About the Theatre
Geva Theatre is an active member of the Rochester community. In addition to connecting with audiences through its productions, Geva Theatre offers a wide variety of educational, outreach, literary and community engagement programs designed to:
- Enrich and deepen the theatre going experience for our current audience
- Provide affordable theatre to the Rochester community, including thousands of students
- Develop new plays and playwrights, and nurture the audiences and artists of the next generation
The Woman in Black
1/14 - 2/8/2026
The second longest-running play in the history of the West End, The Woman in Black is a chilling drama, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the ...
Barefoot in the Park
2/24 - 3/29/2026
Opposites attract in Neil Simon’s celebrated romantic comedy. Newlyweds Paul, a straight-laced lawyer, and Corie, a free-spirit, have barely returned from their honeymoon, and their ...
Furlough's Paradise
4/14 - 5/10/2026
Winner of the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Winner of the 20th Annual Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. On a three-day furlough for her ...
Baron Vaughn: Cycle Breaker
4/28 - 6/7/2026
Nothing brings your own childhood into focus like raising your own children. Married 40-something father, Baron Vaughn digs into his own past to understand how ...
Anastasia: the Musical
5/27 - 6/28/2026
This Tony Award-nominated musical inspired by the beloved films takes us on a journey to the past. Iconic songs like Once Upon a December, Learn ...
Review: PURE NATIVE at Geva Theatre
by Colin Fleming-Stumpf - April 24, 2025
Geva Theatre’s latest production, Pure Native by Vickie Ramirez, is a gripping and gorgeously realized exploration of identity, tradition, and the complicated interplay between cultural survival and economic progress. ...
Review: LITTLE WOMEN at Geva Theatre
by Colin Fleming-Stumpf - March 02, 2025
Geva Theatre’s production of Little Women is superb—a moving, beautifully crafted adaptation that honors Alcott’s legacy while offering fresh insights into Jo’s artistic journey....
Review: NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN at Geva Theatre
by Colin Fleming-Stumpf - January 24, 2025
What did our critic think of NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN at Geva Theatre?...
Past Shows
Sancocho
10/14 - 11/23/2025
Caridad is determined to teach her younger sister to cook the family recipe for the traditional beef stew, sancocho—but Renata only wants her to review ...
The Play That Goes Wrong
9/9 - 10/12/2025
A long-running commercial success on the West End and Broadway comes to Geva! The intrepid thespians of the Cornley Drama Society are more or less ...
Always...Patsy Cline
7/15 - 8/3/2025
Get ready for a toe-tapping, heartwarming celebration of one of country music’s most legendary voices! Always…Patsy Cline brings the iconic singer’s hits to life in ...
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
5/28 - 6/29/2025
Before she was hit-maker Carole King, she was Carole Klein, an up-and-coming songwriter from Brooklyn. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is the inspiring story of ...
Pure Native
4/15 - 5/11/2025
Brewster’s back after almost a decade and things have changed. Brews is proud of his success working for a large corporation, and wants to share ...
Little Women
2/25 - 3/23/2025
Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel comes to fresh life in this inventive, theatrical adaptation which follows as the March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and ...
Nina Simone: Four Women
1/14 - 2/9/2025
On September 16, 1963, Nina Simone heard that four Black girls were murdered in Birmingham when the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed by the ...
Geva's A Christmas Carol
11/23 - 12/29/2024
Rochester’s favorite holiday tradition returns in a refreshed adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic story by Award-winning playwright Harrison David Rivers! Beginning with a wish made ...
How I Learned What I Learned
10/15 - 12/1/2024
From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes this autobiographical one-actor play chronicling Wilson’s life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsburgh. Through ...
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
9/25 - 10/27/2024
Mel Brooks’ comedic genius meets black and white horror movies in this electrifying musical comedy! When Dr. Frederick Frankenstein inherits his infamous grandfather’s estate in ...
The Color Purple
5/28 - 6/23/2024
The Color Purple By Alice Walker Book by Marsha Norman Music & Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis & Stephen Bray Directed by Daniel J. ...
Newtown
4/16 - 5/12/2024
Newtown - WORLD PREMIERE By Dan O’Brien Directed by Elizabeth Williamson The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater co-commissioned Dan O’Brien to write a ...
Videos
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Hello, Dolly!
OFC Creations Theatre Center (1/29 - 2/14) | |
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Hitmakers: Rewind
CenterStage Theatre at the JCC (2/7 - 2/22) | |
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The Prom
Callahan Theater (4/2 - 4/4) | |
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Disney's Frozen The Broadway Musical
Syracuse Stage (5/13 - 6/21) | |
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Kimberly Akimbo
West Herr Auditorium Theatre (3/24 - 3/29) | |
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SU Drama's A Rebel Prayer
SU Drama's "A Rebel Prayer" (3/27 - 4/5) | |
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Lyric Theatre
Lyric Theatre (11/11 - 1/30) | |
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Fefu and Her Friends
Hubbard Hall Center for the Arts and Education (5/1 - 5/10) | |
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Bat Out of Hell The Musical
West Herr Auditorium Theatre (3/21 - 3/21) | |
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