Fringe Festival

If RIT’s Wearable Technology Fashion Show, held at the Little Theatre Friday night, had been presented by students at critique, they likely would’ve received a poor grade. There were stops and starts each time there were technical difficulties with the light and motion capabilities in the costumes, or when one of the too-few models had […]

Showing up a mere eight minutes before my second Fringe Festival event on Friday was set to start nearly resulted in me not having a seat. When I entered RAPA’s (Rochester Association of Performing Arts) East End Theatre for “A Cappella Hour,” scheduled to start at 5 p.m., I was lucky enough to snag one […]

I kicked off a full Friday of Fringe with local theater troupe The Geriactors at GevaNextstage. I think the 4 p.m. start time was a bit ambitious on the part of whoever did the scheduling. Anything starting prior to 5 p.m. on a weekday is going to struggle to fill seats, and the 20 or […]

In what could be called a collision of two fringes — those being sound and motion — I watched “On Tap” Friday night at the Sproull Atrium, where dancers interpreted music and musicians interpreted dance. This is a fairly common practice, even in the heads of those who are completely unaware they’re doing it even […]

The name of the program I saw late afternoon Friday was “Casey Jones Costello Sings the Great American Songbook,” and that is precisely what young Mister Costello did to the delight of a large audience at Java’s on Gibbs Street. A student at Nazareth College with a rare and reassuring passion for the unequalled American […]

Fans of the Rochester Museum and Science Center’s trippier laser shows, as well as astronomical enthusiasts, will delight in “Lost in the Funhouse: Revolution,” a multimedia show held last night at Strasenburgh Planetarium (657 East Ave.) as part the Rochester Fringe Festival. Created and performed by Robert Kulik and Rick Scott of the vocal trio […]

Bristol Valley Theatre’s production of “Mary’s Wedding” opened Night 2 of the Rochester Fringe Festival, and was also the first show to take place at the TheatreROCS stage at Xerox Auditorium. The early show — it started at 5:30 p.m. — drew about 30 people in an auditorium with maximum seating for 700. The lack […]

Apparitions of light, sound, and movement filled Christ Church with moments of gravity Thursday night as FuturPointe Dance, led by Artistic Director Guy Thorne, performed “Spirits Within” to the chilling organ music of Stephen Kennedy, music director of Christ Church and professor of sacred music at the Eastman School of Music. Visuals projected on to […]