ART/WNY offers Dramatists Guild members $10 tickets for all shows. Regular tickets are $20/$15 student or military.

There are several bars/restaurants nearby, so we get a drink and discuss the show afterward.

Keep an eye out for an April 10 message about my annual Pizza Briefing and Idea Forum.

Coming off a winter hiatus, ART/WNY kicks off the second half of the 2016-17 season with Picasso at Lapin Agile , Steve Martin's wild satirical adaptation of the classic 1910 German farce Die Hose by Carl Sternheim. Artie Award winning director Jeffrey Coyle (Floyd Collins; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) returns to ART/WNY to oversee this hysterical romp. The Underpants is scheduled to open on March 9 and runs through April 1.

Candice Kogut returns to ART ( Hello Again) as the flashing Louise Maske having to answer to her esteemed husband Theo Maske played by ART alumni (and company fav) David Mitchell. The Underpants also features an assortment of characters including the enamored (read: horny) team of Frank Versati played by ART debuting Ben Caldwell, and Benjamin Cohen, played by ART alumni Rich Kraemer. Pam Mangus will also make her return to the ART stage as the upstairs neighbor Gertrude Deuter, and rounding off the cast as Klinglehoff is Michael Starzinski (also a company fav).