Blackfriars Theatre Presents MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY Next Month
by Stephi Wild
- Nov 15, 2022
This holiday season, cozy up with Blackfriars Theatre (795 East Main Street, Rochester) for the infectiously delightful new classic, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Featuring all of your favorite Pride and Prejudice characters, the story picks up where the novel left off at the grand estate of newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Darcy.
The Company Theatre Presents RICHARD II
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 7, 2022
The banishment of beloved nobleman Henry Bolingbroke sets into motion a series of events that threaten to remove King Richard II of England from his throne in this retelling of Shakespeare's classic tale of power and corruption by Rochester's The Company Theatre.
SISTER ACT Comes to Redhouse Arts Center Next Month
by Stephi Wild
- Nov 15, 2021
The show will be directed by Newly Appointed Redhouse Artistic Director Temar Underwood with choreography by Stephfond Brunson. As the first show of the season and the first live experience, Redhouse looked to choose a show that was joyful, fun and celebratory with an eye towards diversity and inclusion.
BWW Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at Blackfriars Theatre
by Dan and Julie Izzo
- Feb 11, 2020
Lights up. Enter the whirlwind. Blackfriars Theatre's production of NEXT TO NORMAL drops its audience smack in the middle of an emotional storm. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical details a family's sixteen-year struggle with trauma, centering on bipolar disorder. Groundbreaking in style and scope, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's smash hit garnered eleven Tony nominations and won three. It has been celebrated for exploring hard-hitting subject matter without the dewy-eyed sentimentality that so often infects this theatrical genre. Fortunately, Blackfriars' production delivers with the power and grit of the original Broadway production.
Blackfriars Theatre Continues its 70th Anniversary Season with NEXT TO NORMAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 13, 2020
Blackfriars Theatre's 4th show of its 70th Anniversary Season shares the story of a family: 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 family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family's story with love, sympathy and heart.
BWW Review: INDECENT Comes to the JCC CenterStage
by Colin Fleming-Stumpf
- Apr 1, 2019
Indecent, currently playing at JCC's CenterStage Theatre, is one of the company's most ambitious productions to date because of its cultural significance, its significance in Jewish history, and the fact that this is its first time being staged in the Rochester area. And not unimportantly, it's also just a really entertaining piece of theatre.
Webster Theatre Guild's JEKYLL & HYDE Begins Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Sep 12, 2014
Take a journey into a captivating world of dark secrets with Frank Wildhorn, Steve Cuden, and Leslie Bricusse's gripping musical thriller Jekyll & Hyde at Webster Theatre Guild this fall! Intended for mature audiences, this evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart. Convinced the cure for his father's mental illness lies in the separation of Man's evil nature from his good, Dr. Henry Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of late 19th century London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde.
Webster Theatre Guild to Present JEKYLL & HYDE, Begin. 9/12
by Tyler Peterson
- Aug 13, 2014
Take a journey into a captivating world of dark secrets with Frank Wildhorn, Steve Cuden, and Leslie Bricusse's gripping musical thriller Jekyll & Hyde at Webster Theatre Guild this fall! Intended for mature audiences, this evocative tale of the epic battle between good and evil is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality create a murderous counterpart. Convinced the cure for his father's mental illness lies in the separation of Man's evil nature from his good, Dr. Henry Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of late 19th century London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde.
Photo Flash: First Look at The Shakespeare Players' MEASURE FOR MEASURE
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 11, 2013
Tomorrow night, Friday, April 12, The Shakespeare Players, a program of the Rochester Community Players, will open Measure For Measure. The show runs Friday thru Sunday this weekend, Thursday thru Sunday next weekend and Thursday thru Saturday April 25-27. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast below!
Blackfriars Theatre Announces MELANIE AND THE RECORD MAN Cast
by Kelsey Denette
- Jun 6, 2012
Blackfriars Theatre, a professional, not-for-profit theatre located on Rochester, NY's "Theatre Row" announces that casting has been completed for its first original production, "Melanie And The Record Man," to premiere October 19, 2012.
Blackfriars Theatre Presents THE WHO'S TOMMY, 4/23-5/14
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 23, 2011
Blackfriars Theatre, a not-for-profit mid -sized professional theatre on Rochester's 'Theatre Row' is pleased to announce the opening of 'Tommy,' by The Who (music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, with additional lyrics and music by John Entwistle and Keith Moon. Book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff.)
Blackfriars Theatre Presents THE WHO'S TOMMY, 4/23-5/14
by Kelsey Denette
- Apr 6, 2011
Blackfriars Theatre, a not-for-profit mid -sized professional theatre on Rochester's 'Theatre Row' is pleased to announce the opening of 'Tommy,' by The Who (music and lyrics by Pete Townshend, with additional lyrics and music by John Entwistle and Keith Moon. Book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff.)
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