NEGarvey: July 2011 Archives

City July 28, 2011 11:45 AM
GOOD DEED DOERS - BAVPA Students strike again !
THE PINBALLS by Aurand Harris
 
Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts - Black Box Theatre
 
FRIDAY, JULY 29TH at 7PM
SATURDAY, JULY 30TH at 2PM
 
Just when you begin to think today's youth will never amount to anything, just when the Delaware Park Rose garden is vandalized or there is another spate of graffiti, Buffalo's kids do something remarkable and restore one's faith in the future.
 
Students from the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (BAVPA) have teamed up with Child and Family Services of Erie County, Inc. to present the play THE PINBALLS. Written by Aurand Harris and adapted from the children's book by Betsy Byars, THE PINBALLS tells the story of three foster children, "desperately searching for a safe place to call home. They are taken in by the lovely Mrs. Mason who gives them the greatest gift of all, a chance to experience family and hope."
 
BAVPA is, of course, one Buffalo's
lifestyle July 1, 2011 9:08 AM
A Merchant of Venom: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice has been making the rounds.  Last year it was superstar Al Pacino as Shylock in the Public Theatre's production in Central Park (later transferred to a limited Broadway run) This year the Royal Shakespeare Company's production at Stratford-Upon-Avon features superstar  Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard to you Star Trek junkies).  And now in Delaware Park, Buffalo's own superstar,  Saul Elkin, takes on the troublesome role of Shylock in a wonderful, animated, and soulful production directed by Brian Cavanagh.

Mr. Cavanagh, best known as Buffalo's