Rogue Theater Festival Showcases Diversity of Stage Arts

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Parent Category: Film and the Arts

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Published on Saturday, 02 August 2025 12:37

Written by Brad Balfour

With a range of performing arts such as plays, spoken word, musicals, magic, dancing, and much much more, the Rogue Theater Festival returns for its seventh installment. Running August 4th to 10th at the Flea Theater and online at Cur8   the festival will showcase 37 original plays and musicals, including fully staged productions, short plays, staged readings, and digital streaming performances

The festival’s diverse lineup explores a wide range of themes, such as the LGBTQIA+ experience, the pursuit of the American dream, World War II, death and grief, and life in New York City—including stories set in Queens, Brooklyn, and a haunted house in Staten Island. 

Plays include Beto's Interview by Julio Lourido, Directed by Eric Paeper, which challenges the idealized notion of the American Dream by exploring the complexities of immigration and the psychological dynamics between two immigrants from different backgrounds. Overlap by Erin Proctor, Directed by Dante Piro is a tragic rom-com about theatre-makers thwarted by the infrastructure of the MTA, as we follow two twenty-somethings navigating  minimum wage jobs, mommy issues, grief, and producing theatre from beyond the grave.

RTF founder Allison Hohman shared what inspired her to create the festival, “Rogues namesake came from the mission of exploring what a theater festival could be. I wanted to create a space that could allow theater of all different forms to grow and that could make room for creators of all different experience levels to see their work on stage. Rogue is a self proclaimed mom and pops festival experience where support and individual attention are number one”.

To learn more, go to: https://www.roguetheaterfestival.com/

Rogue Theater Festival
August 4 - 10, 2025

The Flea Theater
20 Thomas Street
New York, NY 10007

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