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Auditions

Love Notes: A Valentine's Revue

Auditions will be held September 11, 2025, from 4 - 8 pm in the Flexible Theatre, Donald Savage Building.

Prepare a 32-bar cut (approx 1 min) of your favorite love song from a musical and an accompaniment (karaoke) track. 

Sign up for a timeslot here.

Featured Alumnus: Marco Antonio Rodriguez ('97)

Marco Antonio Rodriguez

Marco's New Play Premieres Off-Broadway in April! 

Domino Effect

https://www.marcoantoniorodriguez.com/  

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2649755/
 

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2025-2026 Productions

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

November 12 - 16, 2025

Adapted by Joe Landry

It's a Wonderful Life is based on the story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern. "The Greatest Gift" is used by permission of The Greatest Gift Corporation

Co-sponsored by Casting Hall Productions

This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. With the help of an ensemble that brings a few dozen characters to the stage, the story of idealistic George Bailey unfolds as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve.

 

Pipeline

April 15 - 19, 2026

By Dominique Morisseau 

Directed by Jennifer Toohey

Co-sponsored by Casting Hall Productions

Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? 

With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is. 

Thursday 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:

September 11

October 9

November 6

December 4

Theater Spotlight

Cast of Ride the Cyclone

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.

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