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Broadway Upstate Arts Alive presents " The Prom" This show follows Emma Nolan (Mattea Rice), a high school student in the conservative town of Edgewater, Indiana, who wants to attend prom with her girlfriend, Alyssa Greene (Violet Brown). The local PTA & school board initially...
Theatre444, the Finger Lakes region’s acclaimed destination for innovative, transformative theatre, is proud to announce its upcoming production of the award-winning musical Dogfight.
This Edinburgh Fringe Festival cult hit comes to Rochester Fringe for one performance only, scheduled for Thursday, September 17 at 9 p.m. in the Spiegeltent. The Edinburgh Evening News noted that the gorilla is obviously crucial to the event. Admission is free with seating on a...
In the DNA of every iconic musical are the b-sides that were cut from the show. Join up-and-coming baritenor Connor McGuire for the world premiere of this intimate cabaret of songs that never made it to Broadway...and the stories behind them. Experience delightful deep cuts by...
This free, outdoor spectacle is the first-ever large-scale collection of outdoor circus performances in Western New York, turning Rochester into a 'mini-Montreal' for the first weekend of Fringe. It runs at Parcel 5 from 5-10 p.m. and Gibbs Streets from 5-9 p.m. The event is...
Big Teeth Collective presents Flotsam & Jetsam, a physical theater piece featuring a duo trapeze act with partner acrobatics on an outdoor swinging trapeze rig. Founded in Vermont in 2017, Big Teeth makes funny shows about sad things through the medium of the body. The...
Circus Evo's outdoor activation Lost to Me features a Chinese pole performance accompanied by live musicians, designed to transform familiar public spaces into breathtaking arenas of wonder. The company's work reclaims public space by turning city parks, town squares, and...
Flip Fabrique is a circus company based in Québec City, Canada, renowned around the world for its contemporary circus productions and an uncanny ability to engage audiences. The troupe is composed of world-class artists and has been performing large-scale shows in Québec City...
The Pieces is an acrobatic circus show in which six artists explore eight ordinary ladders to build towers, cranes, and bridges. Alone, the ladders and artists are wobbly and unstable, but together they become strong and capable, serving as a metaphor for collective resilience...
By Tracey Yarad Directed by David Deblinger Produced by Tracey Yarad in association with The Australian Theatre Festival NYC MULTI AWARD WINNING: BEST MUSIC ADELAIDE FRINGE 2026 When a 23-year marriage implodes, one woman turns heartbreak into a razor-sharp musical confession...
Eureka Day is a play by Jonathan Spector, presented as part of Blackfriars Theatre's 77th season in downtown Rochester, NY.
This is a free, uplifting experience taking place on Sunday, September 20 at 1 p.m.
Thornton Wilder's Our Town, directed by Brodie McPherson, transports audiences to the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, at the turn of the century. As its inhabitants navigate life, love, and loss, they invite the audience to share in the beauty of the everyday. The...
Versa-Style Street Dance Company, founded by Jackie "Miss Funk" Lopez and Leigh "Breeze-Lee" Foaad, performs their mixed-repertory production as part of the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival. The show pays homage to street dance styles such as Waacking, Popping, and House, as well...
Rooted Rhythms is Versa-Style’s electrifying mixed repertory program, featuring a vibrant collection of original dance works and excerpts from the company’s 20-year history. Paying homage to Street Dance styles such as Waacking, Popping and House, as well as a blend of...
NYC-based drag artists Xena Fauxbia (Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin) and Soda Pressed (Adin Lenahan) resurrect Judy Garland's legendary 1961 Carnegie Hall performance through a lip-sync extravaganza blending drag, theater, and cultural criticism. The show examines societal fatphobia and...
B-Sides of Broadway is a 50-minute cabaret act featuring ten songs written for Broadway blockbusters and subsequently cut before opening night. The show is performed by triple-threat Connor McGuire, accompanied by pianist Dane Noble-Rosema, with two duets featuring soprano...
In the DNA of every iconic musical are the b-sides that were cut from the show. Join up-and-coming baritenor Connor McGuire for the world premiere of this intimate cabaret of songs that never made it to Broadway...and the stories behind them. Experience delightful deep cuts by...
A lyrical, nonlinear portrait of love, "Bright Half Life" follows Erica and Vicky as their relationship unfolds in fragments across decades—moments of joy, strain, risk, and reinvention. Leaping through time like memory itself, Tanya Barfield’s play captures how a life together...
A lyrical, nonlinear portrait of love, Bright Half Life follows Erica and Vicky as their relationship unfolds in fragments across decades, capturing moments of joy, strain, risk, and reinvention. Written by Tanya Barfield, the play leaps through time like memory itself...
Pete Davidson performs as the 2026 ESL Rochester Fringe Festival Comedy Headliner. Davidson is a celebrated stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his tenure on Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2022 and multiple Netflix comedy specials including Turbo...
The lives of five people are imaginatively woven together to discover it’s the heart’s language that matters most.
3AM Theatre, based in New York City, brings contemporary circus performances to the streets of Rochester during the Fringe festival. Their performances include hand balancing, contortion archery, acro juggling, tightwire, and original music. The company will appear throughout...
An Intimate Evening with David Foster & Katharine McPhee brings the 16-time Grammy-winning producer and Broadway star together for a night of iconic hits and powerful vocals. The performance takes place on September 26, 2026 at 8 pm at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony...
This interactive, high-energy comedy spectacle features absurd testimonials, musical numbers and miraculous transformations.
Las Vegas legends Matt and Heidi Morgan present a world premiere murder mystery set on a cruise ship, featuring acts from Atomic Saloon Show, Circus Circus, Cirque Mechanics, Teatro ZinZanni, Spiegelworld, NBA halftime shows and the World Circus Arts Championships.
Written and performed by Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams ("equal parts devotion, subversion and wit"—Washington Post), a satirical folk-rock-variety-show based on the fantastical, gruesome, salacious, inspiring stories of Catholic saints, ranging from the famous—St...
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Dogfight Theatre444 (8/21-8/29) |
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THE PROM The Wood Theater (8/14-8/23) |
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Wicked Proctor's Theatre (11/05-11/05) |
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The Who''s Tommy The Stanley (4/06-4/07) |
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Capital Fools Nazareth University (12/31-12/31) |
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Hell's Kitchen Proctors Theatre (12/29-1/03) |
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OFC Creations Theatre Presents: Hairspray! OFC Creations Theatre Center (9/24-10/11) |
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On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco Multi-Use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) (9/18-9/26) |
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Doja Cat at Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden (12/01-12/01) |
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Our Town Nazareth University (10/08-10/10) |
