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GEVA THEATRE CENTER


Rochester, NY

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As a not-for-profit organization with an annual operating budget of approximately $7.0 million, Geva employs approximately 200 people throughout the season and has an estimated overall economic impact on Rochester of more than $10 million. Geva has generated over $200 million in economic activity in the community since the organization was founded in 1972. Since its inception, over 5,636 actors, directors, musical directors, designers and stage managers have worked at Geva.

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OFC Creations to Conclude 23-24 Broadway in Brighton Series With THE PRODUCERS


by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 25, 2024

OFC Creations will conclude their 2023-2024 Broadway in Brighton series with Mel Brook's THE PRODUCERS. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets! ...

Rochester Fringe Festival Sets 2024 Dates


by Stephi Wild - January 31, 2024

The Rochester Fringe Festival, New York State's largest multidisciplinary performing arts festival, has announced September 10-21, 2024 as this year's festival dates. ...

Rochester's Left For Dead Improv Presents HOLIDAY HOOPLA At The Focus Theater 


by A.A. Cristi - December 18, 2023

Left for Dead Improv presents 'HOLIDAY HOOPLA' at the Focus Theater. Get ready for a night of laughter and holiday cheer with Rochester's favorite improv group. Don't miss this festive show!...

Geva Theatre Presents MR. PARENT A Deeply Felt And Hilarious Solo Performance, November 1-19


by A.A. Cristi - October 30, 2023

Geva Theatre presents Mr. Parent, a deeply felt and hilarious solo performance based on Maurice Emmanuel Parent's experiences as a teacher in the Boston Public School System. ...

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID: BROADWAY DIVA POWER BALLADS Comes Direct From Puerta Vallarta To Rochester Fringe


by A.A. Cristi - September 13, 2023

Nick Rogers will perform his cabaret That's What She Said: Broadway Diva Power Ballads at the 2023 Rochester Fringe Festival on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. at the School of the Arts Ensemble Theater...

RUSSIAN TROLL FARM: A WORKPLACE COMEDY Will Play Off-Broadway In January 2024


by A.A. Cristi - August 29, 2023

Sarah Gancher's Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy, which premiered at Geva Theatrethis past spring, will play Off-Broadway later this season at the Vineyard Theatre in New York City....

Geva Theatre Presents THE WIZARD OF OZ


by A.A. Cristi - July 24, 2023

Geva Theatre welcomes Rosé from RuPaul's Drag Race and Savy Jackson from Bad Cinderella on Broadway to Rochester for the opening production of the 23/24 Season, director Zi Alikhan's newly re-envisioned production of the classic musical The Wizard of Oz. ...

Review: AND SO WE WALKED: AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY ALONG THE TRAIL OF TEARS at Geva Theatre


by Colin Fleming-Stumpf - April 18, 2023

What did our critic think of AND SO WE WALKED: AN ARTIST'S JOURNEY ALONG THE TRAIL OF TEARS at Geva Theatre?...

Past Shows

Yoga Play
Yoga Play
5/10 - 6/5/2022


Geva Theatre Center presents Yoga Play by Dipika Guha and directed by Melissa Crespo.Corporate yoga giant Jojomon is at the pinnacle of its game when ...

The Chinese Lady
The Chinese Lady
4/20 - 5/8/2022


Geva Theatre Center presents the Kitchen Theatre Company production of "The Chinese Lady" by Lloyd Suh and directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy.In 1834, a 14-year-old ...

Somewhere Over the Border
Somewhere Over the Border
3/30 - 5/1/2022


Book, Music and Lyrics by Brian QuijadaDirected by Rebecca MartinezA World Premiere Co-production with Syracuse StageInspired by the real-life journey of the writers mother from ...

How to Catch Creation
How to Catch Creation
2/22 - 3/20/2022


A story that reverberates through generations, "How to Catch Creation" explores what makes a family, and what it means to find true fulfillment. In 2014, ...

Constellations
Constellations
2/2 - 2/20/2022


The high-concept romantic drama by Nick Payne starts with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. When they first meet, an infinite number ...

Airness
Airness
1/13 - 2/6/2022


When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be a breeze. But after meeting up with a group of lovable air ...

Aorness
1/11 - 2/6/2022

A Christmas Carol
11/24 - 12/24/2021


A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens' most well-known story, in which Ebenezer Scrooge is a wealthy curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth ...


Eight-year-old Christopher Rivas, a Dominican boy from Queens, is obsessed with James Bond. When he finds out the inspiration behind his hero was also Dominican, ...

SLOW FOOD
1/14 - 2/9/2020


The Nancy L. Donahue Theatre: Wendy MacLeod; dir: Sean Daniels....

Queen
11/7 - 11/24/2019


dir: Scottee ....

The Niceties
10/22 - 11/17/2019


Zoe, a Black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the ...

La Cage Aux Folles
9/3 - 10/6/2019


book: Harvey Fierstein; lyrics: Jerry Herman; music: Jerry Herman; dir: Melissa Rain Anderson....

Heartland
3/15 - 4/1/2018


Gabriel Jason Dean; dir: Pirronne Yousefzadeh. Fielding Stage:...

The Diary of Anne Frank
2/13 - 3/18/2018


adapt: Wendy Kesselman from Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett; dir: David Ira Goldstein. Elaine P. Wilson Stage:...

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End
1/25 - 2/11/2018


Allison Engel, Margaret Engel; dir: Michael Marotta....

The Other Josh Cohen
1/9 - 2/4/2018


book: Steve Rosen, David Rossmer; lyrics: Steve Rosen, David Rossmer; music: Steve Rosen, David Rossmer; dir: Hunter Foster. Elaine P. Wilson Stage:...


Mat Smart; dir: Logan Vaughn. World Premiere...

Smart People
10/5 - 10/22/2017


Lydia Diamond; dir: Summer L. Williams....

In The Heights
In The Heights
9/5 - 10/8/2017


In The Heights: In the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, a young storeowner watches the joys and heartbreaks of his tight-knit community as they pass ...

In the Heights
9/5 - 10/8/2017


book: Quiara Alegria Hudes; lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda; music: Lin-Manuel Miranda; dir: Melissa Rain Anderson....

Million Dollar Quartet
5/30 - 6/25/2017


The Tony® Award-nominated musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET is set on December 4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, ...

Other Than Honorable
4/25 - 5/21/2017


Jamie Pachino; dir: Kimberly Senior. World Premiere...

Sex With Strangers
4/13 - 4/30/2017


How far will you go to get what you want? Will you be the same person if you finally do? When star sex blogger and ...

Private Lives
3/21 - 4/16/2017


Private Lives opened at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rogers Theatre), where it ran for 92 performances. Private Lives is a 1930 comedy ...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2/14 - 3/12/2017


November 29, 2013–January 5, 2014 in the Fichandler Stage Broadway and Arena Stage favorite Kenny Leon (every tongue confess) returns to direct a new adaptation ...

The Lake Effect
2/2 - 2/19/2017


Rajiv Joseph; dir: Giovanna Sardelli....

Sylvia
1/10 - 2/5/2017


Greg and Kate have moved to Manhattan after twenty-two years of child-raising in the suburbs. Greg’s career as a financial trader is winding down, while ...

The Marvelous Wonderettes
12/8 - 12/24/2016


This smash Off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy: four girls ...

The Marvelous Wonderettes
12/8 - 12/24/2016


This smash Off-Broadway hit takes you to the 1958 Springfield High School prom, where we meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy: four girls ...

Mother (and me)
11/3 - 11/20/2016


Buckley Melinda....

Mother (and me)
11/3 - 11/20/2016


Buckley Melinda....


book: Larry Gelbart, Burt Shevelove; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Melissa Rain Anderson....


book: Larry Gelbart, Burt Shevelove; lyrics: Stephen Sondheim; music: Stephen Sondheim; dir: Melissa Rain Anderson....

The May Queen
5/3 - 5/29/2016


Molly Smith Metzler; dir: Amanda Charlton....

Dancing Lessons
4/14 - 5/1/2016


DANCING LESSONS centers on Ever, a young man with Asperger’s syndrome, who seeks the instruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive ...

A Moon for the Misbegotten
3/29 - 4/24/2016


Eugene O'Neill; dir: Ben Barnes....


Maripat Donovan....

To Kill a Mockingbird
2/16 - 3/20/2016


adapt: Christopher Sergel; dir: Mark Cuddy....

An Iliad
2/4 - 2/21/2016


On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...


Meet the Nowaks of Buffalo, NY. Clara and her three grown kids have always known they were special, ever since the miraculous Christmas Eve in ...

The Lion
11/11 - 11/22/2015


book: Benjamin Scheuer; lyrics: Benjamin Scheuer; music: Benjamin Scheuer; dir: Sean Daniels....

Red
10/20 - 11/15/2015


Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant—and the growing competitive presence of a new generation of artists—Rothko takes on his greatest career challenge yet: ...

Monty Python's Spamalot
9/9 - 10/11/2015


book: Eric Idle; lyrics: Eric Idle; music: John Du Prez, Eric Idle; dir: Melissa Rain Anderson....

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike


An irresistible, laugh-out-loud comedy and winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania ...

The Road to Where
4/23 - 5/10/2015


Morgan Cass; dir: Mark Cuddy....

True Home
True Home
4/30 - 5/10/2015


With the help of two talented musicians, Broadway veteran and writer Cass Morgan searches for her roots in True Home. A trip to the West ...

The Mountaintop
The Mountaintop
3/31 - 4/26/2015


A soul-stirring reimagining of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last night on earth. After delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted King retires ...

A Body of Water
A Body of Water
3/19 - 4/5/2015


A long-married couple wakes one beautiful morning in an idyllic summer house surrounded by lush lawn and a vast body of water. There’s only one ...

Women in Jeopardy!
Women in Jeopardy!
2/24 - 3/22/2015


Thelma and Louise meets The First Wives Club in this fun and flirtatious new comedy by Rochester-born playwright Wendy MacLeod. Divorcees Mary and Jo are ...


Nora Cole....

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
1/13 - 2/15/2015


A hapless skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation – and gets the girl of his dreams – when he discovers an exotic man-eating ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
11/26 - 12/27/2014


On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts who remind him who he was and what he might yet become. He learns ...

Til Death Do Us Part
Til Death Do Us Part
11/4 - 11/30/2014


After teaching countless students about the saints, venial sins, limbo and more, Colleen Moore returns as ‘Sister’ to offer up hilarious lessons on the Sacraments ...

Good People
Good People
10/21 - 11/16/2014


In South Boston, this month’s paychecks cover last month’s bills, bingo is a night on the town, and sharp-tongued single-mom Margie Walsh has been let ...

Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
9/9 - 10/5/2014


A Greenwich Village apartment becomes the setting of a suspenseful game of cat and mouse when a group of thuggish con men manipulate and terrorize ...

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee


A hilarious, Tony Award-winning musical that follows six over-achieving and awkward adolescents on their quest for the spelling championship of a lifetime. Overseen by grown-ups ...

Tinker to Evers to Chance
Tinker to Evers to Chance
5/15 - 6/1/2014


Play ball! Lauren makes a rare trip home to Chicago to take her ailing mother to the biggest Cubs game of the year, Game 6 ...

The Odd Couple
4/22 - 5/18/2014


One of Neil Simon’s most recognizable and timeless comedies. Fastidious Felix is thrown out by his wife. His only refuge is with best friend, Oscar, ...

I and You
4/10 - 4/27/2014


On the night before a class assignment is due, Caroline and Anthony plumb the mysteries of a Whitman poem…unaware that a deeper mystery has brought ...

Informed consent
3/18 - 4/13/2014


Ripped directly from the headlines. An ambitious geneticist faces ethical battles in both her professional and family worlds. Gillian is hired to help determine why ...

Stranded on Earth
3/6 - 3/23/2014


Ron and Donna Fielding Nextstage: Eric Coble; dir: William Brown....

Clybourne Park
2/11 - 3/9/2014


A wickedly funny and fiercely provocative play about the volatile combination of race and real estate. In 1959, a white couple sells their home to ...

Katherine’s Colored Lieutenant


Nora Cole (Fences, Voices of the Spirits in My Soul) digs deep into her family’s history to tell the story of her uncle, a Tuskegee ...

Black Pearl Sings!
1/23 - 2/9/2014


In 1935 Texas, Susannah, an academic and song collector for the Library of Congress, visits a high-security prison where she meets Pearl, an African-American woman ...

Last Gas
1/7 - 2/2/2014


Somewhere on a remote wooded road – not far from Almost, Maine – sits Nat Paradis’ “Last Gas Convenient Store.” As Nat sorts through life ...

A Christmas Carol
11/27 - 12/28/2013


On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by a series of ghosts who remind him who he was and what he might yet become. He learns ...


Just when you thought it was safe to go into the classroom… Sister is back! And so are the nun-stop laughs. With the blessings of ...

Alfred HitchC*CK's The 39 Steps
10/22 - 11/17/2013


Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage: adapt: Patrick Barlow; dir: Sean Daniels....

The 39 Steps
10/22 - 11/17/2013


Hitchcock meets hilarious as Englishman Richard Hannay encounters dastardly murders, double crossing secret agents and devastatingly beautiful women in this fast-paced whodunit. Part espionage thriller ...

Pump Boys and Dinettes
9/10 - 10/13/2013


Welcome to the Double Cupp Diner, way down on Highway 57 between Frog Level and Smyrna, where the cherry pie is fresh and served with ...

All Your Questions Answered
10/2 - 10/6/2013


Ron and Donna Fielding Nextstage: Greg Kotis; book: Greg Kotis; lyrics: Greg Kotis; music: Greg Kotis; dir: Sean Daniels....

A Midsummer Night's Dream
5/8 - 6/2/2013


Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage: - William Shakespeare; dir: Mark Cuddy, Skip Greer....

Venus in Fur
5/16 - 6/2/2013


Ron and Donna Fielding Nextstage: - David Ives....

The Whipping Man
4/2 - 4/28/2013


Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage: - Matthew Lopez; dir: Tim Ocel....

No Child...
4/4 - 4/21/2013


Ron and Donna Fielding Nextstage: - Nilaja Sun....

Bob
3/7 - 3/24/2013


Ron and Donna Fielding Nextstage: - Peter Nachtrieb; dir: Sean Daniels....

The Book Club Play
2/19 - 3/24/2013


Ana is a Type A personality living in a letter-perfect world: a husband who adores her, the perfect job, and her greatest passion, Book Club. ...

Next to Normal
1/8 - 2/10/2013


Elaine P. Wilson Mainstage: - book: Brian Yorkey; lyrics: Brian Yorkey; music: Tom Kitt; dir: Scott Schwartz....


In The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Daisey dives into the epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka whose personal obsessions profoundly affect ...

A Christmas Carol
11/25 - 12/24/2011

Dracula
10/11 - 11/13/2011

On Golden Pond
9/6 - 10/2/2011

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