Blackfriars Theatre presents “DOT,” Colman Domingo’s sweet and sour holiday play about family dynamics.
Arts & Entertainment
Theater Review | ‘A Christmas Carol’
Geva Theatre’s annual holiday favorite gets a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present.
Building a new arts and culture vision
Aided by a Columbus-based firm and an artist engagement team, the City of Rochester and Monroe County look to the community to reimagine the future of funding and opportunities.
Theater Review | ‘Mamma Mia!’
The ABBA-centric musical remains ebullient as ever, 25 years after its premiere.
After 46 years, VSW will move to a new home in a new neighborhood
Visual Studies Workshop will relocate from its 31 Prince Street building, where it has been based since 1978, to 36 King Street in the Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood.
Theater Review | ‘The Summer Land’
The world premiere from playwright Kate Royal offers an inspired answer to “why here, why now?”
Theater Review | ‘POTUS’
Just in time for Election Night, Blackfriars stages Selina Fillinger’s zany take on sexist incompetence in the Oval Office.
Theater Review | ‘The Brides of Dracula’
Penfield Players stages a Sapphic remix of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire tale through Nov. 9.
Theater Review | ‘How I Learned What I Learned’
The one-man show both honors and humanizes one of America’s greatest playwrights.
Rapping with the dead
“The Summer Land,” a new play, examines Rochester as the hub of the Spiritualist movement of the 1840s.
A downtown nightclub gets kinky
The Tony Award-winning musical “Kinky Boots” takes centerstage at ROAR October 13-29.
Theater Review | ‘Young Frankenstein’
The irreverent Transylvanian romp from Mel Brooks runs through Oct. 27 at Geva Theatre Center.






