Best locally created national sensation Bru-Bag Imagine the love-child of beer pong and cornhole and you’ve got Bru-Bag. While it sounds like something you’d get from a quirky Amazon seller, it’s actually made in Rochester by two laid-back guys. The “classic” set includes two game boards, two sets of bags, a carrying bag, and a […]
Critics’ Picks
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Critics’ picks: Adam Lubitow
“50 Shades of Gay,” Bad Idea Entertainment and “Good Joke/Bad Joke Bingo,” “Big Knockers: Debunking the Fox Sisters,” and more.
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Critics’ picks: Amanda Fintak
“3D Sound Experience in the Immersive Igloo,” Fringe Street Beat, Discover India, and more.
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Critics’ picks: David Raymond
“13 the Musical,” “The Queens Speak,” “When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet,” and more.
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Critics’ picks: Frank De Blase
PUSH Physical Theatre, Pinch and Squeal, “The Black Bird of Death,” and more.
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Critics’ picks: Rebecca Rafferty
“Lady Philosophy on Trial,” “Labyrinth,” “You’re Being Watched,” and more.
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Critics’ picks 2016
Best pathetic PokeStop “Pillars and Archway over Garbage Can” For a good month or two, the sidewalks in some Rochester neighborhoods were filled with people staring at their phones, trying to catch Jigglypuffs and Evees and Snorlaxes. I admit, without any shame, that I was one of the many who got sucked into Pokรฉmon GO. […]
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CRITICS PICKS: Rebecca Rafferty
“Confessions of a Prairie B;+@h” As a pre-teen, Alison Arngrim excelled at exaggerated petulance in her role as “Nasty Nellie” Oleson on TV’s “Little House on the Prairie.” Now 54, Arngrim brings her one-woman show, “Confessions of a Prairie B;+@h,” based on her book of the same name, to Rochester’s Fringe. Through standup and multimedia […]
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CRITICS PICKS: Leah Stacy
“The Kiss” One of Rochester’s most experimental theater companies, WallByrd Theatre Co., will present not one but two shows during this year’s Fringe. One is a theatrical reading of a new “Dracula” adaptation; the other is “The Kiss” by award-winning playwright Murray Watts. The two-person show centers on a mysterious meeting at a park bench. […]
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CRITICS PICKS: David Raymond
“Dangerous Theatre: Hallie Flanagan” As director of the government’s Federal Theatre Project, Hallie Flanagan gave opportunities to such politically minded artists as Orson Welles, Marc Blitzstein, and John Houseman, with results that were controversial and, to some, unpatriotic. “Dangerous Theatre” dramatizes Flanagan’s 1938 testimony to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee – a minatory slice of […]
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CRITICS PICKS: Frank De Blase
“Flatfoots, Floozies & Murder” Set in 1920’s Chicago and overflowing with hot music, gin mills, and gangsters, the audience is invited in to help Dick Tracey solve a murder — or add to the confusion. This is classic fun with the era starring as a character itself, interspersed with language and style that is beautifully […]
