Rochester Community Players

The Rochester Community Players (RCP), the oldest community theatre in New York State,[1] is a local theater group in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in the United States.

History

The Rochester Community Players has produced over 600 plays since 1925.

Incorporated in 1923,[2] its first production, Wedding Bells, by Salisbury Field,[3] opened January 19, 1925 at the German House on Rochester's Gregory Street.[4]

By the early 1970s RCP receded as other community theater organizations in Rochester began producing and attracting significant audiences. A regional equity professional theater, Geva Theatre Center, was founded in 1972, and over a period of years community members who might have been members of the RCP Board in an earlier era were drawn to Geva instead.

References

  1. ↑ Greater Rochester Visitors Association, Inc. "Fun Facts from Rochester, NY: Actors & Actresses". Archived from the original on 2007-01-01.
  2. ↑ Rochester Community Players History. "83 years; 620 productions". Archived from the original on October 7, 2007. Sources: For extensive newspaper articles about RCP, see the Rochester Times Union June 7, 1960; Rochester Democrat & Chronicle January 3, 1965; Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, page 1H, Feb. 10, 1974; Bound volumes of all RCP playbills from 1925 to 1972 are in storage at the Local History Department of the Rochester Public Library.
  3. ↑ Salisbury Fields' ​Wedding Bells​ at the Internet Broadway Database.
  4. ↑ The German House, History page.
  • Highland Park Bowl (home of RCP's Shakespeare at the Bowl):
  • Picture of the old Lyceum Theater:
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