Keybank Rochester Fringe Festival @ Home Announces Day Two Lineup
Each of the four, hour-long, live installments will feature nationally known guest artists plus a moderator discussing a specific topic.
Of the festival's 170+ virtual productions, more than 70 are free of charge, including a new, Fringe-curated conversation series called FringeTalk. Each of the four, hour-long, live installments will feature nationally known guest artists plus a moderator discussing a specific topic. Today's 8 PM program is: FringeTalk: Black Lives Matter & the Performing Arts. Hosted by beloved former Rochester TV anchor Norma Holland, the panel consists of Thomas Warfield (Dir. of Dance Dept., NTID/RIT), Karen "KB" Brown (Harlem Dance Theatre, Garth Fagan Dance), and Jason Nious (Molodi, Cirque du Soleil). A live, Q&A Zoom will follow each talk.
Also free are two, Rochester-based podcast episodes released yesterday by Nate DiMeo's Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Memory Palace. Commissioned by Fringe and made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, one is "High Falls," which debuted at 2019's On-Site Listening Experience at High Falls and tells the tale of famous falls-leaper Sam Patch. The other is a world premiere called "From a Parking Lot" about Rochester's revered Corinthian Hall, famous as the site of Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" speech. The since-demolished Hall stood at what is now a parking lot at the corner of State and Corinthian Streets, just a block north of Main Street. DiMeo has woven the murder of Daniel Prude into his transportive tale. Both episodes can be experienced 24/7 via Radiotopia, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Stitcher, as well as at rochesterfringe.com.
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'Equus' by Peter Shaffer Reid Castle Events (7/30-8/02) |
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Sister''s Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi''s Gold Shea's Smith Theatre (12/23-12/23) |
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NYSCA-Funded Performance in Buffalo: Bridging Acts (July 25, 2026) | 6:30-7:45pm Center for the Arts - University at Buffalo (7/25-7/25) |
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The Lion King Auditorium Theatre (4/28-5/16) |
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'Glam-Folk' Comes to HOMER, NY December 5th - Slambovian Circus of Dreams Center for the Arts of Homer (12/05-12/05) |
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Rent Shea's Smith Theatre (1/29-2/14) |
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The Golden Girls - The Lost Episodes Viii Shea's Smith Theatre (8/14-8/30) |
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Girl On An Altar Irish Classical Theatre Company (6/12-6/28) |
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Tony N'' Tina''s Wedding Shea's Smith Theatre (3/05-3/21) |
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Shana Falana and The Goddess Party™ returns with The Wedding TEMPO Performing Arts Center (7/31-8/01) |