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September 17, 2014 Special Sections » Rochester Fringe Festival

FRINGE FEST 2014: City's Daily Fringe Blogs 

Reviews and photos from the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival

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The 2014 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival runs September 18-27, 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.

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•Frank reviews perCepTION

•Photos from "The Cougar & the Cabana Boy"

•Adam reviews "Dashboard Dramas"

•Rebecca reviews Cirque du Fringe



•Jake reviews Circus Orange's "Tricycle" [PLUS! Over 40 photos & video]

•David reviews "SaMe SeX sHaKeSpEaRe" 2014

•Casey reviews Sisters of Murphy and "Unbridled"

•Photos from Canary in a Coal Mine, Silent Disco, and "Divas"

•Frank reviews The Younger Gang



•David reviews "W.A.C. Iraq" and "Bernhardt on Broadway"

•Frank reviews "Dead Dames Don't Dance"

•Casey reviews PUSH Physical Theatre and "Germination"

•Adam reviews the RIT School of Film and Animation Student Honors Show and "Trending"

•Jake reviews Sound ExChange



•David reviews "A Page of Madness," "Coffee With God," and "The Last Five Years"

•Rebecca reviews "Merely Players"

•Adam reviews "Vintage Hitchcock," "Solo Drum Solo," and "God of Carnage"



•Rebecca reviews "My Name is Rachel Corrie"



•Frank reviews Hopeless Romantic

•Rebecca reviews "The Steele Sisters: Comedy Sword-Fighting Show" and "The Nameless Days of Gumdrop Smith"



•Casey reviews Biodance and "Diaghilesque"

•Rebecca reviews "Merged II"

•Photos from "TriviaCITY"



• Photos from "Echoes of '64," The Heroic Enthusiasts, and Sand Mandalas

• David reviews "The Cougar and the Cabana Boy"

• Casey reviews "Garth Fagan Dance: Up Close & Personal"

• Rebecca reviews "Moment of Impact"

• Adam reviews "140 Characters or Less" and 20 Penny Circus



• Frank reviews Teressa Wilcox Band, Violet Mary, the Heroic Enthusiasts, and The Campbell Brothers

• Adam reviews "Spoon River Rochester" and "Bushwacked"



• David reviews "Chocolate CasiAmargo," "You Are Where," and "M.I.A."


In This Guide...

  • Rebecca reviews "The Steele Sisters: Comedy Sword-Fighting Show" and "The Nameless Days of Gumdrop Smith"

    The two ladies who comprise "The Steele Sisters: Comedy Sword-Fighting Show" gave the kind of playful, riotous performance that makes you wish they were your buddies. Gwendolyn and Gertrude Steele, dressed in fanciful layers of medieval garb, took the stage at Blackfriars Theatre and revved the audience into a participatory frenzy with a few playful false-starts before actually beginning the show.

    Sep 24, 2014

  • Frank reviews Hopeless Romantic

    The term hopeless romantic makes about as much sense to me as the phrase guilty pleasure. If you're a romantic then you're far from hopeless.

    Sep 24, 2014

  • Rebecca reviews "The Steele Sisters: Comedy Sword-Fighting Show" and "The Nameless Days of Gumdrop Smith"

    The two ladies who comprise "The Steele Sisters: Comedy Sword-Fighting Show" gave the kind of playful, riotous performance that makes you wish they were your buddies. Gwendolyn and Gertrude Steele, dressed in fanciful layers of medieval garb, took the stage at Blackfriars Theatre and revved the audience into a participatory frenzy with a few playful false-starts before actually beginning the show.

    Sep 24, 2014

  • Rebecca reviews "My Name is Rachel Corrie"

    Rebecca reviews "My Name is Rachel Corrie"

    MuCCC hosted an important work of art the past two nights. The one-woman show, "My Name is Rachel Corrie," chronicles the life of a young American Peace Activist who traveled to Gaza in 2003 with the International Solidarity Movement to defend Palestinian homes from being demolished.

    Sep 23, 2014

  • Rebecca reviews "Merely Players"

    Rebecca reviews "Merely Players"

    The Sunday, September 21, performance of "Merely Players" felt a bit rushed, as though there was too much content for the hour-long performance. The small troupe flew through one select scene from each of several of Shakespeare's more popular plays, which at times included masks, pantomime, and puppetry.

    By Rebecca Rafferty Sep 22, 2014

  • Adam reviews "Vintage Hitchcock," "Solo Drum Solo," and "God of Carnage"

    Adam reviews "Vintage Hitchcock," "Solo Drum Solo," and "God of Carnage"

    Screen Plays' performance of "Vintage Hitchcock" got my afternoon off to a great start. A packed crowd filled the Dryden Theatre, eager to experience the old-timey goodness of a live radio play -- and the performers more than delivered.

    By Adam Lubitow Sep 22, 2014

  • David reviews "A Page of Madness," "Coffee With God," and "The Last Five Years"

    David reviews "A Page of Madness," "Coffee With God," and "The Last Five Years"

    What better way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon than in a Japanese madhouse? That is the setting for "KuruttaIppeji," or "A Page of Madness," a recently discovered silent film from 1926 by the Japanese director Teinosuke Kinugasa.

    By David Raymond Sep 22, 2014

  • Jake reviews Sound ExChange

    Jake reviews Sound ExChange

    Recently, Sound ExChange received a grant from the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation to produce its "01X Project," a series of concerts that aim to integrate the audience into the performance through technology and visual art. The group -- an artist collective that formed at the Eastman School -- partnered with RIT photography professor Susan Lakin and computer science professor Joe Geigel, and Katie Verrant, a new media design student at RIT, to really push "01X" into new interdisciplinary spaces.

    By Jake Clapp Sep 21, 2014

  • Casey reviews PUSH Physical Theatre and "Germination"

    Casey reviews PUSH Physical Theatre and "Germination"

    PUSH Physical Theatre is always entertaining, but it has deep ideas to communicate as well. Through movement, of course.

    By Casey Carlsen Sep 21, 2014

  • Frank reviews The Younger Gang

    Frank reviews The Younger Gang

    As the ghosts of so many mondo-cool rock shows of years gone by bounced off the walls of the empty pool that is Manhatan Square Park, The Younger Gang conjured bluegrassy boogiemen and specters of its own. This string-driven quartet takes the vintage patina of old-tyme music and applies it to a slightly modernized sound.

    By Frank De Blase Sep 21, 2014

  • Frank reviews "Dead Dames Don't Dance"

    Frank reviews "Dead Dames Don't Dance"

    "Dead Dames Don't Dance" at Geva -- or anywhere else for that matter unless you count my minor obsession with the Black Dahlia doing her annual bisected Charleston in my fevered dreams.

    By Frank De Blase Sep 21, 2014

  • Adam reviews the RIT School of Film and Animation Student Honors Show and "Trending"

    I started my third day of the Fringe Festival by heading over to the Little Theatre to catch the RIT School of Film and Animation Student Honors Show. Speaking before the screening began, Administrative Chair Malcolm Spaull explained that the program was curated by faculty members to incorporate each type of film (narrative, documentary, experimental, along with 2D, 3D, and stop-motion animation), with works by students from every year of the program -- from first year BFA students to those in their final year of their Masters -- being represented.

    By Adam Lubitow Sep 21, 2014

  • David reviews "W.A.C. Iraq" and "Bernhardt on Broadway"

    David reviews "W.A.C. Iraq" and "Bernhardt on Broadway"

    Rochester Latino Theatre Company's "W.A.C. Iraq" takes a complicated subject and presents it in a simple, powerful way. This tribute to Latina women in the Armed Forces who have served in Iraq honors their contributions, details their sacrifices, and asks some disturbing questions about a country that gives poor women opportunities in the military and often takes them away when they return from service.

    By David Raymond Sep 21, 2014

  • Jake reviews Circus Orange's "Tricycle"

    Jake reviews Circus Orange's "Tricycle"

    Before I dive into my thoughts on Circus Orange's "Tricycle," I feel like I should give a quick disclaimer: Given the performance's scope, the large crowd, and the layout of Manhattan Square, there were parts of the performance that were just impossible to see from my position. I welcome readers to fill in some of the details and tell us about their perspective of the show.

    By Jake Clapp Sep 20, 2014

  • David reviews "SaMe SeX sHaKeSpEaRe" 2014

    David reviews "SaMe SeX sHaKeSpEaRe" 2014

    The Rochester Shakespeare Players' "SaMeSeXsHaKeSpEaRe" was a hit at last year's festival, and if you've ever wanted to see Macbeth in a red power suit and heels, or Hamlet as the original emo teen, you have one more chance to see the 2014 edition, on September 26. This is a nicely paced, 45-minute tour through familiar scenes from the plays mentioned above, plus "Twelfth Night" and a sonnet, with the genders reversed ("Macbeth's" Weird Sisters are now Weird Homeless People) or otherwise scrambled.

    By David Raymond Sep 20, 2014

  • Casey reviews Sisters of Murphy and "Unbridled"

    Casey reviews Sisters of Murphy and "Unbridled"

    Friday on the Fringe was full of free offerings, but fun, not free, is the word that epitomized the night for me. I left feeling happy, energized, and excited about the festival; music, dance and photography cavorting in my brain. Sisters of Murphy, a local band that fuses traditional Celtic drinking songs with rock 'n' roll played at that Manhattan Square bowl, a venue that worked well acoustically.

    By Casey Carlsen Sep 20, 2014

  • Photos from Canary in a Coal Mine, Silent Disco, and "Divas"

    Photos from Canary in a Coal Mine, Silent Disco, and "Divas"

    Canary in a Coal Mine will perform again on Saturday, September 20 at 10pm at MuCCC. Silent Disco will occur again Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27 at 11pm at the Spiegeltent.

    Sep 20, 2014

  • Frank reviews perCepTION

    Frank reviews perCepTION

    So there I was, nursing the blood of the bean from a ceramic chalice, watching the nubile cavalcade's ebb and flow at Java's on Gibbs Street, when what to my wondering eyes appeared but perCepTION on stage kicking out the jams in hiiiiigh gear. This outfit was tres cool with lots of exploratory spirit that never went too far as its members were tethered to the earth and one another.

    By Frank De Blase Sep 19, 2014

  • Rebecca reviews Cirque du Fringe

    Rebecca reviews Cirque du Fringe

    Cirque du Fringe's take on Mardi Gras played to a packed Spiegeltent on Thursday night, and was a thoroughly entertaining trip. Old-timey clowns Tyler and Carl were the informative and charmingly abrasive hosts of the 20 Penny Circus, providing humorous banter and historic tidbits about Fat Tuesday between daring acts by the Kenya Safari Acrobats, who delighted everyone with B-Boy-style acrobatics.

    By Rebecca Rafferty Sep 19, 2014

  • Photos from "The Cougar & the Cabana Boy"

    Photos from "The Cougar & the Cabana Boy"

    In this original musical comedy, cougars fraternize with their pool boys. Check out future performances on Thursday, September 25th, Friday, September 26th, and Saturday, September 27th at the TheatreROCS Stage at Xerox Auditorium as part of the 2014 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.

    Sep 19, 2014

  • Adam reviews "Dashboard Dramas"

    Adam reviews "Dashboard Dramas"

    Located just outside of the Spiegeltent -- but at the opposite end of the Fringe spectrum as the glitzy spectacle of "Cirque du Fringe" -- "Dashboard Dramas" is a no-frills affair, though it still completely encapsulates the spirit of the festival: It's fast, fun, and wildly creative. Directed by Patricia Lewis and written by Abby DeVuyst and Kerry Young, the show's format is ingenious: four parked cars along the edge of the Spiegelgarden, each assigned a number from one through four.

    By Adam Lubitow Sep 19, 2014

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