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2024-2025 Productions
Antigone
November 7 - 10, 2024
by Jean Anouilh
Directed by Jennifer Toohey
Co-sponsored by Casting Hall Productions
Ride the Cyclone
March 12 - 16, 2025
By Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Directed by Sabrina Kahwaty
Co-sponsored by Casting Hall Productions
Buffalo State presents musical ‘Ride the Cyclone’ in renovated Flexible TheatreThursday Play Reading Series
Join us as we present FREE play readings and discussions. Enjoy plays selected from our student surveys or submitted by faculty and local directors. All performances will take place in the Flexible Theatre (SAVA 205), from 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.
Schedule:
February 13th
March 20th
April 10th
Theater Spotlight
Buffalo State presents musical ‘Ride the Cyclone’ in renovated Flexible Theatre
Ride the Cyclone premiered in 2008 but has recently become a viral sensation. With book, music, and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, the musical follows six teenagers whose lives are cut short by a freak roller coaster accident. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller named Karnak invites each to compete for the ultimate prize—the chance to return to life.
This month, Ride the Cyclone is presented in the round—i.e. with audience seated on all sides of the stage—by the Buffalo State Theater Department and Casting Hall Productions. It is the university’s first production in the newly renovated Flexible Theatre, located in the Donald Savage Theater and Communication Building.
Theater News
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