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🏰Mobile Shakespeare Lab presents “MACBETH”
2 Performances THIS WEEK!

👑 Thu. Oct. 8 | 7:30 PM
🗡️UB Katharine Cornell Theatre
Tickets $10-$25: ubcfa.org and at the door

👑 Fri. Oct. 9 | 7:30 PM
🗡️Irish Classical Theatre Company
FREE – no ticket or reservation required

⚔️A bold new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic, directed by Danielle Rosvally. Set against the backdrop of contemporary America, three college students escape into Dungeons & Dragons as they grapple with power, identity, belonging, and survival.

💀Content advisory: Violence, war, murder, and infanticide.

✒️Season sponsor: Fox Run at Orchard Park, celebrating 8 years in support of our students.

Photo(s) courtesy of Eric Tronolone
Social Media: @erictronolone

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #UBHornsUp #Macbeth #Shakespeare #BuffaloTheatre #UBTheatre #DungeonsAndDragons #LiveTheatre @universityatbuffalo @ubacting @ub_artsandsciences @foxrunop @irishclassical by @ubtheatredance

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🟥🟧🟨 Zodiaque Dance Company 52nd Season Fall Concert
🏁 Oct. 22-23, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
🏁 Oct. 24, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.*
🏁 Oct. 25, 2026 at 2 p.m.**
🎯UB Center for the Arts Drama Theatre
❯❯❯❯ Tickets: ubcfa.org
or click the link in bio

Co-Directed by Kerry Ring & Michael Deeb Weaver. Featuring choreography by Melanie Aceto, Kurt Adametz, Ephrat Asherie, Richard Ashworth, Michael Deeb Weaver, Madeline Dembowski, Thomas Ralabate, Kerry Ring, and Jenna Zavrel.

☸ $25 Adults | $20 Seniors/Veterans/UB Employees
☸ $15 Students/Children | $10 UB Students

🟩🟦🟪 For over 50 years, Zodiaque Dance Company has showcased the creativity and artistry of UB's pre-professional dancers.

Special Experiences:
Oct. 24: Studio Night Out
Dance studios: 10 tickets for $100 + studio name on the big screen!

Oct. 25: UB Dance Day
$35 package includes a pre-show workshop, company warm-up observation, Q&A with UB dance majors, and admission to the 2 p.m. performance.

Studio Night Out tickets: ubcfatickets@buffalo.edu
UB Dance Day info: kring2@buffalo.edu

Season sponsor: Fox Run at Orchard Park 🟥🟧🟨

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #UBHornsUp
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FALL 2027 ADMISSIONS to UB Theatre and Dance

Registration for auditions and interviews is now open! Join the UB Department of Theatre and Dance by auditioning for Acting, Dance, Music Theatre, or interviewing for Theatre Design/Technology.

To register for an audition, visit: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/theatre-dance/auditions-interviews.html or click link in bio. See more details below.

BFA Acting / BFA Music Theatre
On-Campus Auditions:
Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 9am-2pm
Saturday, November 14, 2026 @ 9am-2pm
Saturday, March 6, 2027 @ 9am-2pm

Off-Campus Auditions:
Pittsburgh Unified Auditions: October 9-12, 2026 @ Pittsburgh, PA
UB Theatre and Dance New York City Auditions: Saturday, January 16, 2027 @ Pearl Studios, New York, NY
Western New York Unified Auditions: Date TBD

BA/BFA Dance
On-Campus Auditions:
Friday, October 23, 2026 @ 9am-12pm
Friday, November 13, 2026 @ 9am-12pm
Friday, March 5, 2027 @ 9am-12pm
Friday, April 2, 2027 @ 9am-12pm

Off-Campus Auditions:
Dancewave: Through College and Beyond: October 9-11, 2026 @ New York, NY
CNADM College and Career Fair: November 5-6, 2026 @ Schaumburg, IL
UB Theatre and Dance New York City Auditions: Saturday, January 16, 2027 @ Pearl Studios, New York, NY

BFA Theatre Design/Technology
On-Campus Interviews:
Saturday, October 24, 2026 @ 9am-2pm
Saturday, November 14, 2026 @ 9am-2pm
Saturday, March 6, 2027 @ 9am-2pm
Interviews are also available by appointment on a rolling basis.

Off-Campus Interviews:
Pittsburgh Unified Auditions: October 9-12, 2026 @ Pittsburgh, PA
UB Theatre and Dance New York City Auditions: Saturday, January 16, 2027 @ Pearl Studios, New York, NY
Western New York Unified Auditions: Date TBD
SETC Conference: March 3-6, 2027 @ Lexington, KY

NOTE! Registration for Acting and Music Theatre is also available via Acceptd: https://app.getacceptd.com/bufsunytheatre

#ubuffalo #ubtrueblue #ubhornsup @universityatbuffalo @ub_artsandsciences by @ubtheatredance

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🟥🟧🟨 Zodiaque Dance Company Featured in Buffalo Rising:
https://www.buffalorising.com/2026/10/versatility-matters-ubs-zodiaque-dance-company-opens-season-52-this-october/ or click link in bio

Excerpt:

“In the dance studios in the basement of the Center for the Arts, more than 50 student dancers vie for a spot in the 21-member company. The cast list announcing new company members is posted before Labor Day, and rehearsals begin for the first show of the season the following week. Founded in 1974, Zodiaque Dance Company (ZDC) has been UB’s premier pre-professional dance company, presenting innovative and creative performances for more than five decades. Now in its 52nd season under the co-direction of dance faculty members Kerry Ring and Michael Deeb Weaver, the company opens its fall concert Oct. 22, with performances running through Oct. 25 in the Drama Theatre of UB’s Center for the Arts.

“For dancers, the mix of faculty and guest choreographers offers the best of both worlds: the depth of long-term mentorship and the reach of connections beyond the university. Co-Director Kerry Ring describes the benefits of working with both kinds of choreographers: ‘Working with the dance faculty gives students the advantage of long-term familiarity with each dancer, consistent technical training, an extended creative process, and deep collaboration with the design and technology faculty. Guest artists provide a fresh perspective, new movement languages, fast, intensive rehearsals that mimic the professional scene, and current connections with a wider industry.’”

The article is by Jeanne Palmer Fornarola, Teaching Professor of Dance at the University at Buffalo. Photo by Meredith Forrest Kulwicki. Dancer: Erin Cosgrove. Special thanks for Buffalo Rising for featuring our talented students.

🟥🟧🟨 Zodiaque Dance Company 52nd Season Fall Concert
🏁 Oct. 22-23, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
🏁 Oct. 24, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
🏁 Oct. 25, 2026 at 2 p.m.
🎯UB Center for the Arts Drama Theatre
Tickets: ubcfa.org

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #UBHornsUp @universityatbuffalo @ubdance @ub_artsandsciences @ubcfa @_buffalorising taken in UB Center for the Arts (CFA) by @ubtheatredance

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The witches were feeling mischievous and our poster has a misprint! This is a repost for the upcoming public and community performances of “Macbeth.” Please join us.

🏰Mobile Shakespeare Lab presents “Macbeth” A bold new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic, directed by Danielle Rosvally. Set against the backdrop of contemporary America, three college students escape into Dungeons & Dragons as they grapple with power, identity, belonging, and survival.

👑Oct. 8, 2026 | 7:30 PM
👑Dec. 6, 2026 | 2:00 PM
🗡️UB Katharine Cornell Theatre
Tickets $10-$25: ubcfa.org

🪶FREE Community Events (No Ticket Required):
• Oct. 9 | 7:30 PM | Irish Classical Theatre Company
• Oct. 29 | 6:00 PM | Buffalo Central Library Talk with Danielle Rosvally
• Nov. 7 | 1:00 PM | Buffalo Central Library Performance

💀Content advisory: Violence, war, murder, and infanticide.

✒️Season sponsor: Fox Run at Orchard Park, celebrating 8 years in support of our students.

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #UBHornsUp #Macbeth #Shakespeare #BuffaloTheatre #UBTheatre #DungeonsAndDragons #LiveTheatre by @ubtheatredance

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“Wolf Play” has won some of the most important and prestigious awards in theater - the Lucille, Obie, Whiting and Steinberg. It is truly an amazing piece of art and fun to watch.

It tackles a lot of big issues from “re-homing” or essentially swapping kids on the internet, the huge complications of transnational Asian adoption, queer families, and patriarchal judgment from society and bureaucracy.

AND it got under all these big issues to share the humanity of everyone struggling in all their imperfect ways to belong, create a family / find their pack, and just survive in world that offers these gifts of new ways of forming identities and connections without all the customs/guard rails of an different era (with of course other downsides).

Did I say it was fun to watch? Reading the summary I was a bit worried it would just be a downer. Yet, the fact that the play really SAW everyone and celebrated the importance of belonging, I felt seen. It spoke to all of these feelings no matter what your story or family make up, even a truly lawful, nuclear one.

Also, the script was amazing, including these breakfast scenes with two or three conversations on top of one another. The court trial being a boxing scene. Brilliant in showing how violent bureaucracy and the courts and be.

The puppetry. The acting!

Congrats to everyone at @ubtheatredance

So glad I didn’t miss this.
Including the Talk Back lead by dramaturg @troy0330
Love that my Wednesday morning free exercise family @novemberprojectbuffalo got me to see this stellar, of-the-moment and timeless play.

A big part of my curatorial work has been around connection. #morelove I also had a long journey to create my family. These are my themes.

Also ran into one of my former @buffaloakgartmuseum ‘s intern who helped on “Extreme Abstraction” @andrea.aranki

Plus, I meet @mirae.kh.rhee - a scholar & artist speaking tonight 10/5 at 6:30pm at UB in the Center for the Arts on her art practice and Wed 10/7 at 12noon on “Mapping Migration, Tracing Routes of Return: South Korean Transnational Adoption and the Politics of Belonging.”

So much world-class art happening in Buffalo.

#greatartinbuffalo
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🏰Mobile Shakespeare Lab presents “MACBETH”
⚔️A bold new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic, directed by Danielle Rosvally. Set against the backdrop of contemporary America, three college students escape into Dungeons & Dragons as they grapple with power, identity, belonging, and survival.

👑Oct. 8, 2026 | 7:30 PM
👑Dec. 6, 2026 | 2:00 PM
🗡️UB Katharine Cornell Theatre
Tickets $10-$25: ubcfa.org

🪶FREE Community Events (No Ticket Required):
• Oct. 9 | 7:30 PM | Irish Classical Theatre Company
• Oct. 29 | 6:00 PM | Buffalo Central Library Talk with Danielle Rosvally
• Nov. 7 | 1:00 PM | Buffalo Central Library Performance

💀Content advisory: Violence, war, murder, and infanticide.

✒️Season sponsor: Fox Run at Orchard Park, celebrating 8 years in support of our students.

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #UBHornsUp #Macbeth #Shakespeare #BuffaloTheatre #UBTheatre #DungeonsAndDragons #LiveTheatre @universityatbuffalo @ubacting @ub_artsandsciences @foxrunop by @ubtheatredance

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16 days ago

Celebrating the cast and production team of “Wolf Play.” Opening tomorrow! Low-ticket alert for the Friday show.

4 performances this weekend: Oct. 2-4, 2026
Tickets: $10-$25, plus fees: ubcfa.org

Season sponsor: Fox Run at Orchard Park

Photos courtesy of Eric Tronolone
Social media: @erictronolone

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #UBHornsUp @universityatbuffalo @ub_artsandsciences @ubcfa
@foxrunop by @ubtheatredance

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The Oct. 3 evening performance of “Wolf Play” will feature a post-show discussion with Director / THD Faculty member Dr. Janet Werther, Assistant Director Jo Yanko, Production Dramaturg Troy Coleman, and Susan A. Green, LCSW, Clinical Professor at the UB School of Social Work and Co-Director of the Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care.

4 performances only: Oct. 2-4, 2026
Tickets: $10-$25, plus fees: ubcfa.org

Dr. Janet Werther is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo. They hold a PhD in Theatre & Performance from CUNY and an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Their work focuses on queer feminist adaptation, embodied learning, and interdisciplinary performance. Recent credits include The Secretaries (Director, UB 2025), Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (The Ballez Company), and Variations on Themes from Lost and Found (Research Dramaturg).

Jo Yanko is a Theatre major at UB and assistant director of Wolf Play. They recently completed the directing concentration of the National Theater Institute's Theatermakers program at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Previous directing work includes Chamber Music (Student Directed Series, 2025).

Susan A. Green, LCSW, is a clinical professor in the UB School of Social Work. Certified in EMDR, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Critical Incident Stress Management, she teaches trauma, resilience, diversity, and social work practice.

Troy Coleman is a Ph.D. candidate in Theatre and Performance whose research examines villains through masculinity, trauma, and disability studies, emphasizing ethics and performer wellness. He holds degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Colorado, is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, and is a certified Consent-Forward Artist.

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“’Wolf Play’ is a beautiful work by Hansol Jung. It is a memory play that tells the story of an adopted Korean boy, Jeenu, who is grappling with being shuffled from one adoptive home to a new one, contending with adults that try their best, but make mistakes. Jeenu struggles to make sense of his shifting world through a puppet and fascination with wolves. The play invites us to think about who our family is, who is in our pack, who do we choose? It is messy and funny and heartbreaking and lovely.” – Troy Coleman, UB PhD Candidate & Dramaturg

4 SHOWS this weekend only: OCT 2 – 4, 2026
UB Center for the Arts
Tickets are $10-$25, plus fees: ubcfa.org

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the work of playwright Hanson Jung, widely regarded as one of the most distinctive contemporary voices in American theatre.

Season sponsor: Fox Run at Orchard Park, celebrating eight years in support of our students.

Photos by Eric Tronolone | @erictronolone

#UBuffalo #UBTrueBlue #UBHornsUp @universityatbuffalo @ub_artsandsciences @ubcfa
@foxrunop taken in UB Center for the Arts (CFA) by @ubtheatredance

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As part of THD’s Friday Forum Guest Dance Artists program, Allison Orr will provide a guest master class on Friday, October 2, 2026.

Allison Orr is a choreographer celebrated for turning everyday labor into compelling dance. Based in Austin, Texas, she draws on her background in anthropology and social work to craft what she calls “ethnographic choreography”. Working with communities including campus facilities staff, city wastewater personnel, professional baseball players, Venetian gondoliers and others, Orr transforms the movement of work into large-scale civic performances.

Over the last two decades, Orr’s visionary work has been commissioned by festivals and institutions including Fusebox, Kyoto Art Center and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2001, she founded Forklift Danceworks, where she serves as artistic director. Her landmark work, "The Trash Project," a dance created with City of Austin sanitation workers and their trucks, earned acclaim for highlighting the artistry of labor and the importance of essential work. Orr was named a United States Artists Fellow in Dance in 2018, a recognition of her bold, community-centered approach to performance.

In 2023, she released her book titled "Dance Works: Stories of Creative Collaboration". Part memoir and part guide, Orr reflects on her decades-long work creating performances with municipal employees such as firefighters, power line workers and maintenance teams, and how community-based art projects can serve as essential tools to address civic issues. Orr’s work continues to challenge conventional notions of dance and performance, while offering collaborating community members and audiences an opportunity to acknowledge the humanity, skill and artistry in the work that sustains us all.

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Ok, but did you know !?!

2nd Gen’s student ticket price is only $15- every.single.day.

Share with your friends and come enjoy the gleefully chaotic horror comedy that is BAT BOY!!!

🎟️ sheas.org/performances/bat-boy
🔗 in our bio!

Thanks to Ingram Micro for student ticket support!
#studenttickets #buffalotheatre #batboythemusical #2ndgentheatre by @ubtheatredance

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