Rogue Festival

Feb 2024 17

Rogue Festival 2024

2024 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Lorie Lewis Ham, Rogue Festival

by Lorie Lewis Ham


The wonderful arts festival known as the Rogue Festival, which takes place in the Tower District of Fresno, is nearly upon us again! This year it will be running from March 1-9. While the general idea of the Festival remains the same each year, there are always subtle differences, so we took a moment to chat with the always witty Jaguar Bennett to find out what this year’s Rogue has in store for us! Hopefully, we will get him to tell us about his show this year as well!

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Feb 2024 17

Rogue Performer Previews: The Jester of All Maladies & TRUTH

2024 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Rogue Festival

by Kurt Fitzpatrick & Martin Dockery


I’m glad to be coming back to Fresno for my eleventh Rogue festival! A lot has changed since 2009 when I first was here performing Hooray for Speech Therapy. At the end of 2019, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a form of cancer that attacks the lymph nodes. Which brings me to my current show, The Jester of All Maladies, which is the story about my cancer journey from diagnosis to remission.

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Feb 2024 14

Rogue Performer Previews: Marty’s Turn & CRUSH

2024 Articles, Rogue Festival, Theatre

by Marc Gonzalez & Molly Rose-Williams


The idea for this play came from a full-length play I've been working on where the supporting character Marty dominated the script even though that play doesn't revolve around him. The original full-length play is my "Covid play," and centers around a firefighter's journey from childhood to promotion, featuring the people who helped him along the way.

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Feb 2024 10

Rogue Performer Preview: Why I wrote Robert Will Show You the Door (Tales of Being Fired)

2024 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Rogue Festival

by Susan Jeremy


Have you ever been fired? Imagine getting fired from your first job ever. That’s what happened to me when I was 16. I was working at Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips, a fast-food chain in New York, all the way from London. When I got hired, my mother told me to ask them if they had a pension. Apparently, she thought I’d have that job for a long time. It lasted three weeks. The exact reason why I was fired is a blur. The indignation that I felt at such an impressionable age would last for years to come. Little did I know that I would be fired from a series of jobs to follow for the next two decades.

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Mar 2023 25

Great Food Search: Rogue Eats 2023

2023 Articles, Rogue Festival, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, The Great Food Search

by Terrance McArthur


The 2023 Fresno Rogue Performance Festival has come and gone, but the memories remain. For The Great Food Search, some of the best memories are of food. As I went from venue to venue, reviewing strange and amazing shows, one thing became obvious: even reviewers need to eat! Since the venues for the Rogue were in the Tower District, restaurants in that area were the obvious choice for the hungry reviewer. Therefore, here is a selection of where I went and what I got for Rogue ’23.

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Mar 2023 8

Rogue Festival Reviews: Other People’s Showers/We’re Doomed/Anatomica/This Music is Making Me Thirsty/Worst. Rock and Roll. Name. Ever

2023 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Mallory Moad, Rogue Festival

by Mallory Moad


Dorian Follansbee’s Rogue show, Other People’s Showers, begins just there – in a shower. Speaking from behind a shower curtain over the sound of running water, Dorian offers musings on showers in a lengthy, charming monologue. But when she emerges, in her fuzzy bathrobe and hair in ponytails, the atmosphere changes.

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