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THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Music & Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, Additional Material by Jay Weiss Winner for the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical, this musical comedy follows six...

HEDWIG and the ANGRY INCH

Special thanks to our sponsor, Niagara Pride. Music & Lyrics by Stephen Trask Book by John Cameron Mitchell This groundbreaking Obie-winning Off-Broadway smash tells the story of "internationally ignored" rock goddess,...

THE NICETIES

THE NICETIES

By Eleanor Burgess In THE NICETIES by Eleanor Burgess, an accomplished Ivy League professor holds routine office hours with an ambitious young student to discuss her thesis: if history is written by the victors, who tells the story of the oppressed? Before long...

THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

Music & Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman, Additional Material by Jay Weiss Winner for the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical, this musical comedy follows six pre-teens as they compete to be Putnam...

THE COLOR PURPLE

THE COLOR PURPLE

Based on the novel by Alice Walker Directed by Sarah Norat-Philiips The Color Purple is a musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc...

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Stephen Sondheim's beloved cult classic, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG is seeing its regional premiere at the Shea's Smith! A fable about friendship told in reverse, MERRILY contains some of Sondheim's classic songs:...

THE BOWLING PLAY

THE BOWLING PLAY

"Good God, this is perfection!" Read Anthony Chase's Review HERE! By Kelly Copps SGT's second show of the season is a world premiere comedy developed in our free reading series! Pete is attractive, single, and on a blind date... in a bowling alley. Will his misfit...

tick,tick…BOOM!

tick,tick…BOOM!

BUFFALO NEWS REVIEW OF TICK,TICK...BOOM! By Jonathan Larson Jon is a promising composer living in NYC… but he’s almost 30 and what has he done? A fast-paced musical about being true to yourself and what “success” really means from the composer of RENT. Directed by...

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing

By Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe This one-man show is a beautiful and unique experience. The Narrator (Kevin Craig, AEA) takes the audience through his life and his on-going list of “every brilliant thing” there is to live for. A hilarious and heart-breaking...

The Secret Garden: Spring Version

The Secret Garden: Spring Version

Music by Lucy Simon, Book & Lyrics by Marsha Norman Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett An enchanting 90-minute retelling of the beloved 1911 novel, THE SECRET GARDEN is beautiful story of finding home and family where you least expect it. Directed...

Constellations

Constellations

By Nick Payne Roland and Marianne meet... and then meet again... and again. Each time the outcome changes slightly. CONSTELLATIONS examines every choice we make... and those we don't. Directed by Michael Gilbert-Wachowiak Kristin Bentley & Chris Avery (AEA) Photos...

Songs For a New World

Songs For a New World

Music & Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Second Generation Theatre (SGT) is delighted to welcome our audiences back into the Shea’s Smith with an in-person performance of  Jason Robert Brown’s musical SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. A song cycle full of love, loss, hope, and...

The Toxic Avenger

The Toxic Avenger

A Regional Premiere Musical Music & Lyrics by  Joe DiPietro and David Bryan Based on the 1984 cult classic film, this rock musical is a true underdog story set in the world’s most toxic waste dump… New Jersey. Starring SGT favorites Steve Copps and...

Nine

Nine

            Program is funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; administered by Arts Services Initiative of Western New York. Music &...