Dates: 9/9/2025 - 9/20/2025
📍 Theatre: Rochester Fringe Festival
The 2026 Official Fringe Guide is now available for the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival, which will run for 12 days in September. Fringe organizers have begun distributing more than 100,000 free copies of its 128-page guide throughout Rochester.
The 2025 ESL Rochester Fringe Festival to return September 9–20 with over 250 shows and 650 performances across 30+ venues. Highlights include the U.S. premiere of TRACES, the world-famous aerial spectacle SPHERE, immersive light installation SUBMERGENCE, and the debut of Cirque du Fringe: Claws Out.
The 2023 Rochester Fringe Festival (September 12-23) recently wrapped its twelfth festival and immediately started planning for 2024. The non-profit festival, which like many arts organizations is still rebounding from the pandemic, saw a 39% increase in ticket sales over the 2022 festival.
The Rochester Fringe Festival has announced today the full, curated festival lineup for the Spiegeltent and its adjacent Spiegelgarden, located at One Fringe Place (corner of Main and Gibbs Streets, across from Eastman Theatre), which operate for the entire duration of the festival (September 13-24).
Organizers of the Rochester Fringe Festival announced that the eleventh annual festival will include more than 500 performances and events – ranging from comedy, dance, kids' fringe, and multidisciplinary shows, to music, spoken word, theatre, and visual art & film – from Tuesday, September 13 – Saturday, September 24, 2022.
What shows have played recently at Rochester Fringe Festival?
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Come From Away CenterStage Theatre at the JCC (10/10-10/25) |
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Just For Us CenterStage Theatre at the JCC (12/05-12/20) |
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RIJF Innovation Jazz Series Theater at Innovation Square (10/15-5/06) |
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The Painter's Dream (El sueño del pintor) www.RetinaLatina.org (11/19-11/19) |
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A Good Farmer Rochester Community Players (10/16-10/24) |
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All The Devils Are Here Geva Theatre (1/13-1/31) |
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Topdog/Underdog Geva Theatre (10/13-11/22) |
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Dear Evan Hansen Cohoes Music Hall (2/25-3/21) |
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A Red, White & Blue Christmas Tri-Cities Opera (12/11-12/13) |
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Les Misérables Cohoes Music Hall (7/13-8/08) |
