2025/26 Season Concludes

Canterbury Woods

Performing Arts Center

As our curtain falls on another season 2025/26, we want to pause and say thank you. None of this happens wthout you our residents, family members, staff and most of all our WNY public patrons. It is because of all of you, the audiences who filled our seats, laughed and cried with our casts, and kept the lights on for everyone who walked through these doors.

This season brought new stories, returning favorites, and a community that showed up again and again to support live theatre. Every ticket purchased, every round of applause, and every conversation about a show after the curtain call helped make this possible. Your presence reminded our actors, designers, and crew why this work matters.

As we concluded our last performance with Nickel City Opera on June 13^th, 2026 we also concluded with the 35^th Artie Awards presenting in 21 categories, honoring outstanding achievements from this past season productions across the region, seven nominees from four productions that were performed right here at our performing arts center. Awarding “Emanuel Fried Award” for New Play to Bella Poynton (The Girl in the Washroom), and for best “Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play” to Paige Cummings, “Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play” to Rick Lattimer in (Preservation). Congratulations to First Look Buffalo Theatre Production in producing for the first time “The Girl in the Washroom” and “Preservation”.

O’Connell & Company Theatre Production, honored for “Outstanding Ensemble of a Musical”, “Outstanding Direction of a Musical”, “Outstanding Choreography”, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical”,  “Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical” and “Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role”.

We are already dreaming up what’s next, and we can’t wait to share it with you. Until then, thank you for being part of our story this season!