Geva Theatre Center is committed to making the theatre experience accessible to all by providing the following accommodations:

Wheelchair seating and accessibility

Geva Theatre Center’s Mainstage, Nextstage and restrooms are accessible to patrons who use wheelchairs, scooters, and walkers. If you require wheelchair accessible seating, please inform the box office when you reserve tickets. Please note that balcony level seating in our Mainstage is not accessible.

Services for patrons who are blind or visually impaired

The third Sunday matinee performance of every Mainstage production is Audio-Described by a live narrator for patrons who are blind or visually impaired. The pre-performance description of sets and costumes begins after Prologue, at approximately 20 minutes prior to curtain, and visual details are verbalized during the performance. Check the Audio-Description schedule here.

Audio-description receivers and Braille programs are available in the lobby. A major credit card or form of ID is collected as a security deposit for the receiver, and patrons may keep the Braille programs.

If you will be bringing your guide dog to the theatre, please inform the box office and request an aisle or front row seat so that we can make appropriate seating accommodations.

Services for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing

Assistive Listening devices are available for our audience members who are hard of hearing. Headsets may be obtained prior to performance time at the coat check. A major credit card or form of ID is collected as a security deposit.

Geva’s New Assistive Listening System is sponsored by the Hearing Loss Association of America - Rochester Chapter, J. Stuart & Phyllis I. MacDonald, and the Hearing Clarity Fund

A Sign Language-Interpreted performance is offered for every Mainstage production. Be sure to mention your interest in sign-interpretation when reserving tickets, or select the house right section of the orchestra in the Mainstage, in order to get the most advantageous seating. Prologue, the informative talk which is given before every performance, will be interpreted on the Sign-Interpreted dates. Check the Sign-Interpretation schedule here.

A Open Captioning for patrons with hearing loss is provided during the 1st Saturday matinee of each Mainstage production. (the 1st Sunday matinee for A Christmas Carol). When booking your seats, mention your interest in open-captioning in order to get the most advantageous view of the display.

Open captioning is being provided, in part, by a grant from Theatre Development Fund's TAP Plus program in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts.

Sign-Interpretation Dates for 2012-2013

Mainstage

• You Can't Take it With You

  October 4, 7:30pm

• Freud's Last Session

  November 8, 7:30pm

• A Christmas Carol

  December 20, 7pm

• Next to Normal

  January 31, 7:30pm

• The Book Club Play

  March 14, 7:30pm

• The Whipping Man

  April 25, 7:30

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

  May 30, 7:30pm

Audio-Description Dates for 2012-2013