Minion Productions returns with a brand new show! Triple Threat is a mix of talk show, variety show & coordinated chaos. Our featured guests will present 3 skills - 1 we know they're good at, 1 we didn't know they're good at, and 1 they're *absolutely* not good at. Get to know your Rogue Festival… Read More »Triple Threat
DYSFUNCTION is a healing journey put on stage. The show is about love, pain, trauma, and how - with community - we can move forward from things that happen to us. The show teaches us that no one is above dysfunction and no one is below healing. This is not one story. It is a… Read More »DYSFUNCTION: A New Musical – In Concert!
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… Read More »The Madeline Minx Cabaret: Still Not Domesticated
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
In an unspecified totalitarian country, a man is interrogated because he’s not sad enough about the dictator’s death in this political satire. Playwright Andrew Rosdail wrote his original draft of the play in 2012 after the death of Kim Jong II, when there were reports of mourners being punished for insufficient grief at his funeral.… Read More »Spilled Dictators by Andrew Rosdail
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
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
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
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
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
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 I
Wildly fun long-form improv form the minds of Brian's Beard. Smart chaos, big laughs, no scripts, and no safety nets. Our fearless players build entire worlds out of nothing but an audience suggestion. We practice fast thinking and solid scene choices to create deeply grounded scenes that take ridiculous twists and turns. Honestly, the depth… Read More »Improvised Comedic Theater
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… Read More »Fugue
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)
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 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
Minion Productions returns with a brand new show! Triple Threat is a mix of talk show, variety show & coordinated chaos. Our featured guests will present 3 skills - 1 we know they're good at, 1 we didn't know they're good at, and 1 they're *absolutely* not good at. Get to know your Rogue Festival… Read More »Triple Threat
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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