The First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival — well, now known as the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival — ended its record-setting fifth year on September 24, and our staff has just about recovered from the arts overload. The 10-day festival had around 67,000 attendees this year, and sold out 115 shows — from theater, dance, and […]
Underground Episodes
Posted inSpecial Sections
Rebecca reviews ‘The A-is-for-Abortion Play,’ and ‘Underground Episodes’
It was sort of a bummer that only about a dozen people attended the first staging of “The A-is-for-Abortion Play” at the TheatreROCS venue, which can hold an audience of 700. The meager attendance might be explained by Fringe-goers wanting to spend their Saturday afternoon on more uplifting productions, but the show’s subject is an […]






