Grab your garbage bags, pick up the recycling, and get ready to laugh and cheer as this repurposed circus turns trash into treasure! With the limitless spirit and can-do attitude of the circus, this cast reclaims and reanimates all that’s left in trash cans and littered in the garage to create a junkyard adventure like none other. Featuring a variety of unique and daring circus acts, including juggling, acrobats, high-flying aerialists and quirky clowns, the show is a testament to the power of community and teamwork. 

Mary Poppins flies to the Gates Chili stage March 21 -23, 2025! Join us for the classic tale where the Banks family have met their match with Mary Poppins. Throughout their magical journey of discovery, Mary guides them with firmness, love, and, of course, magic! Tickets are available starting March 1, 2025, at gateschili.org/tickets.

Brewster’s back after almost a decade and things have changed. Brews is proud of his success working for a large corporation, and wants to share it with the people of his Rez in Upstate New York. After all, it’s been a bad year, and Brews believes partnering with his corporation on a new bottled water factory would be a great opportunity for the Rez to create its own industry and sustain itself. But to his old love Connie, it’s a betrayal of everything the Haudenosaunee stand for. Who will win?

Performed at Stages --3rd floor of the West Herr Performing Arts Center. Based on the true story of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, Side Show is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary bondage brings them fame but denies them love. Told almost entirely in song, the show follows Violet and Daisy's progression from England to America, around the vaudeville circuit, and to Hollywood on the eve of their appearance in the 1932 movie Freaks.

Friday-Sunday March 21-23, 2025 at Stages' third-floor theater at the Auditorium: The Big One-Oh! Charley Maplewood has never been one for parties – that would require friends, which he doesn’t have. Well, unless you count his monster friends, but they’re only imaginary. But now that he’s turning ten—the big one-oh—he decides to throw a birthday party for himself, complete with a “House of Horrors” theme. Of course, things don’t work out as he plans. Will Charley be able to pull it together before the big one-oh . . . becomes the big OH-NO!? Performed by talented students in grades 1-5 from all over the Rochester area. Suitable for all ages but especially for those in preschool and early elementary school.

Performed at Stages - 3rd Floor of the West Herr Performing Arts Center. Bikini Bottom citizens discover that a volcano will soon erupt and destroy their humble home, so SpongeBob and his friends must come together to save the fate of their undersea world. Performed by students in grades 4 - 8. ​