At Sunday’s Tea Party at the End of the World, creator and performer Jessica Creane introduced the 28-person audience in the Garden Studio to a pu-erh leaf tea aged 70 years. She described it as a tea that, as soon as it seems to be losing its flavor, surprises you.…
Posts published in September 2026
Rochester Overture caught two unconventional sonic collaborations at Sunday's Rochester Fringe Festival, featuring local musicians.
From comedian heckling to a musical revue about baseball to Broadway songs that got the axe before making it to the stage, the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival had plenty to offer. Rochester Overture writers caught several shows on Friday and Saturday, some of which you can still see later today.
Modern circus is more than red-nosed clowns with painted faces, buffoonery, and freak acts. At Rochester Fringe’s Circus in the City on Friday evening, circus was a profound social message, an interior experience, a whimsical journey, and even breezy fun.
The "Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man..." was an absorbing and amusing sociological experiment that proved that, in the end, we are more kind than cruel. Read more about the "most Dada entry" at this year's Rochester Fringe.