I started the second day of Fringe with a chamber quartet, The Chanson String Quartet to be exact, who played pieces focusing on death so gingerly and gently that the audience in the near-empty Xerox Auditorium (the TheatreROCS Main Stage) didn’t quite know where or when to applaud. The group played Camille Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre,” […]
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Rebecca reviews ‘Confessions of a Prairie B;+@h,’ and Patton Oswalt
Admittedly, I was never a huge fan of “Little House on the Prairie.” But I knew enough about the show that I got the joke each time Alison Arngrim (who played Nellie Oleson) referenced it during her debut Rochester Fringe Festival performance of “Confessions of a Prairie B;+@h” at School of the Arts. Unfortunately, this […]
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Jake reviews ‘Anomaly’
Well, that was a beautiful way to start my 2016 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival. A buzzing crowd filled the Strasenburgh Planetarium for a resurrection of “Anomaly,” which premiered to acclaim at the 2013 Fringe, and has already sold out its 2016 run. I wasn’t around for the program’s 2013 edition, but what I saw […]
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Frank reviews Cirque Du Fringe: ‘Miracle Cure’
The Spiegeltent strikes me as a steampunk spaceship sent down to teach us the art of the spectacle. In an unrelenting fast-paced show, a sold-out crowd was treated to Cirque Du Fringe — jugglers, contortionists, dancers, acrobats, slapstick comics, one guy who balanced 10 spinning plates on sticks the way I saw it done on […]
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Rebecca reviews ‘Somnium,’ ‘Here I Lie,’ and ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’
My first evening of Fringe began at School of the Arts, where RAPA presented Dramatic Space’s debut production, “Somnium.” The zany adventure story started with the premise that a small group of scientists had observed that there was more to CERN’s discovery of the Higgs Boson “God Particle” than previously thought. When strange phenomena results […]
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Leah Stacy reviews ‘The Kiss’
There were almost too many performance choices on opening night of the Fringe (a good sign, of course, for the festival’s fifth year). After attending the opening night party where we toasted to the success of 500 shows taking place over the next 10 days, I headed to School of the Arts on Prince Street. […]
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Rochester Fringe 2016: City’s Daily Fringe Blogs
The 2016 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival runs Thursday, September 15, through Saturday, September 24, and City Newspaper will be out EVERY NIGHT of the festival covering multiple shows. Check in first thing each morning for photos and reviews of the previous night’s entertainment, listed below by date. For up-to-the-minute coverage of the festival follow […]
