Rochester Fringe 2026
Tue, Sep 15, 2026 – Sat, Sep 26, 2026
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Categories
15 Things You Didn't Know About Bigfoot
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
21: A Tribute to Adele
Music · 1 showing
3AM Theatre
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 4 showings
4 Idiots and a Bottle: 4th Time's a Charm
Comedy · 1 showing
9th Avenue Street Circus
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
A Funk Affair
Music · 1 showing
A Magic Problem!
Comedy · 2 showings
A Magician—by Jordan Rooks
Theatre · 2 showings
A Modern Marriage: A Disco Rock-Opera
Music · 1 showing
A Pete Seeger Tribute
Music · 8 showings
A Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for Fifty-Six Minutes and Then Leaves
Comedy · 1 showing
Across the Sea: Finding My Voice
Music · 1 showing
All The Blues You Can Use: Bill Schmitt and the Bluesmasters
Music · 2 showings
All These Pretty Things
Music · 3 showings
All Walls
Dance · 1 showing
And Now ... with Extra Bits
Dance · 2 showings
Another Middle Earth Press Conference
Theatre · 3 showings
Anti-Gone
Theatre · 4 showings
Araspel
Music · 4 showings
At the Masquerade Ball
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 4 showings
BELONG by Gianna Stewart
Visual Arts & Film · 11 showings
BIODANCE's 20th Anniversary
Dance · 2 showings
Baby Jane, Baby Jane
Theatre · 3 showings
Banjos & Juggling: A World Vaudeville Adventure
Music · 1 showing
Battle Royale Improv Tournament
Improv · 4 showings
Beatriz at Dinner
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Bella and the Witch
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Belly Dance: On The Edge of Wonderland
Dance · 2 showings
Bennie Jaye "Polishing My Craft" Songs Set to Poems by Martha Kelch
Music · 2 showings
Best Films! RIT School of Film and Animation
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Between Flesh & Faith
Spoken Word · 1 showing
Blackout Bingo
Comedy · 3 showings
Brazilian Jazz Quartet
Music · 2 showings
Brick City Boppers Showcase
Dance · 1 showing
Bright Half Life
Theatre · 2 showings
Bright Threads
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Broadguess
Comedy · 2 showings
Bushwhacked Big Boozy Joy Fun Time Revival
Comedy · 3 showings
Bushwhacked Big Joy Fun Time Revival
Comedy · 7 showings
Bushwhacked: Tim and Pammy Shea’s Pamper Camper
Comedy · 17 showings
Captain America: Brave New World
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Cardio Charleston
Dance · 1 showing
Carmen Adores Drag Roulette ALL STARS
Music · 1 showing
Catharsis Time!
Comedy · 2 showings
Charming Disaster's Musical Oracle
Music · 3 showings
Chile and Chocolate
Music · 2 showings
Cirque du Fringe: Anchors Away
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 12 showings
Cloudy with a Chance of Science: A Night of Science, Weather, and Humor
Comedy · 1 showing
Clutter Is My Life Partner
Theatre · 2 showings
Cobbs Hill Consort
Music · 2 showings
Coldwater Blues
Music · 1 showing
Comedy Is A Drag
Drag · 2 showings
Comedy Therapy
Comedy · 1 showing
ComedySportz Buffalo
Comedy · 1 showing
Comics Art Slideshow
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Commotion Dance Theater and Friends
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Composers' Concert, Featuring Eastman Student Composers
Music · 1 showing
Conspiracy Council
Comedy · 2 showings
Contra Dancing
Dance · 1 showing
Courtyard
Music · 1 showing
Craft Roulette
Kids Fringe · 5 showings
Cupid's Boomerang
Music · 2 showings
DANDELION
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
DIY Oracle Card: Design Your Future
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
DRAGMASTER
Drag · 2 showings
Daddy Strong Legs
Comedy · 4 showings
Dads for Democracy
Comedy · 1 showing
Daniel Cainer: What Am I, Chopped Liver?
Music · 2 showings
Dashboard Dramas XII
Comedy · 22 showings
David Kilimnick: Thoughts From A Waiting Room
Comedy · 2 showings
Dealbreaker
Theatre · 2 showings
Dear Evan Hansen
Theatre · 2 showings
Deep Fields: A Synambient Journey
Music · 3 showings
Desert Rhythms Belly Dance
Dance · 1 showing
Dick Tracy - Live Radio Drama Double Feature
Theatre · 4 showings
Dinner Where Everything Goes Wrong
Theatre · 1 showing
Dirk Darrow: Magic of Future Past
Comedy · 4 showings
Disco Kids
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue presents The Saints
Theatre · 4 showings
Documentary Short Films: RIT Photojournalism
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Dram-o-cracy
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Dust Bowl Faeries: The Cloven Pendulum, A Gothic Murder Mystery
Music · 3 showings
EcoVibes - Oil and Water Don’t Mix
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Eight Beat Measure and Vocal Accent
Music · 1 showing
Emo Yoga
Music · 1 showing
Eno and Dan French DEUX
Comedy · 1 showing
Et al. - Queerky Science on the Fringe
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Europa at the International Plaza
Music · 1 showing
Extra Credit Comedy
Comedy · 1 showing
Extra Ordinary
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Fairy Magic
Kids Fringe · 2 showings
Fine Art and Fabulous Paper with Bill Finewood
Visual Arts & Film · 11 showings
Flotsam & Jetsam by Big Teeth Collective
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 4 showings
Folk Music From Around the World
Music · 4 showings
Forest Music
Music · 1 showing
Fowl Play at Fringe
Comedy · 1 showing
Freeze Frame: A Juggling Experience!
Kids Fringe · 2 showings
Frequency and Flow
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Fringe - A Festival for the City
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Fringe Street Beat
Dance · 1 showing
From Swing to Spain to Spotify
Music · 2 showings
From the Depths
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 3 showings
Funkyard Brass Band
Music · 1 showing
Game Show! Game Show! Game Show!: A Games Show
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Garth Fagan Dance
Dance · 4 showings
Glitch Video Game Band
Music · 1 showing
Gospel Sunday
Music · 1 showing
Ground Zero
Theatre · 1 showing
Guilt & Mirrors Improv Troupe
Improv · 2 showings
Hairspray (1988)
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Hamnet
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Hands Tell What Voices Cannot
Theatre · 1 showing
Have I ever told you about...?
Spoken Word · 2 showings
Hephaestus
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Hungry Ghost
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
I Can(not) Undo My Being
Dance · 1 showing
I Don't Get It...
Comedy · 2 showings
Ian Campbell
Music · 1 showing
If Music Be the Food
Music · 1 showing
Illumina
Theatre · 4 showings
In His Own Words: An Evening With Robert Frost
Theatre · 4 showings
Indie Books & Zine Fair
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Inescapable by Martin Dockery
Theatre · 2 showings
Invisible No More
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
It’s About Time!
Kids Fringe · 3 showings
Jackboxxing
Comedy · 2 showings
Jake Wark
Music · 1 showing
Joe Fonda and Bass of Operations
Music · 1 showing
John Terlazzo - Singer/Songwriter/Poet /Storyteller
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Johnny Dowd
Music · 4 showings
Josh Owen
Visual Arts & Film · 4 showings
Juggle Jam by the Rochester Juggling Club
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Just To Be Close To You
Comedy · 11 showings
Just the Two of Us/Connie Fredericks-Malone and Scott Bradley
Music · 1 showing
Kids Chalk Art
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
LIKAH!
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
La Diva de L'Empire
Music · 1 showing
Lake Ontario: A Body in Light
Visual Arts & Film · 2 showings
Latin Rhythm Dance Club
Dance · 1 showing
Les Enfants Terribles: A Gameshow for Awful Children
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
Life and Death in Cowboy Country
Theatre · 2 showings
Lindy Jam
Dance · 1 showing
Liz Hogg
Music · 1 showing
Lost to Me by Circus EVO
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 4 showings
Love Songs in Winter
Music · 4 showings
Lunatics Lounge, Live
Comedy · 2 showings
Lyrical Grooves
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
MASS DRAG: How the Church Blessed Gay Couples—Again
Theatre · 4 showings
Madelein Murphy: Lesbian American Princess
Comedy · 2 showings
Many Rivers Band
Music · 1 showing
Marcel Lucont's Whine List
Comedy · 3 showings
Martin Dockery: Wanderlust
Comedy · 3 showings
Microbiome Murder Mystery!
Comedy · 1 showing
Mid-Century Modern Jazz Quartet
Music · 1 showing
Miles Davis Animated
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Miller and the Other Sinners
Music · 1 showing
Misery Loves Company
Comedy · 3 showings
Mister Aubs.
Spoken Word · 3 showings
Mouth Harpo's Final First Fringe Tour II: Electric Boogaloo
Comedy · 2 showings
Movie Night
Comedy · 1 showing
Music That'll Move Ya'!
Music · 2 showings
Musica Nova & Eastman Percussion Ensemble Joint Concert—All Steve Reich
Music · 1 showing
National Day of Play
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
National Day of Play - Parcel 5
Kids Fringe · 2 showings
Nerds in a Basement
Comedy · 2 showings
Noise in Neon—The Mandela Effect
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Obsidian Star
Music · 2 showings
On Birds and Caves
Dance · 1 showing
On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Theatre · 2 showings
Out of Sync
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Ozma Bemshi!
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
PITCH!
Music · 1 showing
Pete Davidson
Comedy · 1 showing
Platform Seven
Theatre · 2 showings
Playing Siege 2: The Game Inside
Theatre · 2 showings
Pluck Yeah! Renaissance & Baroque Hits
Music · 2 showings
Poetry of Tarot: A Reading Inspired by Tarot Images
Spoken Word · 1 showing
Port-a-Globe Punch and Judy
Kids Fringe · 3 showings
Powder Jay
Music · 1 showing
Proof of Purchase, Grace Notes and Kaminari
Music · 1 showing
Public Service Announcement
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Pumpkin Painting
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
RIT Improv
Improv · 1 showing
RIT Players Presents: When Jack Met Jill
Comedy · 1 showing
RITPO - Chamber Music Showcase
Music · 1 showing
ROC'ing the Streets - A Downtown Music Crawl
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
ROCeltic: Myths, Legends, and Folklore
Dance · 1 showing
RPO @ Fringe: Contemporary Works with Theremin
Music · 1 showing
Rich The Magic Man Total Pandemonium Magic Show
Kids Fringe · 2 showings
Ricky Ford Quartet
Music · 1 showing
Roaring 20s Time Machine
Dance · 1 showing
Roc City Circus on Gibbs Street
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Roc River Ride
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Rochester City Ballet: Two Tales of Dr. Seuss
Dance · 2 showings
Ruby's High School Reunion
Theatre · 6 showings
Róisín Dubh
Music · 1 showing
SOTA Screen Serenades - School of the Arts Vocal Cabaret
Music · 1 showing
Samuel Clemens: Tales of Mark Twain
Theatre · 4 showings
Sanctified Sauna
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 22 showings
Script-in-Hand Players
Theatre · 4 showings
Seafaring Songs & Pirate Shanties
Music · 4 showings
Shibari
Dance · 2 showings
Shootin Starzz Showcase: Resurrection—The Rise of a Star
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Shotspeare
Comedy · 5 showings
Signatures & Wordsmiths Open Mic
Spoken Word · 1 showing
Silent Disco
Dance · 4 showings
Silver Rein II: A Goth-Folk Music Experience
Music · 2 showings
Sister Midnight
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Skybound Takedown
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 3 showings
Sleepy Lester and the Insomniacs
Music · 1 showing
SleepyTime Concerts
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
Small Talk Theater
Theatre · 1 showing
Sock Puppet Secrets
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Solitude
Visual Arts & Film · 2 showings
Songs for Every Age, All at the Same Time
Music · 1 showing
Songs in the Key of Eastman: Casey Jones Costello Sings Songs of the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
Music · 2 showings
Songs to Drink Wine to: Prosecco Edition
Music · 2 showings
Sorry 4 Da Weight
Comedy · 4 showings
Sound Signal
Music · 1 showing
Sound of Sanctuary (SOS)
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Soup du Journalism: 25 Years of Deadline Drama
Comedy · 2 showings
Spicy Tarot
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Spirit Songs: Parte Dos
Music · 1 showing
Spirits
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Stage Coaches
Comedy · 2 showings
Stages Stardust Diner
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Stages of the Game Teen Improv Troupe
Improv · 2 showings
Stand Up for Drag
Drag · 2 showings
Stand-Up Through the Ages
Comedy · 4 showings
Steve Hahn - Music for Chapman Stick
Music · 3 showings
Stew Cutler and Friends
Music · 1 showing
Sub-Zero Science
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
Sugar Nova
Music · 2 showings
Summer Break by Flip Fabrique
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 4 showings
Surround Sound, Brick City Singers and Encore
Music · 1 showing
TETRA Dance: Throughlines
Dance · 1 showing
Table For Two & Friends
Dance · 2 showings
Tales From The Bush
Dance · 1 showing
Tarot Cabaret
Theatre · 3 showings
Tea Party at the End of the World
Theatre · 11 showings
Thank You Kiss Presents: Please Excusememe
Comedy · 2 showings
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Theatre · 2 showings
The ABBA Reunion Tribute Show
Music · 2 showings
The B-Sides of Broadway: A Cabaret of Cut Songs
Music · 2 showings
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
The Belly Dance Bazaar
Dance · 2 showings
The Dancing Viola
Music · 1 showing
The Dice Is Right!
Theatre · 3 showings
The Ego & The Oracle
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
The Fiddle Witch
Music · 2 showings
The First Jew in Canada
Theatre · 2 showings
The GateSwingers Big Band
Music · 1 showing
The Gator
Theatre · 2 showings
The Geriactors Return
Theatre · 2 showings
The Good "Old" Days
Music · 2 showings
The King of Staten Island
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
The Mothman Cometh
Theatre · 2 showings
The Night of 1000 Johns: An Alternative Comedy Show
Comedy · 1 showing
The Nocturne Club
Dance · 1 showing
The Old Ball Game: Live-Scored Baseball Silent Films
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
The Pieces by Aloft
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 4 showings
The Roustabouts
Comedy · 2 showings
The Russell Beckett Show
Theatre · 2 showings
The Sacred and Profane: Two Sides of 1920s Popular Music
Music · 2 showings
The Sights and Sounds District
Spoken Word · 3 showings
The Trivia Guy
Theatre · 2 showings
The Velvet Noose
Theatre · 3 showings
The Vierling Duo
Music · 2 showings
The Volition Project
Dance · 1 showing
The Wedding Singer
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
The Woman King
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
The estate sale
Comedy · 3 showings
This City Will Eat You Alive
Theatre · 3 showings
This is Spinal Tap
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Thomas Warfield: Let the Music Heal You
Music · 1 showing
Threads of Motion
Dance · 1 showing
Three Short Stories - A Puppet Show
Kids Fringe · 2 showings
Tiger Steel Steelband Ensemble
Music · 1 showing
Titanic: Music From and About the Unsinkable Ship
Music · 1 showing
Tribute to Sinatra and Las Vegas
Music · 1 showing
Trivia CITY: An Arts & Culture Quiz
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing
Twinkle twinkle little star
Kids Fringe · 1 showing
Uncle Shoehorn's Big Easy
Music · 3 showings
Unleashed! Improv Presents: Other People's Shows
Improv · 1 showing
Velocity: RIT's Urban Dance Crew
Dance · 1 showing
Versa Style Street Dance Company
Dance · 2 showings
Vocal Point with the YellowJackets
Music · 2 showings
Voices from Ellis Island
Theatre · 2 showings
Voices from the Resistance
Theatre · 3 showings
WADAIKO Performance
Music · 1 showing
WHELMED!
Theatre · 3 showings
Waiting for Guffman
Visual Arts & Film · 1 showing
Wander & Wonder VI
Dance · 1 showing
Warhol: Bullet Karma
Theatre · 3 showings
Well-Balanced Dads
Theatre · 3 showings
Window Scrolling
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 2 showings
Wizard and a Fool Magic Show
Comedy · 2 showings
Your Fringe Wedding
Multidisciplinary & Circus · 1 showing