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BLACKFRIARS THEATRE


Rochester, NY


BT's New Year's Eve Musical Mayhem returns for its third year at Blackfriars Theatre, offering a fun alternative to traditional midnight celebrations. The evening features ...



Final Weeks to Vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards; Broadway Upstate Leads Favorite Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 22, 2025

We're in the final weeks to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Final Weeks to Vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards; MuCCC Leads Favorite Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 22, 2025

We're in the final weeks to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Blackfriars New Year's Eve Concert Returns For Third Year


by Stephi Wild - December 17, 2025

Enjoy New Year's Eve without the late bedtime at BT's New Year's Eve Musical Mayhem concert, playing two shows on December 31st at Blackfriars Theatre (795 East Main Street)....

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards; WAITRESS Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 15, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards; INTO THE WOODS Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 15, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

The Company Theatre Launches $100,000 Capital Campaign To Revitalize Historic Rochester Performance Space


by A.A. Cristi - December 11, 2025

The Company Theatre has launched the largest capital campaign in its history, aiming to raise $100,000 over two years to restore and modernize a long-dormant theatre space in downtown Rochester. ...

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards; Leads Favorite Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 08, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Latest Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards; MuCCC Leads Favorite Theatre!


by BWW Awards - December 08, 2025

The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Buffalo Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Neil Simon's RUMORS Comes to Blackfriars Theatre


by Stephi Wild - December 03, 2025

When the lights come up, it’s the night of the Brock’s 10th wedding anniversary: Mr. Brock is bleeding in the bedroom, Mrs. Brock is nowhere to be found, and as the dinner guests arrive, any attempt to “spin” what little they know of the truth results in knee-slapping, door-slamming chaos!  ...

First Standings Announced for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards; BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Leads Best Musical!


by BWW Awards - December 01, 2025

The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Central New York Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!...

Past Shows


New Year's Eve Musical Mayhem at Blackfriars Theatre features an engaging evening of Broadway favorites with a live band and a dessert and wine reception. ...

Dot
12/13 - 12/29/2024


Blackfriars Theatre presents Colman Domingo's Dot, running from December 13 to 29. The play focuses on the complexities of family dynamics as three middle-aged siblings ...


Blackfriars Theatre opens its 75th season with a revival of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, featuring Mary Tiballi Hoffman as Mrs. Lovett. ...

Silent Sky
Silent Sky
3/27 - 4/11/2020


When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isnt allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. ...

Next to Normal
Next to Normal
2/7 - 2/23/2020


Dad's an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American ...

Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher
12/13 - 12/29/2019


A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing ...

Detroit '67
Detroit '67
10/18 - 11/3/2019


In 1967 Detroit, Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into ...

Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls
8/30 - 9/15/2019


Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to ...

Avenue Q
Avenue Q
5/11 - 5/27/2018


The laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton, who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way ...

When We Were Young & Unafraid


In this powerfully poignant and moving new play, we find ourselves in 1972, before Roe v. Wade and the Violence Against Women Act. Agnes has ...

Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross
2/2 - 2/18/2018


The Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning comedy is Mamet at his very best - writing about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a ...

Little Women, The Musical
Little Women, The Musical
12/15 - 12/30/2017


The beloved adventures of the four March sisters is brought to life in this vivid and stirring new musical! Meg, Beth and Amy March are ...

Dracula
Dracula
10/31 - 11/12/2017


In his hunt for immortality, Renfield stumbles upon the Amulet of the Vampir, a lost jewel buried in the legend of Dracula, The Master. Caged ...

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
9/1 - 9/23/2017


A shipwreck on a strange shore leaves Viola with fears her twin brother is dead. She is forced to build a new life on her ...

Grease
Grease
7/7 - 7/16/2017


Blackfriars Theatre Summer Intensive (BTSI), a training program for the next generation of artists, offers up the iconic musical about the duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace ...

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 Hardbody
Hands on a Hardbody
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 challenged 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 ...

The Wedding Singer
The Wedding Singer
7/8 - 7/17/2016


Return to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up and a wedding singer might just be the coolest guy in ...

Videos


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Capital Repertory Theatre (2/5 - 2/15)
Disney's Frozen The Broadway Musical in Central New York Disney's Frozen The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage (5/13 - 6/21)
Spamalot in Central New York Spamalot
Proctors (1/6 - 1/11)
A Christmas Story in Central New York A Christmas Story
Syracuse Stage (11/25 - 12/28)
SU Drama's Picnic in Central New York SU Drama's Picnic
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