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'A little world of weirdness and absurdity': EstroFest returns to Rochester Fringe

Top row, from left: Norma Holland and Dresden Engle. Bottom row, from left: Freyda Schneider, Andrea Holland and Allison Roberts.
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Top row, from left: Norma Holland and Dresden Engle. Bottom row, from left: Freyda Schneider, Andrea Holland and Allison Roberts.

EstroFestis back in front of live audiences this weekend, and the ladies are ready.

"I prefer to create sort of like a little world of weirdness and absurdity,” said Allison Roberts. “That's just what I love doing."

It’s been two years since the all-women comedy troupe last performed in front of live audiences. They're returning as part of the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival.

They’re playing two shows: 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the JCC’s Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave.

Click on the LISTEN link above to hear Roberts and Freyda Schneider talk about creating comedy and performing in the time of COVID-19.

Beth Adams joined WXXI as host of Morning Edition in 2012 after a more than two-decade radio career. She was the longtime host of the WHAM Morning News in Rochester. Her career also took her from radio stations in Elmira, New York, to Miami, Florida.