The Center has full seasons of programming, in addition to discussions based on plays and staged readings, and community outreach.

[4] Actors appearing at GeVa in the early years included Samuel L. Jackson (in A Raisin in the Sun), Scott Bakula, and Georgia Engel.

[5] World Premieres: Five Course Love by Gregg Coffin (2004); Splitting Infinity by Jamie Pachino (2006); Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, adapted by Mark Cuddy and Marge Betley (2008); The House in Hydesville by Dan O'Brien (2009); A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Mark Cuddy, original music & lyrics by Gregg Coffin (2010); Voices of the Spirits in My Soul by Nora Cole (2012); The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarias (2013); All Your Questions Answered by Greg Kotis (2013); Tinker to Evers to Chance by Mat Smart (2014); Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer (2014); Katherine's Colored Lieutenant by Nora Cole (2014); The Road to Where by Cass Morgan (2015); Women in Jeopardy by Wendy MacLeod (2015); Other Than Honorable by Jamie Pachino (2017); The Agitators by Mat Smart (2017); Heartland by Gabriel Jason Dean (2018); Hard Cell by Brent Askari (2019).

The newly-acquired building had been designed in 1868 by Rochester Architect Andrew J. Warner and was first occupied by the 54th Regiment of the New York State Militia.

It was also a cultural center for Rochester, with appearances by world renowned artists such as Anna Pavlova, Enrico Caruso, Fritz Kreisler, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Gustav Mahler, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Arturo Toscanini.

Featuring a newly freed black man and a Union deserter who have traveled North together, the play was set soon after the Civil War at a campground near Rochester.

[2][10] On 26 November 1985, the new facility was dedicated as the Richard Pine Theatre, in honor of a local developer who had arranged the financing that made Geva's move possible.

The 522-seat Wilson Stage is used for a wide variety of performances, including American and world classics, new plays, and musicals.