Martin Dockery’s hit Off-Broadway play about two FBI agents on a stakeout of two agents on a stakeout of them. Funny. Heartbreaking. A unique theatrical experience about fathers & sons. Most recent Rogue shows: 1 Small Lie, TRUTH, Every Good Story Ends With One. Current Rogue shows: The Review, Wanderlust “5 STARS: A contender for… Read More »The Stakeout
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
Six years ago, Tim Mooney brought “Man Cave; a One-Man Comic Sci-Fi Thriller” to the Rogue Theatre Festival. “Man Cave” featured “the last man on Earth, broadcasting to whatever Klingons, Vulcans or Tralfamadorians might still be listening.” Those who lived through Rogue 2020 may remember a “pandemic” just after the first weekend of performances. Mooney… Read More »Man Cave, a One-Man Sci-Fi Climate Change Tragicomedy, Volume II
Something of Self-Infliction, Self-Awareness, Self-Control, and Self-Acceptance” is an evening-length contemporary choreographic work featuring four characters portraying different parts of one person as they fall into an introspective journey of self-discovery. This work takes the audience through an insight of how each of these characters interchangeably represent different sides of the one person, and how… Read More »Something of Self-Infliction, Self-Awareness, Self-Control, and Self-Acceptance
A woman attempts to share her life story without artifice when a soundtrack intrudes, creating on-the-spot musical detours and fantasies, script revisions, and a reappraisal of her identity. Written and performed by Kate McKnight; features original music by Kate McKnight and Jonathan Napoles. Buy Tickets
Aleño Dance Project invites you into a site-specific, immersive performance at Harts Haven Used Bookstore. This 50-minute exploration will take you through a journey in and out of the bookstore as we explore themes of community, ancestry, and self-love. Honoring the parts of ourselves we have inherited, carried, and echoed. Featuring choreography from Gael Garcia,… Read More »Rooted, Reaching: We Carry Each Other
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
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
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
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
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
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
The KLH Scrapbook: A One-Man Journey Through Fresno and Beyond” Kevin Lee Harris is back, and he’s bringing a treasure trove of new stories to the stage. The KLH Scrapbook is the long-awaited sequel to his 2008 one-man show, Kevin Harris Explains Himself. In this brand-new chapter, Kevin dives even deeper into the people, places,… Read More »The KLH Scrapbook
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
The Madeline Minx Cabaret: Still Not Domesticated is a sexy, funny, music-driven evening of storytelling, stand-up comedy, ambition, and unapologetic 90s pop nostalgia. Madeline Minx sings, rants, jokes, and whines her way through a lifelong obsession with pop stardom. Raised on music videos, power ballads, and the belief that girls were allowed to take up… Read More »The Madeline Minx Cabaret: Still Not Domesticated
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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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
New York City’s bingo-themed comedy show makes its Rogue Fest debut! Come for the laughs, stay for the bingo prizes. Comedian Joey Rinaldi returns to Fresno for the fourth straight year, but this time, he’s bringing his hit game-show-style comedy experience, Bingo Comedy. Instead of a traditional stand-up show, the audience plays joke-themed bingo during… Read More »Bingo Comedy (a comedy themed game show)
Watch Night with the Black Patti (Freedom’s Eve – Songs They Couldn't Silence) In this 55-minute theatrical experience, Cassandra Stafford steps into the role of Sissieretta Joyner Jones, the first Black woman to sing at Carnegie Hall. As The Black Patti, she narrates the journey of the Negro Spiritual—songs born in bondage, carried through struggle,… Read More »Watch Night with the Black Patti (Freedom’s Eve – Songs They Couldn’t Silence)
Since you last saw him, Emil Amok's one man show has evolved as the world continues on it's current path. “69, Emil Amok: Trump Derangement Syndrome? A Real Newsman Stands Up,” is a fast, fearless, funny one-man show by journalist, humorist, and poet laureate Emil Amok Guillermo. He turns a milestone birthday—and a full-blown case… Read More »69, Emil Amok’s Trump Derangement Syndrome–A Real Journalist Stands Up
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
A music-led exploration of listening and embodiment, using piano, play, and chance to navigate innocence, danger, and voice. Inner Child Museum is a music-led, embodied performance by Kadie Kelly, guided by piano works from her album Journey to Innocence. You may learn to finger crochet a chain with hot pink yarn, an innocent gesture with… Read More »The Inner Child Museum
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
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