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
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
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
Aurelia Cohen joins Rogue Favorite Strangely for a bite-sized Circus! Join us for a winsomely whimsical collection of Music, Juggling, Acrobatics, Contortion, Side-Show and Clowning. . Strangely has finally run… Read More »Cirque de Poche
Join four dramatically-inclined women for a hot bevvie and writing that examines the stories we tell about our lives. Through essays, poems, and whimsical meanderings, the writers of Elastic Ink explore the space where truth blurs into myth and memory feels suspiciously like a fairy tale. These are stories “as it happens” and as we… Read More »As It Happens and Other Fairy Tales
Winner Best International Show - Colchester Fringe , Audience pick of The Fringe Prague Fringe , Patrons Pick - Orlando Fringe . Fringe Encore - Cincy Fringe This i award winning show the tells the true story of William Dorsey Swann former slave who became the Queen of Drag in Washington DC in the late… Read More »The Real Black Swann
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
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
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
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
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
This show conjures feelings coming from memories walking down Blackstone Avenue in the bloom of first love in the early 70s with pockets full of paper boy money and a mind filled with fm radio and the echoes of tribal gatherings at Selland Arena, later fed by wage slave routines and spiritual bike rides through… Read More »Life Reflection Songs
A magical performance that has traveled the world, the Magic of Eric has entertained audiences for the past decade with his unique and engaging approach to magic. Buy Tickets
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
A rollicking, passionate solo show of storytelling and music in the American South, The Biscuiteater is a powerful piece about guns, death, and dignity. Drawing on his Southern childhood, Jim Loucks tells the story of a small-town policeman, based loosely on his Granddaddy, who is haunted by his shooting of a man in the line… Read More »CANCELLED – The Biscuiteater
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
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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
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
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… Read More »Wikipedilove
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)
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
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)