Rogue 2016

Feb 2016 20

Are You Rogueing This Year?

2016 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Mallory Moad

by Mallory Moad

‘Rogueing' isn't a dance move, fad diet, or the latest hip exercise program. Simply put, it's attending performances at Fresno's Rogue Performance Festival, commonly known as just “the Rogue.” Although its popularity has continued to increase, there are still people around here who haven't heard of this showcase of independent performance. If you are a member of that group, you've been missing out on one of the most innovative events in Fresno, so keep reading. If you're a Rogue regular, you know what I'm talking about, but keep reading anyway.

Feb 2016 20

Rogue Festival 2016: How I managed to break “Hamlet”

2016 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Tim Mooney

Since 1997, I’ve had this love affair going on with the works of Molière. Starting with Tartuffe, I began writing new English variations of his plays in rhymed iambic pentameter. Re-writing The Miser, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Imaginary Invalid, The Misanthrope, and about a dozen others, I seemed to have found my niche in life…writing and, eventually, performing Molière’s plays, often playing the roles that he himself played 350 years ago. It was a short leap from there to creating my first one-man show, Molière than Thou. I’ve been touring Molière than Thou since the Fall of 2002.

Feb 2016 20

Rogue Festival 2016: Black Wool Jacket

2016 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Nat Vickers

The first time a nightclub patron lost their coat check ticket on my watch, he looked me straight in the eyes, smiled innocently, and snarled, “Listen. If you don’t find my coat right now, I will come back there, and turn you into a coat, got it?!”

Feb 2016 20

Rogue Festival 2016: Is Your Therapist Near A Bakery?

2016 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Susan Gill

Is Your Therapist Near A Bakery? started out as a funny story I told at a birthday roast for my son on his 24th birthday. Considering that my father was a serial suicide attempter, who “had the urge, but not the talent for suicide,” my sister had a borderline personality that always wandered over the border, and my brother’s story is too dark to tell until the end of the show, the humor throughout the piece is surprising and welcomed. The audience cries a little knowing a laugh will arrive in the next minute.

Feb 2016 13

Rogue Festival 2016: Red Hot Mama

2016 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Music

by Melanie Gall

When you hear the name Sophie Tucker, what comes to mind?
The eccentric older woman who appeared regularly on the Ed Sullivan Show; the real-life subject of the tribute show that launched Bette Midler’s career; the famous vaudevillian who influenced Ethel Merman, Joan Rivers, and Carol Channing?

Feb 2016 11

Rogue Festival 2016: Terror on the High Seas

2016 Articles, Arts & Entertainment

by Les Kurkendaal

Los Angeles based Actor/Storyteller Les Kurkendaal is bringing his brand new solo comedy show Terror on The High Seas to the Rogue Festival. This is the fourth year in a row that Kurkendaal will be performing at the Rogue. The show is the story about how he goes on a cruise to Alaska with his boyfriend and his boyfriend's family and the ups and downs of dealing with his in-laws.