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Once again, for the 28th time, the curtains rise on a new theater season with the uniquely Buffalonian Curtain Up! celebration, which begins with cocktails, an evening of theater-going, and then a big street party. This year, event co-chair Robert Brunschmid, managing director of Theatre of Youth, promises some improvements that he hopes will make this year especially memorable.
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Keith Waterhouse, the celebrated novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and newspaper columnist, dubbed the King of Fleet Street by his peers, died on September 4 at the age of 80. Waterhouse, who achieved fame with his 1959 novel, Billy Liar, had a special connection to Buffalo, as his son Robert, is the artistic director of the New Phoenix Theatre here, and his 1989 play, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, was a successful vehicle for David Lamb, who played the role, created in London by Peter O’Toole, twice at the Kavinoky Theatre, under the younger Waterhouse’s direction.
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