The corporate arena’s Battle Royale: The annual performance review. Sparks fly as two men clash in this fast-paced, comedic drama about insecurity, status, & masculinity. A brand new world premiere play from Martin Dockery, winner of 70 worldwide awards over 18 years of touring. Directed by Vanessa Quesnelle, and starring Andrew Broaddus & Martin Dockery.… Read More »The Review by Martin Dockery
KatWoodRooney is a Fresno based group focusing on Original, Americana, and other Roots music. Collectively and individually we have decades of experience playing for curious, committed, and compassionate music lovers. Our music is born in the intimacy of living rooms, backyard jam sessions, and with loved ones around the campfire. We want to share our… Read More »An Infinite Garden and Bountiful Harvest
WE WILL RISE is a powerful docu-theater work written by JP Rapozo, one of Toni Curtsinger’s best friends from college. It traces the extraordinary true story of Toni — a woman who survived the 2012 Aurora, Colorado Batman movie-theater mass shooting after being shot in the face while nine months pregnant. Through interviews, testimony, and… Read More »We Will Rise
Janice Noga sings for love of country while sharing her family's immigration story, singing in the Oval Office, singing in the State Capitol, and asking her audience to sing those patriotic songs along with her. Buy Tickets
Cassini is a music/film by Tony Imperatrice and Horizon award winner Claudio Laso. It tells the story of NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn using actual NASA images and original music by Tony Imperatrice. We follow the Cassini spacecraft from launch to her final end, with stunning images of the planet, Saturn's unique moons and the… Read More »Cassini LIVE
This 45 minute performance game show combines elements of wheel of fortune (the tarot card and TV show), charades, and trivial pursuit. Join our hosts as we invite six contestants from the eager audience to form two teams to answer questions about obvious to obscure magical principles, bio-regional knowledge and other tidbits from our collective… Read More »Guess What! A Radical Game Show
Bloody Fairytales is a performance of gorgeous, gruesome old stories told new… dark fairytales re-upholstered for adult ears and late-night imaginations. Told live by International Storytelling Center Teller-in-Residence and National Storytelling Festival Featured Teller Paul Strickland, these are the stories that are strange, darkly funny, unsettling, and occasionally feral. Chock full of bad decisions, sharp… Read More »Bloody Fairytales: Paul Strickland
IT’S ABOUT TEA! IT’S ABOUT TIME! F**K OFF, I’M STEEPING. “Definitely a must-see! Comforting and bold… A tea party for your soul.” -LCT Review At Tea TIME, you’ll be chanting one minute and closing your eyes the next. You’ll cry some, but laugh more. Whistle when the time comes. Don’t worry, you’ll know. The newest… Read More »Erika MacDonald: TeaTIME
COME ON GET HAPPY! Jaguar Bennett, Fresno's most reassuring comedian, is ready to make you laugh and bring joy to your heart! In a world that's full of suffering, pain, injustice, a MOTHERFUCKING FASCIST MURDERING GOVERNMENT AND COMPLACENT COWARDLY POLITICIANS (sorry, please ignore that, I lost my self-control for a second) isn't it better to… Read More »Jaguar Bennett: Sweetness and Light
Noam Osband (Brother Love; Circumscribed) performs original musical comedy based on Wikipedia articles about love and sex. Using a projector to show articles, photos, and videos Noam will brings laughs and tears with tender songs on topics like the brief romantic life moths, the kinky lives of whales, and the tragedy of Hitler's love life.… Read More »Wikipedilove
A hilarious and moving show by world-renowned Aussie comedian Jon Bennett (Fire in the Meth Lab, Pretending Things are a C*ck, AMERICAN'T) about life's unrepeatable moments. A therapist once told me that my relentless drive to perform comes from the same place as my obsession with wildlife: “Because both are rare, unpredictable, and fleeting.” That… Read More »Jon Bennett: This Will Only Ever Happen Once
From Fresno’s streets, Eve Reiland — a neurodivergent voice — turns lived survival into fearless, uncontainable poetic revolution. Fifteen years labeled “severely disabled” taught her what it means to be unseen, misunderstood, and underestimated. Yet here she exists still unbroken, carrying every tremor, bruise, and heartbeat into words that resist erasure. This is not performance.… Read More »Electric Confessions: I Am Revolution
Nadia Lotte and her talented ensemble make their full fledged RogueFest debut this year with Champagne Cabaret, a vintage inspired cabaret show including music, comedy, and striptease. Each show will be different, with new acts and guest performers! Champagne Cabaret began as a one-off show at The LAByrinth, and now brings both local and international… Read More »Champagne Cabaret
A Hot Flash Gospel is a bold, intimate one-woman spoken word experience that feels like revival, confession, and revolution all at once. Through poetry, storytelling, and sharp wit, LadyK navigates menopause, faith, grief, desire, Black womanhood, and spiritual reclamation...challenging who gets to preach, who gets believed, and whose bodies are deemed sacred. This is not… Read More »A Hot Flash Gospel
Geoffrey and Laura Rohlfing (nee' Manier) met at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2004 where Geoffrey was studying classical guitar and Laura, cello. They married in 2008 (the same year the Fresno State Bulldogs won the CWS) prior to Geoffrey starting medical school. They formed a trio with talented singer, songwriter, guitarist, Danny… Read More »The Osteotones
The Fools are back with their lovingly mangled take on 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', this time rooted in the present-day Central Valley for a take that’s more queer-powered, pro-immigrant, anti-fascist, and irreverent than ever. If you’ve never been, the S’Will series is what happens when you smash together Shakespeare, booze, improv, pop culture, and an… Read More »S’will
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From Rogue hitman Shane Scurvy Spears and friends, the world premiere of the first ever, adult, animated, Dungeons and Dragons sitcom! Join our merry band of losers on a tabletop clusterfuck adventure! Silly cartoons, live reads and foul deeds! Episodes 1-3 will show the first weekend run. Episodes 4-6 will show the second weekend run.… Read More »Saving Throw VS Fresno
The Fresno Belly Dance Collective proudly presents “Cabaret of Classics", a Belly Dance showcase, as part of the 2025 Rogue Festival. This is a great opportunity for audiences to see diverse styles of Belly Dance from performers who have spent years honing their art. Join us for a dazzling showcase celebrating the deep connection between… Read More »Cabaret of Classics
Contains: Sing-Alongs. (Allergens: Shenanigans, Sophistication, Striptease, Solipsism, Somnambulism, Suffering, Sublimation, Suspicion, Stum’blin, Sacrilege, Synergy, Squeezebox, and Slight Sagacity.) . Fuzzy Fan Favorite Strangely returns with new songs and tales from several years spent mucking about in boats. Strangely comes from a youth as a sea-dwelling beardo with an undeniable skill for crowd work, and a… Read More »Shanties and Stories with Strangely
Get ready for a night of non-stop laughter with co-headiners Jesse Feng (Amazon Prime) and Deric Brown (UCBxSNL Scholarship Recipient)! Come join us for a....Rushed Hour of comedy with two of the best up-and-coming acts from the Los Angeles region. Look at the poster, look at us, you get the reference. Artist Bios': Hailing originally… Read More »Rushed Hour Comedy
From Bentley's hyped up Spotify Artist Page: Scott Bentley is a singer-songwriter based in California's Central San Joaquin Valley. Crafting songs of expressive lyricism and beguiling soundscapes, Bentley blends retro Americana with his modern take on a songwriter’s proposition. His vocal tones and phrasing deliver immense tenderness and vulnerability and has garnered much attention and… Read More »What You Lifted
U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera says that Fresno is the "Capital of Poetry in the World." The Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing takes that literary legacy seriously. Hear the latest poetry and prose from emerging #FresnoWriters in this storytelling and spoken word show, including voices from the Chicanx… Read More »Fresno Writers Live
I have to clean out my “funny uncle’s” house. He’s dead. The whole family knows about him because, somehow, he was allowed to be around. We had to warn each new generation about him. We never understood why he was the way he was. Maybe there’s something in his house that’ll explain it. All of… Read More »My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection
Fasten your seatbelt! AirplaneJayne takes the stage ONE MORE TIME with her wildly true, laugh-out-loud stories—hamsters in the fridge, skydiving gone sideways, chaotic bike rides, and driving decisions that should’ve come with a warning label. Come curious. Leave crying-laughing. Buy Tickets