The Buffalo Chronicle
Music and Entertainment
Live music, theater, performances and events across Western New York.
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An Oscar winner’s film about the Amherst McDonald’s that sheltered blizzard strangers comes to HBO Nov. 24
HBO’s The Buffalo Miracle, directed by two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and executive-produced by Josh Allen, debuts Nov. 24. It tells how an Amherst McDonald’s crew sheltered more than 50 people in…
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Kurt Vile, Robert Cray and Alter Bridge make it a guitar-heavy week in Buffalo
Corrosion of Conformity and Kurt Vile start tours in Buffalo this week, Robert Cray plays Rockwell Hall and Alter Bridge closes things out at RiverWorks, with the Goo Goo Dolls’ FeedMore benefit…
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Hell’s Kitchen leads a crowded theater week downtown as Shea’s builds its next century
Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen opens a weeklong run at Shea’s Buffalo in the theater’s centennial year, alongside a Sweeney Todd revival, a world-premiere comedy and a 1960s-set Julius Caesar, while a $34.5…
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The BPO premieres its second new work this month, a Leshnoff symphony written for the orchestra
Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 5 gets its world premiere at Kleinhans this weekend, with JoAnn Falletta conducting and Associate Concertmaster Amy Glidden playing Bruch. It’s the BPO’s second premiere in two weeks.
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Erie County’s budget holds Buffalo’s stages to last year’s dollars and leaves out a dozen groups its own reviewers backed
Poloncarz’s 2027 budget recommends $8.5 million for 112 arts groups, $113,862 less than this year. The BPO, Shea’s and most theaters are held flat, and 12 groups the county’s own planning department…
