The 2024-2025 theater season in Downtown Buffalo has been booming recently with its fresh and new astonishing performances that showcase the area’s breathtaking talent.
Downtown Buffalo has one of the largest collections of theater performance venues in the country with 22 professional theaters. Thousands of play goers visit the Theater District in Downtown Buffalo to attend a variety of live plays and musicals.
The Theater District is lucky to have the Irish Classical Theater Company along the Main Street strip as it has put on some incredibly thought-provoking and heart-warming plays during its 34th season.
The theater exhibits some of the most talented actors in the area with a production every few weeks in a small theater that leads to an “intimate experience.”
It is Western New York’s only theater-in-the-round. Meaning there are seats located and surrounding each side of a square shaped stage. The audience is entirely wrapped around the action and if seated in the front row, viewers may even feel as if they are a part of the show themselves.
Depending on the show, they can build a structure and change the set-up to a proscenium, such as they did with their most recent play, Dorian, directed by Mason Beggs.
One of Buffalo State’s newest adjunct professors teaching a class on directing, Keelie A. Sheridan, also works as the Artistic Director for the Irish Classical Theater.
Sheridan is the director for the final and upcoming show of the 34th season at ICTC titled Crocodile Fever, by award-winning playwright Meghan Tyler. The play will be opening on May 30, 2025 and will run until June 15, 2025.
The show tackles tough and serious topics such as child, domestic and sexual abuse, themes of trauma and revenge, graphic violence and gore, war, strong language, and substance abuse, according to the description on the theaters website.
The performance also features haze, flashing lighting effects, and loud sounds. The run time is approximately two hours long, including one 15-minute intermission.
Student tickets are only $15 as opposed to the typical $45. If you’re looking for an activity to do in Downtown Buffalo, be sure to check out one of the final performances of the 34th season at the Irish Classical Theater.
