{"id":11501,"date":"2015-07-16T21:06:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T01:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2015-08-16T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T16:19:09","slug":"2015-rochester-fringe-festival-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2015\/07\/2015-rochester-fringe-festival-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Rochester Fringe Festival Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-01.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><i>Story via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RochesterFringe.com\">Rochester Fringe Festival<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The fourth First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival (Thursday, September 17 \u2013 Saturday, September 26) announced its complete lineup this week at its annual BIG REVEAL at The Little Theatre. The 2015 Fringe will include more than 500 performances and events (up from 2014\u2019s 380) featuring all genres of art in 25+ venues in downtown Rochester, with more than 120 of them offered free of charge. The full schedule is available and all tickets are on sale as of now at <a href=\"http:\/\/RochesterFringe.com\" target=\"_blank\">RochesterFringe.com <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"406\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8eaCiwxOeYM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Fringe is calling itself \u201cunordinary,\u201d and in that spirit, has commissioned Berlin\u2019s Rimini Protokoll \u2013 a ground-breaking, award-winning, site-specific theatre company \u2013 to produce its international hit, Remote X, for Rochester \u2013 only the second U.S. city to host the show. The first took place in New York City this past March \u2013 although it has been produced in 17 major cities around the world, including Paris, Milan, Lisbon and St. Petersburg. This \u201cpedestrian-based, live art experience\u201d takes 50 people (or \u201chorde,\u201d as the show calls them) wearing headphones along a carefully planned urban route.  Remote Rochester will have 20 performances during the 10 days of Fringe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA synthetic voice in the headphones directs the movements of the horde, while music turns the cityscape into a personal film, composing a soundtrack to streets, parking garages, churches and backyards,\u201d explained Fringe Producer Erica Fee. \u201cThe whole idea of this unique tour is for audiences to discover new perspectives about their city, themselves, and reality itself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-02.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis year\u2019s big, free headliner show at Friday on the Fringe (September 18, the second night of Fringe) in Martin Luther King, Jr. Park at Manhattan Square features NYC\u2019s Grounded Aerial. With more than 30 years of combined experience in choreographing, performing, and rigging extraordinary aerial events, Grounded Aerial has appeared all over the world. U.S. highlights include performances at the Spiderman II release party, Lincoln Center, and on NBC\u2019s America\u2019s Got Talent as well as its recent I Can Do That. They will perform on the side of the 21-story HSBC Plaza as well as on the park\u2019s metal sculpture (Tribute to Man) across the street. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inside the Spiegeltent at Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-03.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe popular <a href=\"http:\/\/rochesterfringe.com\/about\/spiegeltent\" target=\"_blank\">Spiegeltent <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> returns to One Fringe Place (the festival \u201chub\u201d at corner of East Main and Gibbs Streets), but this year\u2019s magical \u201cmirror tent\u201d is The Aurora from The Netherlands. The historic treasure will leave Europe for the first time to make its US debut here, as well as providing more audience capacity than the previous Magic Crystal. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inside the Spiegeltent at Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-03b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-03b.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInside, two world-premiere shows will run throughout Fringe. Both have been created and will be hosted by Matt and Heidi Morgan, hosts of the world-renowned Las Vegas Spiegelworld show, Absinthe. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inside the Spiegeltent at Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-04.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Inside the Spiegeltent at Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inside the Spiegeltent at Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-03c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-03c.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cabinet of Wonders celebrates the eccentricities of life with comedy, contortion, aerial, feats of strength, juggling, and a one-legged tap dancer; Princess Wendy\u2019s Late Nite Tease Room features a down-and-out birthday princess in a comedy and burlesque romp for adults. <\/p>\n<p>Also in the Spiegeltent, comedian (and former Brother Wease sidekick) Jamie Lissow returns to the Fringe \u2013 previously opening for both Patton Oswalt and Jay Pharoah \u2013 for one show only on Saturday, September 19 at 9:30 p.m. Silent Disco \u2013 a total sellout each year \u2013 returns at 11 p.m. on both Fridays and Saturdays, as well as its lunchtime version that debuted last year, Brown Bag Disco, at noon on Friday, September 25.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-05.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Spiegelgarden \u2013 that urban, pop-up lounge \u2013 will be back as well, complete with fire pit, eclectic furniture, art and lighting, bar and food trucks. Free entertainment will include the return of Pedestrian Drive-In (free, outdoor movies using Silent Disco headphones). Ticketed, site-specific shows will include the return of Dashboard Dramas (taking place in four parked cars) and Bushwacked (happening in a pup tent), as well as a new addition, Hot Tub: The Musical.<\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"406\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tR5E4YopH2g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nLuke Kempner\u2019s award-winning impressions comedy, Upside Downton, comes to Rochester direct from London\u2019s West End. In this hilarious parody, he recreates more than 30 Downton Abbey and celebrity characters. The London Daily Telegraph called it a \u201cremarkable tour de force.\u201d Performances are Friday &#038; Saturday, September 25 &#038; 26 at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Kilbourn Hall this year: the return of the free and very popular Gospel Sunday on Sunday, September 20 at 2 p.m. Pastor Melvin Cross, Jr. and Glory House International will headline, along with gospel recording artist, Lewis Banks. Adding to this afternoon of elation will be Lady Natasha House and the Dance Ministry of the Eagles Network International, representing churches from all over Rochester. <\/p>\n<p>Free entertainment \u2013 bands, show highlights, Chalk Art, food and beverage vendors, street entertainers, etc. \u2013 will take place on Gibbs Street for two weekends this year for the first time: Saturday (3-11 p.m.) and Sunday (1-7 p.m.), September 19 &#038; 20; and Friday (5-11 p.m.) and Saturday (3-11 p.m.), September 25 &#038; 26. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" rel=\"lightbox-fringFest2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/rochester-fringe-festival-2015-06.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Rochester Fringe Festival [IMAGE: RochesterFringe.com]\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhile the Fringe curates the above headliners as well as all free outdoor entertainment, the vast majority of its 500+ performances and events are productions that were submitted by artists to venues by April 22, 2015, and then chosen to be presented at Fringe by those venues. Rochester\u2019s \u201cbifurcated\u201d Fringe adds four new venues this year: Abilene, The Strong, the new Lyric Theatre, and RAPA at School of the Arts. They join existing Fringe venues: Bernunzio Uptown Music, Blackfriars Theatre, Eastman School of Music\u2019s Kilbourn Hall and Sproull Atrium, Gallery r, Garth Fagan Dance Studio, George Eastman House\u2019s Dryden Theatre, Geva Theatre Center\u2019s Fielding Stage, Java\u2019s Caf\u00e9, The Little, MuCCC, Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo), TheatreROCS Stage and Writers &#038; Books.<\/p>\n<p>Other important contributors to Fringe are area institutions of higher education \u2013 the biggest reason that the festival is held in the fall. The University of Rochester including the Eastman School of Music, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Geneseo, The College at Brockport and Nazareth College all have partnerships with \u2013 and student\/faculty shows in \u2013 Fringe.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin:20px 0px 20px 0px;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/div>\n<h3>Ticket Info<\/h3>\n<p>Ticket prices for the venue-curated shows range from $3-$25 ($10 average), set by the venues themselves. A very limited number of Fringe Fanatic Passes are available for $190. They include all Spiegeltent shows this year as well as Remote Rochester \u2013 only Upside Downton is not included. BUY EARLY AND SAVE! Spiegeltent single tickets range from $7 (Brown Bag Disco) to $182 (VIP booth), increasing in price on 9\/14; Remote Rochester tickets are $25 ($28 on 9\/14); Upside Downton: $31 ($34 on 9\/14). Tickets are also available by phone at <nobr>(585) 957-9837<\/nobr> (additional phone fees apply). Tickets will be available in person at the Spiegeltent Box Office (One Fringe Place, corner of Gibbs &#038; Main Sts.) beginning Sunday, September 13; and at venues (if available) starting one hour prior to performance. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin:20px 0px 20px 0px;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/div>\n<h3>Volunteers Wanted<\/h3>\n<p>Fringe 2015 is looking for volunteers to usher, scan tickets, help with production and pre-production activities, etc. Volunteers receive a Fringe t-shirt and qualify for a free ticket to select Fringe shows by volunteering for eight hours or more. Those interested should fill out <a href=\"http:\/\/rochesterfringe.com\/help-out\/volunteer\" target=\"_blank\">the application here <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"position: relative; top: 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link.gif\" alt=\"external link\" width=\"15\" height=\"11\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:volunteer@rochesterfringe.com\">volunteer@rochesterfringe.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin:20px 0px 20px 0px;\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story via Rochester Fringe Festival The fourth First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival (Thursday, September 17 \u2013 Saturday, September 26) announced its complete lineup this week at its annual BIG REVEAL at The Little Theatre. 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