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Alice By Heart

From the Tony® award-winning creators of Spring Awakening, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, and Waitress creator Jessie Nelson, Alice by Heart is a dark and touching musical entangled with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In the rubble of World War II’s London Blitz, Alice and her dying friend Alfred are forced to take shelter in an underground station. Alice by Heart explores the poignancy of first love, coming to terms with loss, and finding the courage to move forward. www.theatre444.com

Length: 90 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Theatre

Ask Me About My Dad

The death of a parent is never easy, and everyone's grief experience is unique. So when local broadcaster/comedian/storyteller Scott Fybush lost his father last year, he sought out comfort the way he knows best: by telling his stories. Bring a few tissues and a full heart for this touching and often funny show, which brings together several local storytellers who join Scott on stage to share their own stories of the dads they knew, loved and lost.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Spoken Word

Coldwater Blues

Coldwater Blues loves to perform live. The band is led by Myriah Marsh-Hall, whose four-octave vocal range and style pays homage to blues legends like Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, Koko Taylor, and The Tedeschi Trucks Band. Myriah is joined by Jim Rappleye (guitar), Chris Ott (keyboards), Steve Walters (bass), and Pete Steltmann (drums). Their energetic stage show celebrates the blues.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

Connect The Dots

From navigating his cultural identity as a Bukharian Jew, to figuring out why he dated a rabbi, Natan Badalov connects the dots of his past in this solo stand up comedy show. Making his Rochester Fringe debut, Natan Badalov has been seen on Adult Swim, New York Comedy Festival, as well as many others. For more info, check out his website www.natanbadalov.com as well as his socials at @natanbadalov.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Comedy

Connie Fredericks-Malone: Alone With My Music

Connie Fredericks-Malone returns to the Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage at the Rochester JCC. Fredericks-Malone performs songs made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Patsy Cline, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong and Nat Cole. “I fancy myself as a girl singer in a big band,” laughs Connie. She and musical director Scott Bradley set the arrangements and create fully orchestrated instrumental tracks that accompany Fredericks-Malone’s vocals.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

Daniel Cainer: Gefilte Fish & Chips

Enjoy stories in song from this award-winning Fringe favorite. Smart, funny, timely, and moving, Cainer’s beautiful songs are about all families and foibles. Cainer is a veteran of six Off-Broadway runs and 18 Edinburgh Fringes (Highly Recommended Show in 2014/15/17/18/22). "A gifted musician and an extraordinary performer. Heartbreakingly poignant, laugh-out-loud funny." —Ed Fest Guide. "You don’t have to be Jewish or British to get a kick out of Cainer’s shtick."—LA Times.

Length: 75 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

The Expat Comes Home: with David Kilimnick

The stand-up comedy show for anyone who has felt like an outsider: David Kilimnick moves to Israel to connect to his people. Twenty years later, he returns to America to connect to his family. Now David takes you on the comedic roller coaster of an immigrant's identity, both local and abroad, as he straddles his lives as an American in Israel and a Jew in America. Israel's "Father of Anglo Comedy" (JPost), David has been hailed by Israeli media as a "rising star" who possesses "Seinfeldian charm."

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Comedy

Helium Bubble

Rochester NY’s Helium Bubble aims to push the envelope of authentic, creative, and innovative expression. With sounds that coalesce emergent trends within jazz, alternative, funk and soul, the group dissolves boundaries with an eclectic ensemble. With Brother Wilson and Paul McArdle on guitars, Tommy Mintel on drums, Robbie Bently on bass, John Fossitt and Greg Woodsbie on keys, and Julia Weatherholtz on vocals, stay tuned for a sublime sound that rises beyond your typical sonic element.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

Identity: Screening + Q&A

Older generations have had to meld who they are with their experiences. In Identity, the cameras turn to Gen Z students who are coming to terms with how society views them given their identities, both visible and invisible, and how this informs what social, cultural, and racial issues they care deeply about. After the screening, listen to the panel of local students featured in the film who dive deeper into how their views have evolved and the change they hope to see in the world.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Visual Arts & Film

Indigo Breeze Band

The Indigo Breeze Sextet is a unique collaboration that performs straight-ahead jazz and jazz-influenced arrangements of familiar tunes from Latin musical traditions, R&B and pop standards. They receive high praise for their variety of selections, from gentle ballads to energetic sambas and swing, featuring songs from Chuck Mangione and Stevie Wonder to Santana and Louis Armstrong. Audiences say they have an invigorating experience of music that feels familiar, and at the same time brand new.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

A Jewish Woman Walks Into a Maloca

They say that one ayahuasca ceremony is like a year of therapy. On this eight-day retreat in Peru, Linda does four. Experience a middle-aged, New York Jewish woman’s journey into the jungle and back. The Company Theatre presents this one-person play, written by Hilary Bluestein-Lyons and performed by Erin Kate Howard. For more information: https://www.thecompanytheatreroc.org.

Length: 75 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Theatre

My Unauthorized Hallmark Movie Musical

Do you love rom-coms? Musicals? Sappy love stories that make you laugh and feel good? Come discover a writer who dreams herself awake and re-discovers romance in a nonconventional way. In this one-woman show supported by a cast of eight characters via multimedia, escape into her movie fantasy where men and women find courage and acceptance to speak their own voice without judgment. Frivolous, fractured, and fun musical moments take you on a ride of pure joy—where love always wins.

Length: 75 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Theatre

Róisín Dubh

Róisín Dubh (Ro-sheen dove: the Black Rose) is a favorite of Celtic music lovers in Rochester and far beyond. This unique school music program performs high-energy traditional music of Ireland in authentic traditional and contemporary styles. Since 2001, Róisín Dubh has performed more than 450 times, shared the stage with some of the world’s top Irish/Celtic musicians, and released five albums, with their music heard on NPR's famous Thistle & Shamrock.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

September Member and The Mad Lads

This Rochester quartet performs half-originals and half-covers, including works by Bob Marley, Talking Heads, The Grateful Dead, Phish, War, and Greyboy Allstars, as well as four YouTube originals: "Hey", "N.C. Jig", "Eben Flow", and "iambadvibe". Members include Kyle Veenema, guitar and vocal; Rabbit, bass and vocal; Corey Checho, drums; and Johnny Nukes, percussion and electronics.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

Shootin' Starz Fashion Showcase

Shootin' Starz is a production company that offers free modeling and acting classes to their community. Their program is curated to help individuals tap into their inner creativity and confidence through education and hands-on experience. This year you get to see the 2023 Shootin' Starz Models live in action, as they gear up to finish their final segment of the program. We look forward to bringing you the Shootin' Starz Fashion Showcase.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Multidisciplinary

The Stakeout

Fresh off a NYC Off-Broadway run, The Stakeout is a comedy/drama about two men on a stakeout of two men on a stakeout of them. A fresh, funny, and fearless head trip about fathers & sons. “5 STARS: Comedy & drama, magic & wonder in one of the best performances of the year.” –Edmonton Journal. “Biting humor & remarkably poignant”–Calgary Herald. “4.5 STARS: A phenomenal story told with impeccable cadence” –Winnipeg Free Press. Dockery has won 50 Best-of-Fest awards over 15 yrs of touring.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Theatre

Tap! Pop! Click! Patter! Shake!

A panel of culturally diverse percussive dancers will educate and entertain through the universal language of rhythm in motion. The panel is moderated by jazz tap dancer Cheryl Johnson, including discussions and performances by Laurie Coles–American rhythm tap; Daystar/Rosalie Jones–Native American intertribal dance; Karla Slack–Mexican zapateado; Eddie Murphy–Irish step; Parvatha Chidambaram of Bharata Natyam–S. Indian classical dance; and Mary Jo Spallina–Appalachian clogging.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Hart Theater
Genre: Dance

Vocal Point with The Yellow Jackets

Vocal Point is the University of Rochester's historically female, gender-inclusive a cappella group, founded in 1969. The YellowJackets are the University of Rochester's oldest and only all-male a cappella group, founded in 1956. Join both groups for an evening of a cappella at the Rochester Fringe Festival.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: Dawn Lipson Canalside Stage
Genre: Music

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