Theatre Plus presents the WNY premiere of the one woman theatrical hit No Child… by Nilaja Sun with the opening performance tonight. No Child…, set in a fictitious urban public school, has collected numerous awards including a 2007 Obie Award, a 2007 Lucille Lortel Award and both 2007 Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best New American Play and Outstanding Solo Performance. No Child… also took top honors at the 2007 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Awards and the 2007 Theater World Awards, the play will star local actor Victoria Perez and will be directed by Theatre Plus Artistic Director Kim Piazza.

Nilaja Sun’s groundbreaking story teems with the students, teachers and staff of Malcolm X High School, which is more like a penitentiary than a place of learning. As a new ‘teaching artist’, the heroine faces students with countless psychological and learning challenges, who have trouble sitting still, never mind memorizing lines from “Our Country's Good”, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, a 1988 play about a group of convicts in an Australian penal colony in the late 1780s.

The playwright, Nilaja Sun suggests (through over 16 characters, including an elderly janitor, a Jamaican gum-popping, metal detector wielding security guard and countless students and teachers), that President George W. Bush’s ‘No Child Left Behind Initiative’, which calls for continual testing, has hindered educators searching for desperate ways to rescue an educational system careening out of control. The performance is at its’ tragic-comic best when vocalizing the classroom cacophony – the racist and sexist name-calling, the thuggish attitudes, and the distracted insanity- that forces actual instruction to take a back seat to crowd control. At its core, No Child… calls attention to the promise we have to millions of children, both nationally and here in Buffalo, a promise to a future.

Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take "no" for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone “serious,” Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Legally Blonde The Musical has been created by a dean's list of top-of-their-class Broadway talent, including Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray); composer and lyricist Laurence O'Keefe (Batboy) and Nell Benjamin (Sarah, Plain and Tall); book writer Heather Hach (Freaky Friday); and scenic designer David Rockwell (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

Legally Blonde The Musical will take you from the sorority house to the halls of justice with Broadway's brightest new heroine (and of course, her chihuahua, Bruiser). The verdict? This much fun shouldn't be legal!

Legally Blonde The Musical opens tonight in Buffalo.

New play development reading of “Murder Squared” by Gary Earl Ross, directed by Doug Zschiegner. Buffalo State College Donald Savage Theatre building, second floor Flexible Theatre. For more information, call 716.878.6418.

New play Development Reading of “Love Dot Com” by Tom Paul Fox, directed by Theater Department Chair Drew Kahn. For more information, call 716.878.6418.

Torn Space's Area opens tonight. A crime scene contains a most visceral stillness. But before it settles, one girl will insist it was not her doing, while another, covered in dust and grease, quietly shakes, soon becoming still.

"But when did she come home?" - She never came home.

Area utilizes live feed video along with pre-recorded images to confront two individuals on stage, casting them into a manipulated world of horror and deception. It forces them to grasp at memories of the past and situations of the present while their environment is confined to a clinical space, shaped by an outside technical force.

Tonight marks the world premier of Tromping on Sacred Ground by Suzanne C. Dickie. Scientist Thomas Huxley steps forward to support Charles Darwin’s newly published theories on nature and evolution only to become the most ridiculed man in London. Public controversy interferes with his private life, taking a toll on his family. The Victorian world, on the brink of change, attempts to resist the inevitable. Winner of the 2007 Mazumdar New Play Competition! Directed by Thomas Dooney. Suitable for all audiences.

What: Come celebrate the launch of 20.20.20, the Irish Classical Theatre’s new rush ticket program designed with your lifestyle and budget in mind!

Why: You’ve had a hectic work week…join us at the theatre to unwind with appetizers, drinks at the bar, live music, chair massages, and a performance of Bill Roche’s The Calvacaders, a haunting play that will transport you with its story of love, loss and betrayal.

How: Tickets are available at the door beginning at 5:30PM – 150 tickets available! Price includes one complimentary beverage, appetizers, door prize raffle, and a ticket to the 7:30 performance of The Calvacaders.

Sponsors: Obviously Avi Catering, Distinctive Occasions, Buffalo Rising

The Nichols Upper School Theatre program will present “Three Farces and a Funeral,” adapted by Robert Brustein, based on the life and work of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Three of Chekhov's most beloved and hysterical farces, “The Proposal,” “The Bear” and “The Wedding,” are intercut with “knee plays” between Anton Chekhov and his wife Olga Knipper, an actress with the Moscow Art Theater, based on actual letters exchanged by the famous couple.

Come to the theatre expecting to laugh. Directed by arts department chair and actress Kristen Tripp Kelley and stage managed by junior Sebastian Augustine, the production will feature students from all Upper School grade levels. Christopher Cavanagh will design and dance teacher Elaine Gardner will choreograph. Gardner also is director and choreographer of the Nichols Dance Ensemble and founder of Pick of the Crop Dance.

Fresh from London’s Royal National Theatre (and a multi-Tony-nominated run on Broadway) comes this chilling Christmas tale of buried secrets. When a group of hard-drinking Irishmen gather for a game of cards on Christmas Eve, they find a Joker in their midst.

The Seafarer opens tonight and runs through December 13, 2008.

Jewish Repertory Theatre presents a landmark script from the 1930s written by Clifford Odets. Three generations of The Berger family share an apartment in The Bronx in order to survive the hardships of the Great Depression. Yet, young Ralph and his sister Henny are eager to strike out their own and to flee the nest. What is the price of youthful freedom? What is the cost of broken ambition?

Starring Saul Elkin, Ellen Horst, Peter Jaskowiak, Susan Drozd, Don Gervasi, David Butler, Tom Zindle, Lawrence Rowswell and introducting Brian Cameron.

Tickets on sale November 5 at JCC Buffalo and JCC Getzville, visit our website, send an email or phone at 716.688.4114 x391.