The Rochester Community Players (RCP), the oldest community theatre in New York State, 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, its first production, Wedding Bells, by Salisbury Field,Salisbury Fields' . opened January 19, 1925 at the German House on Rochester's Gregory Street.The German House, History page.
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
External links Highland Park Bowl (home of RCP's Shakespeare at the Bowl): Picture of the old Lyceum Theater: