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Central New York Theatre Shows
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TALE: NYC's Finest Storytelling
TALE brings NYC's finest storytelling for the past 13 years, featuring performers from The Daily Show, HBO, Last Week Tonight, and Conan. Hosted by Harmon Leon, the lineup includes Kofi Thomas, Kendra Cunningham, Fabiana Mattedi, and Calvin Cato. Music by Andrew Cassese. The...
Anna Sperber: Bow Echo
A Bessie Award-winning dance originally created for a 15,000-square-foot rooftop in Brooklyn, transposed onto the land at Kaatsbaan. The performers and their sculptural instruments are placed in concert with the natural environment, with movement accumulating in visual and sonic...
Ballez: Travesty Doll Play (after Coppélia)
Based on the 1870 story ballet Coppelia, this choreographic reimagining by Ballez exposes the interdependent relationship between the Doll-maker and the Doll creations. The work highlights tenderness, perseverance, joy, and connection found in new life and relationships. It...
Calpulli Danza Mexicana: Native Mexico: Dances of the First Peoples
A lively celebration of prehispanic peoples, including the Mexika, Purepecha, Zapotec, Totonaca, Maya, Olmec, and Tolteca, and their dances. Filled with inspired stories and present-day resonance, the performance invites audiences to honor earth, spirit, and community through...
Nashville Day
Nashville Day takes place on August 29, 2026, at Sherman's Park, the historic lakeside venue that serves as the home of the Caroga Lake Music Festival. The event features Big Sky Country as part of the 15th annual festival, which spans genres from classical and jazz to Americana...
Native Mexico: Dances of the First Peoples
Calpulli Danza Mexicana presents an interactive performance honoring prehispanic civilizations including the Mexika, Purépecha, Zapotec, Totonaca, Maya, Olmec, and Tolteca peoples. Featuring traditional dances, garments, and stories, the program depicts rituals honoring the...
Valerie June: Concert
A rare jewel-box performance with singer-songwriter Valerie June, celebrating her new album Owls, Omens, and Oracles. Her music has been described as a necessary reminder that happiness is just as potent a tool for beating back the darkness as anger, according to Paste Magazine.
Completely Unchained: The Ultimate Van Halen Production
Completely Unchained: The Ultimate Van Halen Production brings the music of Van Halen to Sherman's Park as part of the 2026 Caroga Lake Music Festival. The show serves as one of the closing performances of the festival's 15th season, held at the historic lakeside pavilion in...
CRICKETS, opened by The Bearded Ladies
A concert and DJ dance party on the outdoor Meadow Stage featuring musicians Roddy Bottum, Michael O'Neill, and JD Samson performing punk-funk-electro-rant-queer-guitar-synthesizer-drum-machine music. The night opens with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret's AAAHHHHHH: A...
Playwrights' Platform, Program 1
Playwrights read and perform their own short plays in a newly created live anthology focused on boundary-bending storytelling. Program 1 features Six Nations: One Fire by Vickie Ramirez, Ty Defoe, and Jeanette Harrison, encyclopedia by Rachel Jendrzejewski, and Mx. Rogers'...
Playwrights' Platform, Program 2
A second program of playwrights reading and performing their own works, held indoors in the Black Box Theater. Features excerpts from I Leave Saint Cloud by Sylvan Oswald, a collage of early Yiddish Theatre presented by Jim Fletcher with Lori Goldston and Chloe Alexandra...
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash
The final production of the Depot Theatre's 2026 Main Stage season brings the extraordinary music of Johnny Cash to life with five actor-musicians and more than two dozen songs. The company features Hannah Taylor as Trenna, Tommy Bergeron as Jason, Joey Nuhfer as Mark, Matt...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company presents its 31st Woodstock Shakespeare Festival with a gritty, stylized Roaring 20s gangster-themed version of Shakespeare's early comedy. Directed by David Aston-Reese, the production moves from glittering jazz-age settings to underground...
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STISSING CENTER PRESENTS DAVID SIMPATICO'S PG-13 : AN EVENING OF SEVEN OUTRAGEOUS SHORT COMEDIES The Stissing Center presents a reading of PG-13 , an evening of seven wildly theatrical short comedies by award-winning playwright and librettist David Simpatico , to be presented in...
Jersey Boys
The show explores how four blue-collar guys — Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi — grew to become the singing sensation The Four Seasons.
Kaatsbaan 2026 Annual Festival
A three-Saturday festival featuring live music, dance performances, and community programming across Kaatsbaan's campus. Each Saturday offers a distinct lineup including artmaking workshops, performances on the outdoor Mountain Stage, and a Performance Lending Library of...
Sons of Grunge Brings the Sound of ’90s Grunge to Rochester for Matinee Show
Fans of ’90s grunge rock can experience the raw power and rebellious energy of the era when Sons of Grunge takes the stage at Photo City Music Hall on Saturday, September 12. The band is dedicated to resurrecting the iconic music of the ’90s, delivering passionate performances...
Woofstock: A Benefit for Fulton County Regional SPCA
Woofstock: A Benefit for Fulton County Regional SPCA is a fundraising event held at Sherman's Park during the 2026 Caroga Lake Music Festival season. The event supports the Fulton County Regional SPCA and is part of Caroga Arts Collective's broader mission of connecting music...
Happy Days
Bridge Street Theatre presents Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” one of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s most enduring and unforgettable works. Directed by Matthew Earnest, the play stars Roxanne Fay as Winnie and Steven Patterson as Willie. When the play begins, Winnie is...
How Did I Get Here?: Two One-Act Plays
This program pairs two one-act plays: Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Jane Shepard's Nine. Each features two actors placed in impossible situations. Both are directed by veteran CENTER artist Lisa Lynds, who explores what choice people have when life hands them one raw deal...
The Musical of Musicals: The Musical
The Musical of Musicals: The Musical runs September 4-13 at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, offering five musicals for the price of one. The show takes a single plot—a tenant who can't pay the rent—and reimagines it in the styles of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry...
A Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for Fifty-Six Minutes and Then Leaves
This Edinburgh Fringe Festival cult hit comes to Rochester Fringe for one performance only, scheduled for Thursday, September 17 at 9 p.m. in the Spiegeltent. The Edinburgh Evening News noted that the gorilla is obviously crucial to the event. Admission is free with seating on a...
B-Sides of Broadway: A Cabaret of Cut Songs
In the DNA of every iconic musical are the b-sides that were cut from the show. Join up-and-coming baritenor Connor McGuire for the world premiere of this intimate cabaret of songs that never made it to Broadway...and the stories behind them. Experience delightful deep cuts by...
Circus in the City
This free, outdoor spectacle is the first-ever large-scale collection of outdoor circus performances in Western New York, turning Rochester into a 'mini-Montreal' for the first weekend of Fringe. It runs at Parcel 5 from 5-10 p.m. and Gibbs Streets from 5-9 p.m. The event is...
Latest Central New York Reviews
Review: LETTER FROM MAX at The Ancram Center For The Arts Is a Summer Jewel Well Worth the Drive
Poetry, devotion, and a summer jewel well worth the drive at Ancram Center for the Arts. Letters from Max runs now through July 26 at the Ancram, NY venue.…
Review: THE SECRET GARDEN at MacHaydn Theatre Is a Force of Nature
THE SECRET GARDEN at MacHaydn Theatre is a force of nature. Get tickets to the final week of its run.…
Review: The Mac-Haydn’s 9 TO 5 Clocks In and Gets Even
Dolly Parton’s office revenge comedy makes a fast, funny, gratifying summer night in Chatham, New York. The production runs now through July 5.…
Review: The Addams Family at The Mac-Haydn Theatre Conjures a Ghoulishly Good Time
With the recent Rocky Horror revival reminding everyone how much fun the macabre can be, how lucky is Columbia County to have its own creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky night out right there at the Mac-Haydn? The production runs through 6/21.…
Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS at Proctors
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is dazzling audiences with extraordinary theatrics, creative visual concepts, and emotional moments. Adapted from the New York Times bestselling novel, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS has a book written by Rick Elice, and features a score by PigPen Theatre Co. …
Review: KINKY BOOTS at Proctors
KINKY BOOTS brought the fun to Proctors. This touring production is filled with many high points that captivate the audience. The story follows Charlie Price, who inherits his father’s shoe factory, which is on the brink of financial ruin. …
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Dogfight Theatre444 (8/21-8/29) |
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Just in Time Proctors Theatre (6/01-6/06) |
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OFC Creations Theatre Presents: The Osmonds: A New Musicals OFC Creations Theatre Center (4/08-4/25) |
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Come from Away Point of the Bluff Vineyards (4/17-10/24) |
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A Red, White & Blue Christmas Tri-Cities Opera (12/11-12/13) |
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The Orchestra Now Celebrates America’s 250th Anniversary at Jazz at Lincoln Center Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center (10/11-10/11) |
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SIX The Stanley (6/01-6/02) |
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Wicked Proctor's Theatre (11/05-11/05) |
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OFC Creations Theatre Presents: A Christmas Story: The Musical OFC Creations Theatre Center (12/17-1/03) |
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Hairspray! OFC Creations Theatre (9/24-10/11) |