ROGUE revolves around a morally and emotionally conflicted cop, Grace (Newton), who is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son
Rogue Theater Festival Opens Submissions for Its Eighth Season in NYC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 02, 2026
Rogue Theater Festival has opened submissions for its Eighth Season Festival, a two-week celebration of storytelling and community. What started as a scrappy, artist-run effort has grown into a festival that champions playwrights at every stage....
Ballet Rogue Comes to Adelaide Fringe
by Stephi Wild - January 28, 2026
Celebrating what ballet can be. Ballet Rogue returns to the Adelaide Fringe in 2026 with ‘Beyond Ballet Gala'. After a successful sold-out debut for 'Bloom Ballet Gala' at Adelaide Fringe 2025, Ballet Rogue is back with a bigger season! ...
Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER at The Rogue Theatre
by Zach Wetzel - January 10, 2026
This is a brilliant and joyous prequel to PETER PAN....
Rogue Machine's ANTHROPOLOGY Comes to The Matrix Theatre
by Stephi Wild - October 01, 2025
The North American Premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, directed by John Perrin Flynn, will launch Rogue Machine’s new season on their mainstage. Learn more here!...
Review: ADOLESCENT SALVATION at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - September 24, 2025
Adolescent Salvation is the kind of play that is challenging to review because I absolutely hate it, while loving what Rogue Machine does with it....
Review: TARTUFFE at The Rogue Theatre
by Zach Wetzel - September 07, 2025
Tartuffe by Molière is now playing at The Rogue Theatre, and it is glorious! This was my first time visiting The Rogue, and I am kicking myself for not venturing into this incredible performance space sooner....
Rogue Machine Theatre Reveals FAIRVIEW and More for Season 18 Lineup
by A.A. Cristi - August 04, 2025
Rogue Machine Theatre will open Season 18 on October 4, 2025, with four L.A. premieres including Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview. The season also features Fringe participation and the Playwright’s Roundtable Festival....
BOOK CLUB Comes to Rogue Theater Festival
by Stephi Wild - July 07, 2025
This summer, chaos comes dressed in activewear and emotional baggage. BOOK CLUB, a blisteringly funny new play about friendship, fallout, and the thin line between support and self-destruction, premieres at The Flea Theater....
PRETTY, WITTY NELL Returns to Barons Court Theatre In July
by A.A. Cristi - June 25, 2025
Ryan J-W Smith, the multi-award-winning poet-playwright known as Rogue Shakespeare, will bring his OFFIES Award-winning tragicomic verse play Pretty, Witty Nell back to London this summer for a limited engagement at Barons Court Theatre, running July 22–26, 2025....
Review: NICE GIRL at Rogue Machine at The Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - June 23, 2025
Nice Girl is the West Coast premiere of a must-see new drama at Rogue Machine on Melrose through July 20th. This is a quietly thoughtful, intimately compelling slice-of-life four person play I found incredibly poignant and moving....
Cultivate Theatre Project To Present CLEAN SLATE At Rogue Theatre Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 18, 2025
Cultivate Theatre Project and Rogue Theatre Festival will present the first staged reading of Rachel Leighson's Clean Slate in August. Learn more and see how to attend. ...
Rogue Theater Festival Unveils Seventh Annual Festival Lineup
by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 03, 2025
Rogue Theater Festival is back and bigger than ever, celebrating it's seventh annual festival with works that will be presented by the festival in August, 2025 at The Flea in New York City and streaming on CUR8 globally....
Review: CORKTOWN '39 at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - April 28, 2025
Corktown ’39 is a new play that feels like a classic, the kind of intelligent, thought-provoking drama that you can imagine a playwright like Aaron Sorkin or Henrik Ibsen might have written....
SCHLITZIE: ALIVE AND INSIDE Comes to Rogue Artists Ensemble
by Stephi Wild - February 27, 2025
Rogue Artists Ensemble will present a limited engagement production of Schlitzie: Alive and Inside, by Eric Fagundes and directed by Nikki DiLoreto. Learn more here!...
Review: BACON at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - February 16, 2025
Bacon is the West Coast premiere of a simmering new drama at Rogue Machine on Melrose running through March 30th. Brawny, raw, savagely intimate, Bacon is a spare two-person play by Sophie Swithinbank that grabs us hard and never lets us go, even for a second....
Review: EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - February 07, 2025
A smash hit at Rogue Machine already, many performances are already sold out. Evanston Salt Costs Climbing is a strange, satirical, darkly funny meditation on loss, anxiety, and depression. Among other things, it touches on our universal creeping feeling of dread, the vastness of the problems fa...
EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING Comes to Rogue Machine
by Stephi Wild - January 22, 2025
Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery confronts humanity’s darkest fears with humor, warmth, and the fortitude of municipal public servants in this play about climate and change....
Rogue Theater Festival And Riff Raff NYC Announce Winners Of Immigrants In America Festival
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2025
The winners of the 2024 Immigrants in America festival presented by Rogue Theater Festival and Riff Raff NYC have been selected. The festival, which ran at the Court Square Theater in Long Island City on December 7th and 8th, 2024....
Review: Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant Forge Poetry at Joe's Pub
by Chloe Yang - December 13, 2024
Paul Muldoon and Rogue Oliphant blend literary depth with rock energy at Joe's Pub, previewing their new album 'Visible from Space,' and proving maturity enhances rather than dims artistry....
Power Outage Forces Old Fitz Theatre To Cancel THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES Performances
by Blair Ingenthron - November 16, 2024
The Old Fitz Theatre in Sydney has temporarily closed due to a power outage, affecting performances of THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES. The outage began Friday, with ongoing issues possibly causing more cancellations....
Feature: The Rogue Theatre's Anniversary Season Celebrates 20 Years of Pushing Boundaries
by Robert Encila-Celdran - August 29, 2024
Whether by design or coincidence, The Rogue Theatre kicks off its 20th season with a vivid and prophetic opener: THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH by Thornton Wilder, a playwright acclained for his fierce deconstruction of 20th-century norms. This selection sets the tone for a remarkable season, reaffirming the...
Review: HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR at Rogue Artists Ensemble
by Andrew Child - August 25, 2024
Director Sean Cawelti has crafted a handful of stunning visuals which punctuate the narrative with video projection, meticulously-rendered puppet choreography, and a particularly stunning sequence with pyrotechnics....
Review: HUMAN ERROR at Rogue Machine At The Matrix Theatre
by Amanda Callas - August 22, 2024
In the sublime tradition of the madcap screwball comedies of the 1930s and the great farces of the stage by writers like Molière and Aristophanes, Human Error has dazzling, brilliant writing. ...
Review: PATIENT 13 at Rogue Machine
by Amanda Callas - August 18, 2024
A smash hit at Hollywood Fringe, Patient 13 follows Gail Thomas on her journey with cancer, mental health, and becoming the subject of a medical study about the clinical use of magic mushrooms. ...
Interview: Joshua Bitton Not Making Any HUMAN ERRORs
by Gil Kaan - August 07, 2024
Next up for Rogue Machine is the world premiere of Eric Pfeffinger’s Human Error opening August 10, 2024, at the Matrix. Joshua Bitton directs the cast of Lauren Burns, Andrew Hawtrey, Kiel Kennedy, Kapil Talwalkar and Kristen Vaganos. Joshua found some time during the last days of rehearsals t...
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