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BLACKFRIARS THEATRE


Rochester, NY



Central New York Critics Wanted

BWW is always seeking talented theater enthusiasts to head up feature coverage our over 130 regional areas. As a Contributing Editor, you will have the opportunity to review the shows of your choice, conduct interviews with local and touring talent, design features of your own choosing for publishing, and work/network with your local theater press reps to bring exposure to the theatrical offerings in your area.

All applicants should have excellent writing skills and an interest for giving local theaters and productions some prominence on BroadwayWorld.com.

Your compensation as a featured writer with us not only includes exclusive press seats to all of the shows you cover (as is standard in your area and arranged between you and the theater) but also the opportunity to be published under your own byline and publishing profile on both the local and main pages of the site for maximum exposure to our 5M+ monthly visitors.

If this sounds like you, please send a resume and one writing sample to social@broadwayworld.com.

Past Shows

BT's New Year's Eve Musical Mayhem
Dec 31

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...

New Year's Eve Musical Mayhem
Dec 31

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
Dec 13 – Dec 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...

Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sep 6 – Sep 22, 2024

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
Mar 27 – Apr 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
Feb 7 – Feb 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
Dec 13 – Dec 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
Oct 18 – Nov 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
Aug 30 – Sep 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
May 11 – May 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
When We Were Young & Unafraid
Mar 23 – Apr 8, 2018

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
Feb 2 – Feb 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
Dec 15 – Dec 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
Oct 31 – Nov 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
Sep 1 – Sep 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
Jul 7 – Jul 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
May 5 – May 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
Mar 17 – Apr 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
Feb 3 – Feb 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
Dec 16 – Dec 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
Oct 28 – Nov 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
Sep 2 – Sep 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
Jul 8 – Jul 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...

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