22/23 SHOWS & TICKETS
SHOWS & TICKETS
23/24 Shows & Tickets
23/24 Season Add-ons
24/25 Season Subscriptions
24/25 Season Add-ons
Punchbowl Comedy Series
Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis
Hourglass Play Reading Series
22/23 SHOWS & TICKETS
SHOWS & TICKETS
23/24 Shows & Tickets
23/24 Season Add-ons
24/25 Season Subscriptions
24/25 Season Add-ons
Punchbowl Comedy Series
Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis
Hourglass Play Reading Series
23-24 Season & Subscriptions Home Page
23-24 SUBSCRIPTIONS
& SEASON TICKETS
23-24 Season & Subscriptions Home Page
23-24 SUBSCRIPTIONS
& SEASON TICKETS
SUBSCRIBE NOW!
There are TWO ways to create your 23-24 Season at Blackfriars:
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.”
6-Show Seated Season (CLOSED) - choose your seats before everyone else, get immediate discounts on the summer production and our Season Soiree! And save up to 23% — that means one season show is free!
Flex Passes - choose a 3 or 4 pack of tickets to be used for any show(s) in any way you'd like—get the most flexibility and a savings of up to 18%!
Choose the title below to purchase individual tickets to productions in THE 2023-2024 Season!
CLUE: ON STAGE by Sandy Rustin, adapted from the Paramount Pictures film by Jonathan Lynn
SEPTEMBER 8-24, 2023
JOHN & JEN music by Andrew Lippa, lyrics by Tom Greenwald, book by Andrew Lippa & Tom Greenwald
OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 5, 2023
THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY by Lauren Gunderson & Margot Melcon
DECEMBER 8-30, 2023
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES by Christopher Hampton, adapted from the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 11, 2024
MALA by Melinda Lopez
MARCH 22-APRIL 5, 2024
CABARET music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff
MAY 10-26, 2024
The 2023-2024 Season is sponsored by:
Season Add-ons
SEASON ADD-ONS
Season Add-ons
SEASON ADD-ONS
23-24 SEASON ADD-ONS!
Six exciting events in addition to your six season series (‘23-’24 subscribers enjoy exclusive discounts on tickets to add-on events):
GODSPELL music by Stephen Schwartz, book by John-Michael Tebelak | JULY 28-AUGUST 6, 2023
BT’S NYE MUSICAL MAYHEM | DECEMBER 31, 2023
LA REINE: QUEENS OF STAGE & SCREEN | OCTOBER 21, 2023
DIVAS & DANCE | FEBRUARY 14, 2024
9th ANNUAL SEASON SOIREE | NOVEMBER 11, 2023
DREAMGIRLS | MAY 31, 2024 & JUNE 1, 2024
24-25 Season & Subscriptions Home Page
24-25 SUBSCRIPTIONS
& TICKETS
24-25 Season & Subscriptions Home Page
24-25 SUBSCRIPTIONS
& TICKETS
SUBSCRIBE NOW!
There are TWO ways to create your subscription for the 75th Anniversary Season at Blackfriars:
“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.”
6-Show Seated Season - Save up to 20% on tickets to our six season productions, choose your seats before everyone else, and enjoy exclusive discounts on the summer production, BT Concert Series events and our Season Soiree!
Flex Passes - choose a 3 or 4 pack of tickets to be used for any show(s) in any way you'd like—get the most flexibility and a savings of up to 18%!
SELECT the titleS below to LEARN ABOUT EACH production in THE 2024-2025 Season! SINGLE TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE BEGINNING JULY 1, 2024.
SWEENEY TODD music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler
SEPTEMBER 6-22, 2024
POTUS, OR BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE by Selina Fillinger
OCTOBER 24-NOVEMBER 3, 2024
DOT by Colman Domingo
DECEMBER 13-29, 2024
THE MOUSETRAP by Agatha Christie
JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 16, 2025
EVERY BRILLIANT THING by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
MARCH 20-30, 2025
THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE OF HOWARD BARNES music by Michael Kooman, books & lyrics by Christopher Dimond
MAY 9-25, 2025
24-25 Season Add-ons
24-25 SEASON ADD-ONS
24-25 Season Add-ons
24-25 SEASON ADD-ONS
24-25 SEASON ADD-ONS!
Six exciting events in addition to your six season series (‘24-’25 subscribers enjoy exclusive discounts on tickets to add-on events):
BLACKFRIARS PUNCHBOWL | APRIL 12, 2024
BT’S NYE MUSICAL MAYHEM | DECEMBER 31, 2024
BTSI 2024: RENT | JULY 19-28, 2024
DIVAS & DANCE | MARCH 14, 2025
10th ANNUAL SEASON SOIREE | NOVEMBER 16, 2024
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA | MAY 30 & 31, 2025
Blackfriars Comedy Series
BLACKFRIARS COMEDY SERIES
Blackfriars Comedy Series
BLACKFRIARS COMEDY SERIES
Blackfriars Punchbowl:
Comedy on the ROCs
Join us for a night of laughs, featuring all your favorite Rochester comedy improv & sketch groups, plus a little stand-up! Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and house opens at 6:30 p.m. We'll have concessions and adult beverages available for purchase! The show will run roughly 2 hours with a short intermission and feature:
- ANTS TO GODS (improv)
- Alex Mallory (stand-up)
- Unleashed! (improv)
- Thank You Kiss (sketch)
- BUSHWHACKED (IMPROV)
We can all use a good laugh ... so come get your laughs with Blackfriars!
Imagination Station Show Page
Imagination Station
Imagination Station Show Page
Imagination Station
Teaser Trailer for Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis.
Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis… LIVE!
MKD is officially back at Blackfriars Theatre with the long-awaited return of our free, family-friendly Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis live events!
Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis is a free, family-friendly program featuring inclusive children’s stories read by RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Mrs. Kasha Davis. Performed on stage at Blackfriars Theatre, each event includes a story, original music, a dance party and a themed craft activity. Imagination Station teaches love and acceptance, encourages kids of all ages to live authentically, and celebrates the beauty of how kindness and diversity can change the world! Imagination Station is a program of Blackfriars Theatre and takes place at the theatre.
NEXT LIVE SHOW:
SATURDAY, MAY 11TH AT 10AM
Live shows are sponsored by:
AS A TV SHOW: As Mrs. Kasha Davis says during Imagination Station events, we have to reach for our dreams, hold them in our hearts, and then work really hard to make them come true. Our team is currently hard at work to make our biggest dream come true… transforming our live theatrical events into a children’s television show! Working with our partner, Fish & Crown Creative, we filmed a four episode season of ISwMKD in August 2021 and now we’re currently in the process of shopping it to major networks and streaming services with the goal of spreading our message of love, kindness and authenticity to a global audience!
WITH LEAD SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT FROM:
WITH ADDITOINAL SPONSORSHIP SUPPORT FROM:
Hourglass Play Reading Series
HOURGLASS PLAY READING SERIES
Hourglass Play Reading Series
HOURGLASS PLAY READING SERIES
ANNOUNCING:
THE 23/24 HOURGLASS SEASON!
A GOOD FARMER
by sharyn rothstein
November 18th, 2:00 p.m.
Directed by Maria Scipione
A moving drama, laced with humor and heartache, A Good Farmer is the story of two women—a farm owner and her unlikely best friend, an undocumented Mexican immigrant—fighting to survive in a small town divided by America’s immigration battle. A Good Farmer is a play about love, friendship and finding the power to face what divides us.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DIGITAL PLAYBILL!
GLORIA
by brandon jacobs jenkins
February 3rd, 2:00 p.m.
Directed by Jason Rugg
This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.
Click here to download the digital playbill!
NSFW
by lucy kirkwood
March 30th, 2:00 p.m.
Directed by Ashley Garcell
NSFW draws us into the opposing worlds of two lifestyle magazines in 2012, where the culture of exploitation and invasion of privacy are overtly, and sometimes hilariously, deplorable. Set in the offices of Doghouse magazine, a men’s mag where the boys are behaving badly, and Electra, a women's mag where the girls are having a whale of a time, NSFW is a sharp, yet disturbing, comedy about power games, privacy, and the objectification of women in the age of Photoshop. This deliciously witty play ultimately leaves us questioning how much progress our culture has made since.
THE RIPPLE, THE WAVE THAT CARRIED ME HOME
BY CHRISTINA ANDERSON
May 18th, 2:00 p.m.
Directed by Kat Rina Davis
A poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy, and family forgiveness. Janice’s childhood was steeped in her parents’ activism as they fought for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas and taught scores of Black children to swim. But Janice later steps away from her parents’ politics and starts her own life and family far away—until she’s pressed into speaking at a ceremony honoring her father and forced to confront a reckoning with her political inheritance.
The Hourglass Play Reading Series productions are FREE with suggested donations accepted at the door. Reservations are strongly encouraged. For more information about the Hourglass Play Reading Series, email Hourglass@blackfriars.org.
A free play reading series with Blackfriars Theatre
Hourglass Play Reading Series is an official program of Blackfriars Theatre. Founded in 2010 by Sandi Henschel, Barbara Lobb and Maria Scipione, HPRS strives to present readings of thought-provoking plays that explore culturally relevant themes and give voice to diverse stories. We practice color and gender conscious casting and strive to create an inclusive theatrical community where all actors feel welcome and valued. Leading the team for the 2023-2024 Season are Co-Artistic Directors Jodi Beckwith and Eric Evans.
All readings are cast through an audition process.
Director submissions can be made by emailing info@blackfriars.org. Please include resume/cover letter with your submission.