134 Brighton Ave, Rochester, PA 15074

ABOUT
​THE SEGRIFF STAGE
Home to R-ACT Theatre Productions
July 2022-Present

The Segriff Stage is an intimate 50-seat black box theater located on Brighton Avenue in Rochester in Beaver County, PA.  It's named after the late Bob Segriff who founded R-ACT Theatre Productions in 1992.  The Segriff Stage has been the performance space for R-ACT since the summer of 2022.  It is owned and sponsored by Brighton First.

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SEGRIFF STAGE ACCESSIBILITY

SEATING

The Segriff has six (6) ADA seats in the front row that are removable for wheelchairs.  Patrons with walkers may give their walker to a Front of House volunteer to store during the show.  Patrons with mobility issues are encouraged to select ADA seating when purchasing tickets. 

Seats in Rows A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are on risers. Patrons with no mobility issues should purchase seating in Rows A-H and leave ADA seats for those who need them.

ENTRANCES

​The front entrance of the theater is wheelchair accessible.  There is no step or stoop at the front of the building.  

The back entrance of the theater is our artist entrance. The entrance opens into our Green Room and backstage area. It is not wheelchair accessible as there is a step down from the outside into the Green Room.  The stage is accessed by four (4) steps down from the Green Room.

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Segriff Stage Exterior

Looking to rent the Segriff Stage?

The Segriff Stage is owned and sponsored by Brighton First.  R-ACT does not own the space and does not have permission to loan, rent, or sublet the space to others.  R-ACT does not have any information about renting or using the Segriff Stage.  R-ACT will not facilitate contact between a potential renter and Brighton First.  To inquire about using the Segriff Stage, please contact Brighton First directly.

Segriff Stage Interior

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R-ACT SHOWS AT THE SEGRIFF STAGE 2022-present

Have you see one of our shows at the Segriff Stage?  If you haven't, please come join us in our intimate theater.  If you have, we hope you'll return for future shows!  The slideshow below shows the creative ways we've staged plays in this unique performance space.

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The Road to the Segriff
The history of R-ACT's performances venues

For most of its history, R-ACT has been a vagabond troupe.  Like vaudeville actors of yore, R-ACT performed wherever a playing space was available.  

At its inception in 1992, R-ACT performed in the Rochester High School auditorium.  R-ACT founder, Bob Segriff, was the school's guidance counselor and had made an arrangement with the school district.  In 1995 new school officials severed the arrangement with the community theater.  Bob Segriff passed away that same year.

R-ACT began bouncing from venue to venue, performing at the Rochester Volunteer Fire Department, Armando's, the Blue Violet Cafe, the former Docker's restaurant in Bridgewater, New Brighton High School, and the Community College of Beaver County.  They rehearsed and stored their things in the ground floor of Bridgewater's Masonic Building from 1996-2013. 

In 1999, R-ACT began performing live holiday radio plays every December at the Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton, PA.  They carried on this partnership until 2019 when the Merrick came under new management.  The annual holiday radio show continues to this day, now housed at the Segriff Stage.

The Venue at Harmony Ridge in Ambridge began hosting R-ACT's interactive Spinnenweber murder mysteries in 2011 and continued hosting until R-ACT made its way back home to Rochester in late 2013.

From 2013-2018 R-ACT lived in The Avenue Theater (formerly the Blue Violet Cafe) on Brighton Ave in Rochester.  Their office, storage, and rehearsals were housed on the second floor and they performed in the theater on the first floor. R-ACT performed 27 shows at The Avenue Theater before the landlord sold the building and the new owner repurposed the space.

After the building was sold to an antique shop, the group begin traveling again in April of 2018.  From 2018 to 2020 they performed eight plays on the road in venues like Grace Lutheran Church, Robert Morris University, Rochester High School, the Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton, and the Rochester Borough Theater (now named the Sandy Reigel Theater).  During this time they partnered with Brighton First to renovate a space further down the street on Brighton Avenue that would eventually become the Segriff Stage.  

R-ACT's stage was dark for 2020 and 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  When R-ACT returned in July 2022, they performed in their new permanent home, the Segriff Stage on Brighton Avenue. 

One month after the Segriff's inaugural production, the former Avenue Theater caught fire and had to be demolished.

2026 will mark R-ACT's fifth (5th) season at the Segriff Stage.

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