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
Upcoming Shows
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...
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...
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...
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...
Past Shows
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 how she...
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...
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...
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...
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 by...
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’ 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 PurpleBy Alice WalkerBook by Marsha NormanMusic & Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis & Stephen BrayDirected by Daniel J. BryantA Co-Production with Theatre...
Newtown - WORLD PREMIEREBy Dan O’BrienDirected by Elizabeth WilliamsonThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater co-commissioned Dan O’Brien to write a play about the...
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