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The rodeo is the best place in the world. Why would anybody burn it down? Dale, a rodeo clown with a big dream (and a mischievous shadow), certainly wouldn’t. After all, Dale wants to be a cowboy. So, if we’re going to find out who burned the rodeo down, we'll have to finish the play. And now there’s fire involved? That sounds expensive.
Physical, brutal, ruthlessly funny, and weirdly tender, And Then The Rodeo Burned Down, from three-time Edinburgh Fringe First Award winners Xhloe and Natasha, is a rowdy, lightning-fast story of ambition, heartbreak, and the cost of pursuing the thing you love. Fake cigarettes, real fire.
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And Then The Rodeo Burned Down Off Broadway Review. Xhloe and Natasha on fire.
7 / 10
One might argue that this comic routine is an oblique effort to be part of the show’s effort to comment on masculinity. But there are more direct ways, some of them non-verbal. A couple of times, Xhloe as Dale wipes his nose with his knuckle. This simple, precisely observed gesture winds up illuminating the entire macho culture of the American West.
'And Then the Rodeo Burned Down' Off-Broadway review — cowboy clown show isn’t Xhloe and Natasha’s first rodeo
9 / 10
The charm of the show's latter half lies in an overlapping monologue about paying your dues to be able to afford — with both your reputation and your literal wallet — the art you want to make. This screed will hit home for many in the audience, though it may feel different for the onstage duo than it did in 2022, when they were struggling to debut Rodeo at the postponed Fringe; since then, they’ve performed it at Netflix’s comedy festival in Los Angeles. In an era when clown is elbowing its way into the mainstream, Xhloe and Natasha are cartwheeling right to the front.
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by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 1, 2026
See what the critics are saying about And Then The Rodeo Burned Down at Ars Nova, the first Off-Broadway production of playwriting and performing duo Xhloe and Natasha. Read BroadwayWorld's Review Roundup here!
by Stephi Wild - May 29, 2026
Ars Nova has extended AND THEN THE RODEO BURNED DOWN, the Off-Broadway debut of Drama Desk Award-winning duo Xhloe and Natasha, due to overwhelming demand.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 7, 2026
Ars Nova will present the Off-Broadway debut of playwriting and performing duo Xhloe and Natasha in their award-winning And Then The Rodeo Burned Down after an appearance in Ars Nova’s 2025 ANT Fest.
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Other Productions of And then the Rodeo Burned Down
| 2023 | West End |
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| 2026 | Off-Broadway |
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