Producing Director Christopher F. Kawolsky ’85 reopened the Downstairs Cabaret Theater in February 1992 (after three years of inactivity). Since then, we have produced nearly 300 different productions, ranging from popular musicals such as I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, to the hilarious Run For Your Wife, to the Holocaust drama The Grey Zone, to the world premiere of James Lecesne’s Word of Mouth(which went on to win Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards when later produced by Mike Nichols in NYC), to cabaret artists including Jim Van Slyke, Terese Genecco, KT Sullivan, Mark Nadler, Laura Theodore, D.C. Anderson, Quinn Lemley, and others. In recent years, Downstairs Cabaret Theater has exploded onto the theatrical scene producing some of the most exciting new works as well as the most entertaining pieces in Rochester.

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