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Blackfriars Theatre Announces Sponsor For 2023-2024 Season


by A.A. Cristi - July 20, 2023

Blackfriars Theatre has announced that Trillium Health will sponsor its 2023-2024 season, which will run from July 28, 2023 to May 26, 2024....

Blackfriars Theatre Hosts Punchbowl: Comedy on the ROCS Next Month


by Stephi Wild - May 26, 2023

On Friday, June 30th, Blackfriars Theatre (795 East Main Street, Rochester) will be offering a one night only comedy event. Is it a party? Is it a performance? Yes! Blackfriars Punchbowl: Comedy on the ROCS is a combination of some of the finest and funniest comedy folks in Rochester, with a party i...

PUSH Physical Theatre and Penny Sterling Present the World Premiere Of SOMEONE NO ONE CAN SEE


by Stephi Wild - May 02, 2022

Two Rochester award-winners – PUSH Physical Theatre and storyteller Penny Sterling – have combined forces to create Someone No One Can See, which will make its world premiere at Blackfriars Theatre for nine performances....

Blackfriars Closes Out The 21-22 Season With An Audience Favorite CALENDAR GIRLS


by A.A. Cristi - April 21, 2022

Blackfriars Theatre wraps up its 72nd Season with the stage adaptation of the hit movie, Calendar Girls. Written by Tim Firth and based on the Miramax Motion Picture by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth, the play retains all of the heart and joy inspired by the Helen Mirren starring film. ...

Blackfriars Continues Their 21-22 Season With A Regional Premiere Of SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY


by Stephi Wild - March 18, 2022

Blackfriars Theatre continues its 72nd Season in downtown Rochester with the Regional Premiere of rising playwright Chisa Hutchinson's new piece, Surely Goodness and Mercy. Receiving a rolling world premiere from the National New Play Network only 4 years ago, Surely Goodness and Mercy, made its Off...

Blackfriars Opens JERRY'S GIRLS This Weekend


by A.A. Cristi - December 14, 2021

Blackfriars Theatre continues its 72nd Season in downtown Rochester with the musical revue Jerry's Girls. An affectionate celebration of American musical theatre and a captivating tribute to the Tony Award-Winning tunesmith Jerry Herman, Jerry's Girls brings the 'larger-than-life' women of Broadway ...

Blackfriars Theatre Opens The 21-22 Season With Two Productions In Rep


by Stephi Wild - October 08, 2021

Blackfriars Theatre returns to live, indoor performances this October with two beautiful and heart-warming productions to kick off its 72nd Season in downtown Rochester. Pretty Fire by Charlayne Woodard is a one-woman tour de force and is the recipient of the NAACP Theatre Awards for Best Play and B...

KeyBank Rochester Fringe Show Submissions Open Tonight


by A.A. Cristi - June 08, 2021

Starting today at 7 PM (EST), shows may apply to participate in the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival via rochesterfringe.com through Tuesday, June 29.  ...

Past Shows

Death Of A Salesman
Death Of A Salesman
5/5 - 5/21/2017


In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the ...

Hands On A Hard Body
Hands On A Hard Body
3/17 - 4/2/2017


For 10 hard-luck Texans, a new lease on life is so close they can touch it. Under a scorching sun for days on end, armed ...

The Underpants
The Underpants
2/3 - 2/19/2017


Theobald Maske has an unusual problem: his wife’s underpants won’t stay on. One Sunday morning they fall to her ankles right in the middle of ...

The Flight Before Christmas
The Flight Before Christmas
12/16 - 12/31/2016


Ladies and gentlemen, put your seats in their full upright positions, stow your worries in the overhead compartment, and fasten your seat belts for a ...

The Boys Next Door
The Boys Next Door
10/28 - 11/13/2016


In a New England communal residence, four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly “burned out” young social worker named ...

Assassins
Assassins
9/2 - 9/24/2016


Touted as “bold, disturbing, and alarmingly funny,” Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the ...

Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard
5/16 - 6/14/2014


Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit Broadway musical based on the classic Billy Wilder film. Former great Hollywood screen legend Norma Desmond seduces the washed ...

The HOT L Baltimore
The HOT L Baltimore
3/28 - 4/21/2014


This classic comedy focuses on a run-down hotel's wacky residents who are faced with eviction when the structure is condemned....

Boeing Boeing
Boeing Boeing
1/24 - 2/8/2014


The 2008 Broadway revival smash features a playboy juggling his 3 fiancees, each a gorgeous airline hostess, until unexpected schedule changes bring all three together ...

It's A Wonderful Life
It's A Wonderful Life
12/13 - 12/22/2013


Frank Capra's masterpiece film classic is imagined as a 1940's live radio broadcast as a group of actors re-create the timeless holiday classic. With this ...

The Santland Diaries
The Santland Diaries
12/14 - 12/22/2013


David Jason Kyle returns again as everyone's favorite cranky Christmas elf, Crumpet - taking out his frustrations on the children and parents during Macy's holiday ...

Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie
11/14 - 11/24/2013


TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is the autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor. ...

Me and Jezebel
Me and Jezebel
10/18 - 10/27/2013


Those masters of wigs and make-up star in a hilarious romp about the time Bette Davis came to dinner at a fan's home and stayed...and ...

Rent
Rent
7/19 - 7/28/2013


RENT, the Pulitzer prize winning landmark rock musical make's it's Blackfriars premier in a radically reinterpreted production in "the round." Bringing the show full circle, ...

Steel Magnolias
5/17 - 6/2/2013


The now classic story of 6 woman who's close-knit circle gather in Trudy's Beauty Parlor in modern-day Louisiana. This charming and very funny play is ...

33 Variations
4/12 - 4/27/2013


A mother coming to terms with her daughter. A composer coming to terms with his genius. And, even though they're seperate by 200 years, these ...

Grey Gardens: The Musical
Grey Gardens: The Musical
4/28 - 5/12/2012


The hilarious and heartbreaking story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - once bright ...

The Little Dog Laughed
The Little Dog Laughed
3/3 - 3/17/2012


This recent Broadway hit follows the adventures of young Hollywood heartthrob Michael Green who could hit it big if it weren't for one teensy-weensy problem: ...

The Year of Magical Thinking


In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning and best-selling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and ...

Tom Foolery
Tom Foolery
12/3 - 1/7/2012


In concerts, television appearances and a series of now classic recordings, the Harvard educated math professor delighted millions of fans during the 1950s and 60s ...

The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries
12/16 - 12/21/2011


David Jason Kyle returns for his third straight year as everyone's favorite cranky Christmas elf, Crumpet - taking out his frustrations on the children and ...

The Mystery of Irma Vep
The Mystery of Irma Vep
10/22 - 11/5/2011


This definitive spoof of Gothic melodramas is a quick change marathon in which two actors play all the roles. A sympathetic werewolf, a vampire and ...

Videos


Oklahoma! in Buffalo Oklahoma!
O’Connell & Company (5/3 - 5/19) Tracker
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical in Buffalo Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Auditorium Theatre (6/4 - 6/9)
The Price in Buffalo The Price
Irish Classical Theatre Company (4/19 - 5/12)
Shrek the Musical (Non-Equity) in Buffalo Shrek the Musical (Non-Equity)
Shea's Performing Arts Center (5/16 - 5/19)
THE AI AT DELPHI in Buffalo THE AI AT DELPHI
First Look Buffalo Theatre Company (4/26 - 5/19)
The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence in Buffalo The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
Road Less Traveled Productions (4/18 - 5/19)
Les Miserables in Buffalo Les Miserables
Auditorium Theatre (10/15 - 10/20)
Shrek the Musical (Non-Equity) in Buffalo Shrek the Musical (Non-Equity)
Auditorium Theatre (5/11 - 5/12)
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