The Rogue Festival is here! Here are more of our Rogue Festival show reviews! There will be many more to come! We also have several Rogue Performer Preview articles that have been going up over the last few weeks.
Joey Rinaldi is a comedian. He has lots of stories to tell, so he puts the titles on a board and lets the audience choose what he should tell next. Some stories are his favorites, some are pretty good, and some are brand new (He’s still working on them).
I’m really excited to be performing at the Rogue Festival for the first time! My solo piece Beyond Belief took shape over the last year as I mulled over a couple of related themes. In the wake of election chaos, global warming, and other polarizing issues, I (like a lot of people) have been trying to figure out Why THOSE People Believe Such CRAZY Things…
Since I started doing stand-up comedy in New York City in 2016, everything I've worked towards has led to my newest solo show, Too Many Stories. As a stand-up comedian, I have always been driven to connect with my audience on a deeper level, but it was not easy at first. I have come a long way from telling shock value jokes in the early days of my career.
I was giving my brother a book for his birthday about a sea captain to whom we might or might not be related. I skimmed through the pages and was stopped by this account.
After the death of both parents, and some other losses, I felt compelled to write a storytelling/solo performance show titled Ashes to Ashes: A Tragicomedy. It’s an exploration of my ability to land on my feet after adversity, and how I’m able to reinvent myself time and time again. In 2013, I wrote a solo performance show for the Rogue Festival that was in response to a series of misfortunes I had experienced the year before.
I’m very excited to reactivate my frequent flyer account and make my way across the continent to the Rogue Festival. (For my eighth time!) It’s still winter here in Brooklyn, but there will be flowers blooming in Fresno. I have no allergies. Let’s do this.
I am returning to the Rogue Festival with a revamped version of my show The Real Black Swann Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen. This is the story of William Dorsey Swann, former slave, who became the “Queen of Drag” in the late 1800s. She was also the first queer activist of record.
My latest solo theater work, my fourth, I believe isn’t something that you will see very often. It’s a dog story.
You may ask, but what is it exactly? Is it that you love your dog? Is it also that your dog loves you? Or is it also that the dog makes your life more interesting because he brings you in contact with other people?
I am nearly 35 years old and have been doing acrobatics since the age of four. I started with gymnastics, like many four-year-olds. Then, at six years old, I started going to SF Circus Center for acrobatics classes, and that was the real beginning. I am American, born and raised in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco. But I was trained in Chinese acrobatics, a distinct style that was brought to America by the world-renowned circus trainer, Master Lu Yi.
