 – Kyle Butler, Big Trash Day Aug 9-26 – Los Artistas del Barrio Buffalo, De aquí, De allá

Burchfield Penney Art Center – 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, New York 14222 | 716-878-6011 Now – Oct 2 – Gratitude: The Sylvia L. Rosen Endowment Purchase Awards Now – Oct 2 – Different Perspectives: A Museum Studies Exhibition Now – Oct 23 – Bruce Adams: Freeing Marks Now – Oct 30 – Martha Visser’t Hooft: Beyond the Realm of the Possible Now – Nov 7 – Praise Works from the Collection Now – Nov 27 – Bonnie Gordon: Mapping Image and Word, Stumbling into Streams of Consciousness Now–Jan 1, 2023 – Totemic Now – June 8, 2025 – Camp Everything

C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery – Brisbane Bldg, 403 Main St Suite 105, Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-225-2098 Now – Aug 13 – LAYERS works by Monica Angle and Barbara Murak

CEPA Gallery – 617 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-856-2717 Aug 6 – Oct 7 – A Soil Story: A Photographic Atlas of Our Natural Resource

K Art – 808 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-216-2941 Now – Aug 5 – Reservation for One and Indians Forever Aug 12 – Oct 7 – Tangible/Intangible

Rivalry Projects – 106 College St., Buffalo, NY 14201 | 716-217-2923 Now – Sept 2 – Susan Metrican: Married To The Ground Now – Sept 2 – Eric Ruby: Skies The Limit

Squeaky Wheel – 617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-884-7172 Now – Aug 29 – Jenson Leonard: GLAND PRIX Now – Aug 4 – DATA: Digital Art + Animation

WNY Book Arts Center – 468 Washington St., Buffalo, NY 14203 | 716-348-1430 Aug 3 – Block Fabric Printing Works Aug 13 – Cardograph Printing Workshop

Buffalo History Museum – 1 Museum Ct, Buffalo, NY 14216 | 716-873-9644 Now – November 2022 – Icons: The Makers and Moments of Buffalo Sports Now – Continuum: A History of Erie County Now – Spring 2023 – To Rescue The Color: Salvaged Renderings of the Rainbow City Colorized Pan-American Exposition Renderings Now – Aug – Creative Journeys: Celebrating the Art of Refugee Women in Western New York Now – Oct 30 – Hodinöhsö:ni’ Resurgence: Marie Watt, Calling Back, Calling Forward Aug 7 – Antique Car Show, Pan Am Walking Tour Aug 19 – Party on the Portico

Buffalo Museum of Science – 1020 Humboldt Pkwy, Buffalo, NY 14211 | 716-896-5200 Now – Senserie Now – Antarctic Dinosaurs Aug 2 – Collections Live: The Amazing, Awesome Anthropoda Aug 3 – Collections Live: Study Skins: The Science of Preservation; Collections Live: Geology with Joe, SciNight: Sensors & Arduino, Behind the Scenes Tour: Geology Rocks! Aug 6 – Solar Saturdays Aug 9 – Collections Live: The Amazing, Awesome Anthropoda Aug 10 – Collections Live: Study Skins: The Science of Preservation; Collections Live: Geology with Joe Aug 12 – Wee Explorer Storytime Aug 13 – Solar Saturdays Aug 16 – Collections Live: The Amazing, Awesome Anthropoda Aug 17 – Collections Live: Study Skins: The Science of Preservation; Collections Live: Geology with Joe, Conversations in Science: Biotechnologies Engineering, Behind the Scenes Tour: Cabinet of Curiosities Aug 20 – Solar Saturdays Aug 23 – Collections Live: The Amazing, Awesome Anthropoda Aug 24 – Collections Live: Study Skins: The Science of Preservation; Collections Live: Geology with Joe Aug 26 – Twilight at the Museum: The Summer Triangle Aug 27 – Solar Saturdays Aug 30 – Collections Live: The Amazing, Awesome Anthropoda Aug 31 – Collections Live: Study Skins: The Science of Preservation; Collections Live: Geology with Joe

Genesee Country Museum – 1410 Flint Hill Rd., Mumford, NY 14511 | 585-538-6822 Now – Aug 14 – Wading in the Oatka Creek Now – Aug 21 – Fishing at Lake Surprise Aug 4- 25 – Kids Free Days Aug 6-7 – A Novel Weekend Aug 12-14 – National Silver Ball Tournament Aug 13 – Reed Decoy Making Class Aug 19-Sept 3 – After-Hours Tour 2022: Ghost Stories of New York State Aug 27-28 – Fiddlers’ Fair & Making Music Weekend

Larkin Square – 745 Seneca St., Buffalo, NY 14210 | 716-362-2665 Aug 1 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing Aug 2 – Tiny Thai Lunchtime Food Truck Service, Food Truck Tuesday Aug 3 – Jerk Hut with Chef Darian Bryan Aug 4 – Cheesy Chick Lunchtime Food Truck Service Aug 5 – Clifford’s Red Hots Lunch Service Aug 6 – Fitness in the Parks: Zumba, Chef Darian’s Jamaican Market Aug 8 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing Aug 9 – Sun Roll Truck Lunchtime Food Service, Food Truck Tuesday Aug 10 – Jerk Hut with Chef Darian Bryan Aug 11- Buffalo Bros Burgers Lunchtime Food Truck Aug 12 – Clifford’s Red Hots Lunch Service Aug 13 – Fitness in the Parks: Zumba Aug 15 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing Aug 16 – Tiny Thai Lunchtime Food Truck Service, Food Truck Tuesday Aug 17 – Jerk Hut with Chef Darian Bryan Aug 18 – Cheesy Chick Lunchtime Food Truck Service Aug 19 – Clifford’s Red Hots Lunch Service Aug 20 – Fitness in the Parks: Zumba Aug 22 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing Aug 23 – Sun Roll Truck Lunchtime Food Service, Food Truck Tuesday Aug 24 – Jerk Hut with Chef Darian Bryan Aug 25 – Buffalo Bros Burgers Lunchtime Food Truck, Geraldine Brooks Author Talk Aug 26 – Clifford’s Red Hots Lunch Service Aug 27 – Fitness in the Parks: Zumba Aug 29 – Fitness in the Parks: Cardio Kickboxing Aug 30 – Tiny Thai Lunchtime Food Truck Service, Food Truck Tuesday Aug 31 – Jerk Hut with Chef Darian Bryan

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site – 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202 | 716-884-0095 Aug 2 – Family Nite and Museum Tour with The Albright-Knox Art Truck! 5:15-5:45, 6-6:30, 7-8 Aug 9 – “The Unexpected Inauguration” Double Decker Bus Tour

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