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Game Show! Game Show! Game Show!: A Games Show

September 13th at 3:00pm

WINNER of the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Award for Immersive and Games. In Game Show! Game Show! Game Show! a mischievous host pits one side of the audience against the other in a riveting showdown! Be ready to leave your seat and compete in over 40 games, from trivia and physical challenges to a custom built video game made just for this show. Charge your cell phones! Hailed by one audience member as "One of the best shows I've ever seen!" New games for 2025!

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: The Focus Theater
Genre: Multidisciplinary

Garth Fagan Dance

September 13th at 3:00pm

Garth Fagan Dance is thrilled to return to the Fringe with a 1-hour narrated performance featuring excerpts of new works and beloved revivals. Founded in 1970, GFD is western NY’s premier artist-led, predominantly Black cultural institution. Rooted in the Fagan Technique™, this unique movement vocabulary laid the foundation for The Lion King on Broadway. Now led by Bessie Award winners Norwood “PJ” Pennewell and Natalie Rogers-Cropper, the company remains a trailblazer in contemporary dance.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Garth Fagan Dance Studio
Genre: Dance

Katie Haverly Live

September 13th at 3:00pm

Katie Haverly is a singer-songwriter “alt-rock polymath” who creates a joyous mesh of soulful pop, jazz, folk, and rock in her intimate performances. Her music pierces the veil between 1960s-70s Laurel Canyon ingenuity and modern-day indie magic with a "spectacularly effortless-sounding voice that reaches all over the scale & explores all manner of sound." —Metroland. Haverly has opened for Macy Gray, Loudon Wainwright III and Chris Isaak, and is working on her 10th album here in Rochester.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Memorial Art Gallery: M&T Bank Ballroom
Genre: Music

Lunchador Podcast-a-Rama

September 13th at 3:00pm

Join the hosts of the Lunchador Podcast Network for a fun, fast-paced dive into the world of podcasting! Our hosts will be selected into a few different random panels and given a topic to improvise a short show on the spot. If you like funny, thought-provoking conversation about arts, culture, food, and all the great things Rochester has to offer, this is the show for you!

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: Central Library: Kate Gleason Auditorium
Genre: Comedy

AI Theatre Experiment

September 13th at 3:30pm

Can you tell the difference between human writing and AI? Join a theatre experiment that puts you to the test! The audience will be presented with three short staged readings, based on the same prompt. The twist? Two of the plays are written by humans and one by ChatGPT. Will you be able to tell which playwright was merely a machine?
The audience will vote on which scene they think was written by AI. The AI play will be revealed and one person who correctly guessed it wins a prize!

Length: 50 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: School of the Arts: Club SOTA
Genre: Theatre

The Goodness of Stepping Outside

September 13th at 3:30pm

Dancer Joanna Rodriguez and cellist Esther Baker explore where the lines are(n't) between dancer & musician through humorous, thought-provoking and interdisciplinary works which spring from community and audience members’ answers to the question “What is goodness to you?” The result is a joyful, inspiring and truly collaborative performance between two people from different backgrounds & disciplines showing that it is possible to be different and together.

Length: 45 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: The Rose Room
Genre: Dance

Here's To Life: Pictures, Stories, Songs, Dances - Thomas Warfield

September 13th at 3:30pm

How do we become who we are? The wonder, challenges, despairs, triumphs, people, places. The moments and memories define our experience, and experience gives us meaning and purpose to become what we're capable of being. My journey has taken me to live in different cities around the world, work in diverse cultural environments and navigate between the realities and my dreaming. Through spoken word, music, dance and pictures—this is my story.

Length: 75 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: The Little Theatre: Theatre 1
Genre: Multidisciplinary

An Immigrant's Guide to America

September 13th at 3:30pm

A renowned scholar is forced to test his own intercultural theories in real life when he immigrates to the United States. Can he survive in the wild among the mysterious species he studied—Americans? The awkward professor goes through painful culture shock and endless missteps before fully assimilating into American society. In this humorous solo show, award-winning author and performer Sufian Zhemukhov will have audiences reevaluate what they thought they knew about Americans.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: CenterStage Theatre at the JCC: JCC Ballroom Stage
Genre: Comedy

The Lost World Bemshi!

September 13th at 3:30pm

Step into the shadows of a prehistoric jungle where science and myth collide! The Lost World Bemshi! reimagines the groundbreaking 1925 silent film as a bold new spectacle—an electrifying fusion of cinema, live performance, and music. An event that unites the past and present, the silent and the spoken, the real and the impossible. Come see the jungle come alive. Dinosaurs roar, ghosts flicker, and the past awakens...feel the wonder, face the unknown!

Length: 58 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: MuCCC
Genre: Multidisciplinary

Noise in Neon—The Mandela Effect

September 13th at 3:30pm

Black lights, music, and a story? Noise In Neon—The Mandela Effect is a one-person music and storytelling show of the tale of Janus, a woman who wakes up to find her world completely changed following a solar eclipse. Can she return to the timeline she’s meant to be in? Featuring music ranging from rock to electronic dance, Rochester DJ and musician Rachel “Raye Black” Ratcliff narrates and performs a one-of-a-kind show that blurs the lines between concert, theatre, and reality itself.

Length: 30 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: Photo City Music Hall: Photo City Music Hall - Front Stage
Genre: Multidisciplinary

Port-a-Globe Punch and Judy

September 13th at 3:30pm

It’s the story of a very silly man named Punch, his clever wife Judy, and the Baby. Add to the mix the Crocodile, the Policeman, the Queen Bee who wants her honey back, the Doctor, a string of sausages, and a few other surprises, and you have what has become the most famous puppet show in the western world. Come see why it was described last year as "one of the best options for kids at the 2024 Fringe Festival” by City Magazine! No matter your age, this show is guaranteed to make you laugh.

Length: 30 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: School of the Arts: Commons
Genre: Kids Fringe

Oz

September 13th at 4:00pm

Oz is a Wizard of Oz parody magic show good for the whole family! Join Las Vegas magician Jordan Rooks' return for a new take on a classic tale. 0z tells the story of a magician coming into Oz and trying to persuade the wicked witches and the people of Oz that he is a true wizard. Award winning magician Jordan Rooks sold out at Edinburgh and Edmonton Fringe festivals in 2024, and now returns to Rochester for an all new adventure. High energy, all ages, lots of audience participation!

Length: 45 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: School of the Arts: Allen Main Stage Theatre
Genre: Comedy

EcoVibes–Unfolding Our Future

September 13th at 4:00pm

Join as we co-create the possibilities of community response to the climate crisis. We’ll lead you through interdisciplinary artistic creations exploring the changing climate in our region through dance, music, visual art, and participatory creativity. Artists reflect on love for what may be lost and reimagine new ways forward through radical joy. Come away from the festivities refreshed with possibilities.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: Washington Square Park
Genre: Multidisciplinary

The Emmett Hughes Band

September 13th at 4:00pm

The Emmett Hughes Band is an original indie rock group from Long Island. We incorporate indie rock, reggae, ska, funk, and blues. The grooves are inspiring, the lyrics are deeply personal and accessible, and the melodies are catchy. We are multi-dimensional, switching styles and rhythms with ease. Our band mates are a tight knit group with many years of experience performing mostly in the northeastern United States as well as the UK.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Memorial Art Gallery: Sculpture Park Outdoor Tent
Genre: Music

Le Cirque des Sensation

September 13th at 4:00pm

Through the red-and-white striped tents lies a distinctively unique experience. A feast for the senses, a thrill for the mind, and a journey for the heart, Le Cirque des Sensation is an immersive theatrical production, featuring dramatic drops, spectacular spins and daring physical theatre. Following the story of someone brave enough to run away and join the circus. Arrive 45 minutes in advance to enjoy games and festivities! Directed by Natalie Marino and produced by Aerial Arts of Rochester.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Aerial Arts of Rochester: Aerial Arena
Genre: Multidisciplinary

SOTA Cabaret

September 13th at 4:00pm

Come enjoy an afternoon of song, performed by students from School of the Arts of the Rochester City School District. High school students selected for their talent and skill will be performing a vocal cabaret as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival. Pop, rock, musical theatre, and everything in between. These naturally gifted students will blow your socks off!

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: School of the Arts: Ensemble Theatre
Genre: Music

TRACES

September 13th at 4:00pm

The acclaimed Théâtre de L’Entrouvert will take Fringe spectators and a diverse cross section of the Rochester community on an unforgettable journey in this U.S. premiere tour. Ice puppeteer Elise Vigneron leads a spellbinding public conversation of sculpture, sound, and movement to tell a unique story of humanity in each location.Vigneron’s work has been featured in shows from the Seoul Performing Art Festival to the World Festival of Puppet Theatres in Charleville-Mézières, France.

Length: 30 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: Spiegelgarden
Genre: Multidisciplinary

Widow

September 13th at 4:00pm

How do you mourn the love of a lifetime lost? And is it possible to share the experience while caught in grief's riptide? Cup-A-Jo Productions founder and artistic director Joanna Lowe stands on the epicenter of heartbreak in this deeply personal, autobiographical one-woman show. Through an absorbing and thoughtful mix of theatre, storytelling, and poetry, she reflects on love, loss…and what comes after.

Length: 45 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Memorial Art Gallery: Bausch & Lomb Parlor
Genre: Theatre

The Beginning After An End: The Rebirth

September 13th at 4:15pm

Come experience a story told through dance about unbecoming to become. A story about finding oneself. Alondra Green is a movement artist from Syracuse, New York, who is dedicated to exploring how dance can heal the physical, mental and emotional body. The Beginning After An End: The Rebirth is how she used dance to heal herself. The show highlights contemporary, modern, hiphop and krump dance. In collaboration with TruKrump Collective dancers and music producer BravoDom, her story is told.

Length: 45 Minutes
Tickets: Required
Venue: Photo City Music Hall: Photo City Music Hall
Genre: Dance

Forest Music

September 13th at 4:30pm

Experience the magic of live music in Rochester’s only old-growth forest. Forest Music features a series of instrumental performances along the trails of Washington Grove, creating an immersive soundscape that encourages exploration and reflection. This free event supports Friends of Washington Grove through optional donations and community engagement.

Length: 60 Minutes
Tickets: Not Required
Venue: Washington Grove
Genre: Music

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