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Originally built by and named Elephant Theatre Asylum. It has been owned, operated and re-named Theatre Asylum since 2007 by Combined Artform,who starting in Jan 2010 also runs the joining Lab space. |
HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2011
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LOS ANGELES COMEDY FESTIVAL - SPOTLIGHT SERIES Wed @ 8pm
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IMPROVATORIUM
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DAVID RAZOWSKY Drop in class Thursdays 4-7pm |
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OUR SAN FRANCISCO CONNECTION
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965 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94103 2 black box theaters with multi-media capabilities for
Built in 2004 by Combined Artform, Off Market is now managed by PianoFight who are also co-partners with Combined Artform. |
THEATRE ASYLUM & LAB
IMPROVATORIUM IS BACK AT THE ASYLUM IN MAY
FRIDAYS @ 8PM SATURDAYS @ 8PM
Improvatorium makes Friday nights laugh filled evenings of improv madness with the return of “Pure Improv".
“Wholly Bibble!” is Improvatorium’s take on completely made up Old Testament styled stories. Costumed, but fully improvised, the cast will turn audience suggestions into cautionary tales, history that didn’t happen, and maybe a forgotten prophecy or two.
Directed by Patrick Bristow
Produced with Combined Artform/Theatre Asylum
Featuring: Grant Baciocco, Kevin Berntson, Gareth Berrow, Patrick Bristow, Jayne Entwistle, Peggy Etra, Alison Mork, Chris Sheets, Henry Watkins and
Vanessa Whitney
PURE IMPROV - ONLINE TICKETS
WHOLLY BIBBLE - ONLINE TICKETS
COMING IN JUNE
Tickets are on sale now at www.hollywoodfringe.org
PRESS WEEK OPENS ON JUNE 9th.
HOLLYWOOD FRINGE RUNS JUNE 14 - 24
Complete schedule coming soon!!!
Hope to see you at the Fringe.
LONESOME NO MORE IS BACK!!!
Previews - March 23-24 @ 8pm
Special Press Night - March 25 @ 8pm
March 30 - April 28
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm
Moments after their respective deaths, three strangers find themselves locked up in a single room in Sartre’s NO EXIT, faced with a maddening new world in which they can cover their eyes but never sleep
Directed and adapted by Lori Petermann
Translation by Paul Bowles
Produced by Dana Murphy and Meghan McCauley
CAST:
Jake Bern
Stephen Leonhard Sullivan
Sara Garcia
Jill Evyn
EXTENDED THROUGH MARCH 31
Just Nominated for 2 LA Weekly Theatre Awards!!
"Best Comedy Ensemble" and "Best Adaptation".
After a sold out and critically acclaimed West Coast Premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Her Majesty's Secret Players return with an extended run of Pulp Shakespeare, produced with Combined Artform at the Theatre Asylum beginning January 12th.
Playing Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Sunday's at 2:00 PM, you won't want to miss what LA Stage and Cinema hailed as "thrilling, exciting, and hysterical" and what LA Weekly gave a GO! and called "..an appealing and unexpectedly harrowing drama."
"This lively and imaginative re-invention" (LA Weekly) imagines what it might be like had the cult film “Pulp Fiction” been written by William Shakespeare.
Set in Elizabethan England, Pulp Shakespeare weaves the story of a pair of murderers, their boss’s alluring wife, and a desperate knight, all brought to life by a cast of acclaimed Los Angeles Shakespearean actors.
TICKETS
$25 at the Door.
Beginnings is the Los Angeles Playwrights Lab’s first production of original shorts:
The Disconnect by MEREDITH SIMONDS: A recently-widowed woman tries to rewrite the history of her 35-year marriage through the social media-saturated love lives of her three grown daughters. Directed by Lisa Pelikan, and starring Ann Bronston as Pam, and Heather Long, Jennifer Pollono, and Joy Darash as her daughters.
RUNNING FEBRUARY 9 - MARCH 30 IN ASYLUM LAB
THUR-SAT @ 8PM, SUN @ 7PM
MINE
by award-winning playwright Bekah Brunstetter
Little Beast Theatre Company is set to present the Los Angeles Premiere of MINE, written by Bekah Brunstetter and directed by Dep Kirkland and starring Sam Daly, Adam Harrington and Kieren Van Den Blink.
MINE is a universal coming of age around 30-ish story that takes place in Manhattan.
TICKETS
Theatre Asylum Celebrates St. Patrick's Weekend
...with two critical "Best of" Hollywood Fringe Winners and now well Toured with further raves and rewards. They return now to the Asylum to get kick off the weekend of St Paddy.
MARCH 16 @ 8pm - The Bad Arm: Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer
MARCH 17 @ 4pm- OVER THERE: Comedy is his Best Weapon
TICKETS -$15
“OVER THERE: Comedy is His Best Weapon” illustrates the hardship and hilarity of PJ Walsh’s journey. As a screw-up kid, Walsh enlists never expecting to go to war. After three wars, a stint as Bill Clinton’s dental technician, and a career in stand-up comedy, he discovers what matters in life as he faces mortality in the belly of a C-130 plane flying over Afghanistan. .www.overtheresoloshow.com
Winner - Best Of Hollywood Fringe Festival - 2011
Winner - Best Of San Francisco Fringe Festival - 2011
Looser - Of My Virginity To An Easy Girl - 1986
TICKETS - $15
The Bad Arm – Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer
An ANTIDOTE TO RIVERDANCE with Raw rhythms, tall tales, arse-clenching comedy
The Bad Arm – Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer is an uproarious drama comedy by Máire Clerkin, directed by Dan O’Connor. Following critically acclaimed performances in Hollywood, Santa Monica, Chicago, Dublin and New York; the laugh-till-you-cry show returns to Los Angeles at last.
Clerkin jumps in and out of hornpipe shoes in a provocative account of being English in Ireland, Irish in England and a pink-haired punk in a grey city.
‘Glorious riffs of Irish dance… animated impersonations and snapshot transitions…a world Clerkin captures so meticulously - GO” Stephen Leigh Morris, LA Weekly
“At times poignant and at times hysterically funny.” Brooke Alberts, Folkworks
“Clerkin is a gifted writer-actor.” Dany Margolies, Backstage – Critic’s Pick
“Clerkin jigs among various accents and precise characterizations with ease”.
Zachary Whittenburg, Time Out, Chicago
“A show filled with moments of clarity, insight, loose morals and moral victories…this classic underdog tale a bittersweet joy to watch”.
Scott Stiffler, Downtown Express, New York
“An entertaining, informative blend of storytelling… makes for a fine time of theater”
Melanie N. Lee, NYTheatre.com
“The Bad Arm of a sure foot…it's the deep dish from the real deal”.
Gwen Orel, New York Irish Arts
OPENING JANUARY 6th - ASYLUM LAB
Originally slated for one weekend in 2009, this 12 character tour de force, ended a 9 month run at the Beverly Hills Playhouse (BHP) in Beverly Hills California and continues to be the longest running show in the history of that theatre company. Written, directed, and performed by Braxton, the show has won several awards including a 2010 NAACP National Theatre Award.
TICKETS - $22 General, $18 Students/Seniors
PAST PRODUCTIONS AT THE ASYLUM
ELEPHANT THEATRE COMPANY’S SMASH HIT PRODUCTION
LOVE SICK BY KRISTINA POE
RE-OPENS AT ELEPHANT STAGES/THEATRE ASYLUM
12 PERFORMANCES ONLY, NOVEMBER 18 - DECEMBER 17
Due to ongoing popular demand, the Elephant Theatre Company’s smash hit world premiere production of Love Sick by Kristina Poe, directed by David Fofi, will re-open at Elephant Stages/Theatre Asylum for 12 performances only, beginning Friday, November 18 at 8pm. Theatre Asylum is next door to the Elephant Space, where the show completed its original run on November 5.
Love Sick is a graphic tale which follows one woman's dark and comic quest for revenge. When Emily's happily ever after comes crashing down, she embarks on a journey of seduction, power, coercion and self-discovery which quickly descends into a riddled web of mysterious and alluring encounters. Playwright Kristina Poe wrote Love Sick, her first play, as a member of LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City.
Holiday Edition!
December 3rd, 10th and 17th. @ 8pm
Asylum Lab
1078 Lillian Way
Improvatorium is at it again! The company that brought you "Zombience" and "Hitchcocked," brings you three Saturdays of hilarious holiday short form improv at Theatre Asylum, December 3, 10 and 17th
In a town awash with Long Form, Cage Matches, Teams and Competitions, Improvatroium dares to stick out its improvisational neck to return to improvised scenes, songs, extended scenes, and maybe one or two of those traditional improv "games" that are now almost considered retro! And now all with a special holiday twist! Come be merry and fill the night with your own Ho, Ho, Ho's!
Directed by Patrick Bristow (Whose Line Is It Anyway? & Henson’s “Stuffed and Unstrung”), the rotating cast will feature:
For more information visit – www.improvatorium.com
Combined Artform co-presents
TICKETS - $10
Lonesome No More! Theatre presents Making Love Over There, a new play created with New York-based director and playwright Tom Dugdale. Making Love Over There has nine performances over three weeks at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
Making Love Over There is a series of almost twenty thematically similar but non-linear short works featuring several original songs and musical compositions. The play’s structure is modeled after art museum exhibitions; every scene is a new thing, each transition between characters and setting resets the stage for a fresh story. Together, actors Patrick Riley and Zoe Chao portray dozens of characters of varying ages and nationalities in different places, times, and states of mind, all of whom are searching in one way or another to rediscover what love is and regain their faith in it
Co-Produced with Theatre Asylum / Combined Artform
TICKETS - $15
After a great run at the Hollywood Fringe Fest, “Life in the Middle Ages” was voted “Best of the Fest” and will extend its run through September. Strictly speaking to and for those experiencing middle age, the show actually comes with the following caution, “WARNING: THIS SHOW IS RATED NC-30. ATTENDING THIS SHOW MAY CAUSE EARLY ONSET MIDLIFE CRISIS IN PERSONS UNDER THIRTY.”
The medieval-themed, multi-media, evening equates the realizations that initiate midlife crisis with receiving a terminal diagnosis that triggers the grieving process. Using Elizabeth Kübler Ross’ five stages of grief – Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance – “Life in the Middle Ages” illustrates the midlife crisis experience. Addressing its subject matter through observation, storytelling, video and group participation, the show allows the audience to both commiserate and celebrate the universally dreaded concept of midlife crisis.
LA theater critics agree; this is a must-see show:
“Very funny insights with sincerity and humility. Still with me days later.”
Stage and Cinema
“Irreverent, Quip-Happy… the Audience Seemed Truly Touched.”
Backstage West
“Foul-mouthed, glib, self-assured, and dead on. Ochs gives us not just illumination but coping skills if not a downright solution to our fears.”
LA Splash
“A brisk, funny, and ultimately uplifting show.”
LA Theater Review
TICKETS - $15
THE NEXT BEST THING - Antonio Sacre
LA Weekly - GO!
" His stories feel authentic even when they veer into fantasy, and his view is fresh, quirky, and unpredictable." (Neal Weaver)
Saturdays @ 7pm through September 24
TICKETS - $15
Gospel of a Teenage Jesus
Jesus Christ is SO over being 14. Between being bullied at school and being controlled at home in an angst-ridden relationship with his mother (Mary) and step-dad (Joseph), the only true escape Jesus can find is his journal. To make matters worse, his birth father (God) shows up out of the blue with a desire to make up for lost time. It’s going to take a miracle for Jesus to forgive Him. And Jesus isn’t the only one; Hell hath no fury like a Mary scorned. Only now, centuries later, can Mutineer Theatre Company finally answer the question “WWJW?” (What Would Jesus Write?")TICKETS - $15
THEATRE UNLEASHED PRESENT:
SUPER SIDEKICK THE MUSICAL
An original story by rising playwright Gregory Crafts (Friends Like These), with music by Michael Gordon Shapiro (the films The F-Zone and Home Room), Super Sidekick is an exciting, heart-warming and inspiring play that follows the dynamic duo of Blackjack and Inky, the greatest super hero/sidekick combination in the Kingdom, as they track the evil Sorcerer Slurm to the Caves of Doom to rescue the Princess.
TICKETS - PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Last of the Knotts
Doug, a carefree hipster, unwraps the gift of love and discovers a time-bomb of revenge. Tallahassee patriarch Judge Knott wanted his only son, Doug, to give him a grandson. Doug, having taken enough shit from the redneck Judge, aims his metaphorical gun at his father and says, “No way. I am the last of the Knotts.” This is Knott a comedy…TICKETS - $15
LET'S GET STEVE!
The Ultimate Steve Martin Tribute Act
Take a trip back to the mid 1970s when that Wild and Crazy Guy, Steve Martin, first graced the stage with his genius brand of anti-comedy. Armed with a banjo, bunny ears, arrow-thru-the-head, and blinding white suit, LET'S GET STEVE! offers a dead on recreation of Steve
Improvatorium is at it again! The company that brought you "Zombience" and "Hitchcocked," brings you two weekends of hilarious short form improv at Theatre Asylum.
In a town awash with Long Form, Cage Matches, Teams and Competitions, Improvatroium dares to stick out its improvisational neck to
return to improvised scenes, songs, extended scenes, and maybe one or two of those traditional improv "games" that are now almost considered retro!
Directed by Patrick Bristow ( Whose LIne & Henson Alternative's puppet improv phenom, "Stuffed And Unstrung")
Each show feature a very special guest
Friday Sept 2nd - Jordan Black
Saturday Sept 3rd - Mindy Sterling
Friday Sept 9th - Tim Bagley
Saturday Sept 10th - TBD
TICKETS -$10
July 21 – August 28, 2011
(Los Angeles, CA) (July, 2011)... After a record breaking second year for the Hollywood Fringe Festival (HFF2011) the bar has been set high for Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival (BOHFF). This year BOHFF will be featuring over twenty of the most award winning, crowd pleasing and critically awarded shows from HFF2011, reflecting a range of theatrical presentations from solo shows to full ensemble productions and musicals.
In addition we are excited to announce that Artworks Theatre (Fringe Central) and Actor’s Circle Theatre will be joining Theatre Asylum/Combined Artform in presenting the BOHFF2011, starting the week of July 21 through August 28.
Fringe On!
Best of the Hollywood Fringe will be featuring (Listed by Venue)
Actor’s Circle Theatre – 7313 Santa Monica Blvd. LA. CA 90046
Trouble With Words (* Pay What You Want) Fri. & Sat. July & August @ 8pm
Artworks Theatre & Studios- 6567 Santa Monica Blvd. LA CA 90038
A Mess of Things 8/20 @ 8pm, 8/21 @ 2pm
Another Effing Family Drama 8/20 & 27 @ 8pm, 8/21 & 28 @ 5pm
Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You 7/28-30 @ 8pm, 7/31 @ 2pm
Lost Moon Radio (*$13) 8/11 @ 8:30pm, 8/12 @ 9:30pm
The Booby Prize 7/21 - 23 @ 8pm, 7/24 @7pm
The Milford Project 8/5 @ 9:30pm, 8/6 @ 8pm, 8/7 @ 2 & 7 pm
Theatre Asylum & Lab- 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. LA, CA, 90038
4 Clowns 7/9 @ 8pm
Bean 7/24 & 31 @ 7pm
Blink & You Might Miss me 8/6 @ 7pm
Blood Fruit 8/4, 11 @ 8pm & 8/20 @ 7pm
Cowboy Mouth 8/ 6 @ 8:30pm
Evolution of a Kiss 7/30 @ 8pm
Fear Factor : Canine Edition 8/ 6 @ 8pm
Home Free / Endgame 7/ 30 @ 9:30pm
The Last of the Knott’s 8/9 @ 8pm & 8/14 @ 7pm
Life in the Middle Ages Fridays 7/22 - 8/26 @ 8pm
My Mobster 8/13, 20, 27 @ 8:30pm
Over There. Comedy is the Best Weapon 7/21 & 28 @ 8pm
Porter's Macbeth: A Parody 7/15 , 22, 29 @ 8pm
Sum of My Parts 9/3 @ 8:30pm
The Barking Pig 7/22 @ 9:30pm
The Next Best Thing 8/13, 27 @ 8pm & 8/21 @ 7pm
The Yellow Dress 8/7 @ 7pm
The Yogamerican Dream 8/18 @ 8pm
Who Loves You Baby! 7/30 @ 8pm
Schedule subject to change and shows may be added, please check www.hollywoodfringe.org for updated schedule and ticket information.
All shows are $15. Except where noted*. General info 323-962-1632
Theatre Asylum and Lab are back for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2011.
Press Week June 9 – 12th and
Opening June 16th and running through
June 26th
We are excited to be hosting 17 international, national and local shows for
over 100 performances.
Hollywood Fringe @ The Asylum - Schedule
Tickets range from $12 - $15.
Info & Tickets
The Hollywood Fringe Festival 2011
Box Office - 323-455-4585
ENDLESS SUMMER
Friday & Saturday @ 8pm
May 27 & 28
“The Endless Weekend Tour” will team up PianoFight’s SF and LA branches during their first multi-city tour and features all new and original material from Mission Control (writers of “The S.H.I.T. Show”), Monday Night ForePlays and audience favorites from the nation’s largest audience-judged playwriting competition, ShortLived.
Come celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with PianoFight. Get your tickets now – $15 online pre-sale and $20 at the door.
Tickets and additional information - www.pianofight.com
IMPROVATORIUM & COMBINED ARTFORM ARE BACK
HITCHCOCKED
CLOSING MAY 28th @ 8PM
L.A.'s Improvatorium, which brought you "Zombience" and "Death, Lies & Alibis," delves into
the world of Alfred Hitchcock with their latest improvised slap in the face to a much lionized genre. Audience suggestions will propel the action throughout the evening as the cast strives to create a one time only, completely
original story in the style of Mr. H's films. The cast is costumed in the Hitchcockian tradition, but that is the only pre-prepared aspect of the show.
Review from SoCal.com
TICKETS - $20
(323) 960-7612 or
www.plays411.com/hitchcocked
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
BLINK & You Might Miss Me
Fridays @ 8pm
Through May 27th
Blink & You Might Miss Me is a humorous look back at Larry Blum’s
personal journey in show business. Sharing engaging stories along with rare clips and photos from his long and varied career, Larry reflects on the unique opportunity he has had to experience celebrity up close and personal. Whether dancing in A Chorus Line onstage, in the feature film cult classic
Xanadu or on TV’s Solid Gold, or acting on every major daytime drama, Larry’s love of the business has never waned. He also enjoys the honor of escorting the glamorous women of Hollywood as they ascend the stairs to the stage to accept various awards. Though his name may not be a household word, Blink & You Might Miss Me is his moment to take center stage once again.
TICKETS - $20
(323) 960-7612 or
IMPROVATORIUM & COMBINED ARTFORM ARE BACK
HITCHCOCKED
Saturdays @ 8pm
Preview March 26
April 2 - May 7,2011
L.A.'s Improvatorium, which brought you "Zombience" and "Death, Lies & Alibis," delves into
the world of Alfred Hitchcock with their latest improvised slap in the face to a much lionized genre. Audience suggestions will propel the action throughout the evening as the cast strives to create a one time only, completely
original story in the style of Mr. H's films. The cast is costumed in the Hitchcockian tradition, but that is the only pre-prepared aspect of the show.
TICKETS - $20
(323) 960-7612 or
www.plays411.com/hitchcocked
GREEN BEETLE PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
at ASYLUM LAB
I Heart Hamas:
And Other Things I'm Afraid to Tell You
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm
February 11 - March 5, 2011
Written and Performed by Jennifer Jajeh
Directed by W. Kamau Bell
Jennifer is Palestinian. Well, Palestinian American. Or more precisely: a single, Catholic, first generation, Palestinian American woman who chooses to return to her parents’ hometown of Ramallah at the start of the Second Intifada.
Actress and writer Jennifer Jajeh, with award winning director W. Kamau Bell, present I Heart Hamas, a tragicomic solo theater show. Sick and tired of the unsolicited discussions, debate and disagreements about her identity and her opinions about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Jennifer tries to figure it out for herself. Join her on American and Palestinian soil on auditions, bad dates, and across military checkpoints as she navigates the thorny terrain around Palestinian identity.
"Jennifer Jajeh has an interesting story to tell. Sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing: her discoveries of what life in Ramallah is like for Palestinians may be revelatory for most Americans." --Chicago Tribune
Tickets $20-30
Also from San Francisco and
at the ASYLUM LAB
SLUMPBUSTER
Thursdays & Sundays @ 8pm
February 10 - March 6, 2011
Tickets $20-30
Harmon Leon in Ironic/NOT Ironic!
Harmon Leon's (Carson Daly Show, Howard Stern) new show, Ironic/NOT Ironic, examines the incongruity between the intended meaning of things and the real, actual meaning of things. (I know it sounds hilarious!) Featuring infiltration tales and videos of: -Crashing a celebrity impersonator’s convention posing as a 4th rate Austin Powers impersonator!-Videos of ironic bad teeth-Hipster videos that actually sound like baby gargle-Adorable kittens that could tear you LIMB FROM LIMB! Ironic/NOT Ironic will be appearing at the upcoming Adelaide Festival in Australia.
Colin Mahan is the high-kicking crooner Triforce Maiden in Too Many Words: A Crock Opera.**
The evil Sky Machine has enslaved mankind with promises of everyone making $225/hr from the comfort of their own homes, no training necessary.
Ex-antihero Triforce Maiden must lead a ragtag band of celebrity impressions on a musical odyssey to defeat the Sky Machine (or die onstage trying) in this comedy + rock = crock opera.
**Too Many Words is the name of the show, not a description.
Tickets $15 at the door.
Sunday January 16th @ 4pm
Tickets: $25
Box Office: www.allinonemusic.com/tickets
Contact: info@allinonemusic.com to reserve press tickets
More info: www.melissavardey.com
Zombie attacks got you down? You are cordially invited to join America's favorite singing family, The Wallace's, who are still doing their annual holiday tv special in spite of the recent plague! Presented by Improvatorium and Combined Artform/Theatre Asylum.
Opens Friday, November 19th at 8pm
and runs Saturdays through December 18th.
EXTENDED - JANUARY 8th
Tickets : $15
December 3 – 18
Fridays at 8pm and Saturdays at 10pm.
"Texas Chainsaw Yuletide" is the latest one-man show by the Bay Area's most original comedic talent, Will Franken (willfranken.com).
Tickets $15
ASYLUM LAB
The SpyAnts present
Kidnapped by Craigslist: The Graveyard Shift
Written by Katie Goan
Created by Katie Goan and Nitra Gutierrez
Directed by Lori Evans Taylor
October 16 - November 13, 2010
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm
One Thursday show - November 11th at 8pm
Late Night Saturday shows - October 23rd and November 6th at 10pm
Pay What You Can (at the door) on Sundays October 24th and October 31st
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world of anonymity? Say anything you want? Be anyone you can? Even if people think it is bizarre or disturbing? TheSpyAnts Theatre Company, celebrating their 10th Anniversary, present the long-awaited sequel to Katie Goan's and Nitra Gutierrez 's zany, kaleidoscopic play, Kidnapped by Craigslist. Lori Evans Taylor, who directed the original, takes on this new script with panache, weaving her cast in and out of the dozens of actual Craigslist's postings.
Kidnapped by Craigslist: The Graveyard Shift is an eerie and risque new comedy that explores the carnivalesque, cult-like phenomenon that is Craigslist. TheSpyAnts' alternating cast brings actual postings to life from the web site with scripted material and live music. This unique and creative one-hour play tells the true stories that are locked inside an online community that has shaped and inspired today's internet generation. There's a place for you here. There's a place here for everyone. We all have a dark side, you know.
Tickets: $20
