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THE BASICS:  This sprightly, popular British musical from 1937 got revived in 1985, with a new book by Stephen Fry and additional songs by Noel Gay, and was even more of a hit the second time around (Eight years in London, three on Broadway)!  The Shaw Festival is presenting the revised version in repertory at the Festival Theatre through October 15th.  Ashlie Corcoran directs a cast of twenty-three.  Musical director Paul Sportelli conducts an ensemble of thirteen.  ME AND MY

THE BASICS:  This breezy, strongly theater-rooted play by Sarah Ruhl is part romantic comedy, part puckish mindbender, part backstage/onstage farce. There are even a few musical numbers tucked into this

THE BASICS:  Rousing revival of the 2005 musical hit by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, adapted from the landmark 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  Directed and choreographed by Lynne Kurdziel Formato.  The large cast (19!) includes a six wench chorus. There’s also a ten player band, led by musical director Allan Paglia.  SPAMALOT (at Kavinoky Theatre), with its single intermission, runs about two hours and twenty minutes. THUMBNAIL SKETCH:  The Middle Ages.  Arthur, King of the

THE BASICS:  Lerner and Loewe’s Scottish musical/fantasy, from 1947, is a tentpole production at the Festival Theatre this season at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake.  The cast of 26 (!)

THE BASICS: This is the WNY premiere of Shirley Lauro’s 2006 stylistic, female-centric memory-drama of the Third Reich. Produced by the Brazen Faced Varlets company, NIGHT plays on the main stage at Alleyway Theatre, weekends through Oct. 24th. Varlet co-founder Lara Haberberger directs a cast of

THE BASICS:   The area premiere of this comedy-drama/fantasy by Bekah Brunstetter  (author of “This is Us”) runs weekends (Thurs-Saturday evenings) at Alleyway Theatre through May 28th.  A.D. Chris Handley directs a cast of six.  TRAIL runs about two hours with its single intermission.  THUMBNAIL SKETCH:  The action takes place now, in 1997 and in 1848.  As Jane, an angry, troubled Millennial, comes of age, she is surprised and delighted to find that her all-time favorite video game, The Oregon Trail, has come to life, and provides

THE BASICS: This offbeat “historical” musical by Peter Rothstein plays Wednesdays through Sundays at the Shea’s 710 Theatre, through December 18th. The cast of ten (in multiple roles) has been

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THE BASICS:  The ICTC revival of this landmark 1982 Athol Fugard drama plays weekends at the Andrews Theatre through December 3rd.  Aaron Mays directs the cast of three.  “Master Harold”

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