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Join us for the event of the season: the Opening Night Party at LGBT Center (1125 N McCadden Pl)! A night of drinks, dancing, meeting your fellow participants & more. VIP packages available. Entrance requires a $5 Fringe Button ($3 for participants, primary contacts for shows receive one for free).

From David Mamet, one of the defining playwrights of American Theatre, comes five rarely seen one-acts plays. Each piece explores the difficult nature of human communication. Words, silences, gestures, memories, what do they all mean? When one person tells a story, can anyone truly understand?

4 girlfriends, an immigrant, a trans woman, a sultan's niece and a cancer survivor share their hilarious journeys to LA over a board game. 4 totally different perspectives. Starring Christine Blackburn, Michelle MaliZaki, Melanie Maras and Bea Van Slee.

LOVE CHICKEN is a queer comedy about friendship, long-kept secrets and the making of well-meaning chaos. Nonbinary best friends Lolo and Yan's weekend of bonding and board games is crashed by unexpected visitors and a host of unresolved feelings. Shows: 6/5, 6/10, 6/18 @ McCadden Masks Required.

What happens to us after we die? Learn first hand from a man who experienced the afterlife. In this interactive show set in a world of magic and illusion, Larry uses comedy, magic, games and puppets to recreate his near death experience and share some lessons he learned on his journey back.

This West Coast Premiere from the award-winning Welsh playwright Owen Thomas, starring acclaimed Welsh actors Gareth John Bale and Gwenllian Higginson, tells the hauntingly beautiful story of a couple who fall in love and decide to leave Wales in order to build a new life in the New World.

Come join the fun with Dashia, at Let's Get Silly! It's a live podcast recording with special guests. There's going to be Improv Games, Laugh Battles, "Instant" Rap Challenges and much much more. It's one big party, that'll be fun, silly, and leave you in stitches!

Cantankerous Chicago columnist Mike Royko just may be the toughest man in Chicago as he takes on corporate greed, mobsters, celebrities, racism, and the Mayor of Chicago, in this multi-media solo show tour de force by Hollywood Fringe veteran Mitchell Bisschop. Tickets: hff22.co/7567

A disgruntled team of female con artists meet after a successful heist but mutiny boils under the surface as accusations are hurled and lines are drawn. Old resentments threaten the stability of a criminal team that finds itself teetering on the brink of compromised exposure and threat of betrayal.

ROBERT INGERSOLL (1833-1899) THE GREATEST AMERICAN YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF. HE WAS THE MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN IN THE WORLD AND THE MOST REVILED MAN IN THIS COUNTRY. COME AND MEET THE MOST FORMIDABLE FOE ORGANIZED RELIGION IN THIS NATION EVER FACED, THE "GREAT SATAN" HIMSELF. A SHOW BY ERNEST KEARNEY

An intimate look at the final moments of the life of the truly unique British comedian, Tommy Cooper. Reliving his past performances and looking back on his troubled life and relationships before his final, fatal performance Live on TV and before the Royal Family in 1984's Live at Her Majesty's.

*WINNER OF ENCORE! PRODUCERS' AWARD!* *NOMINEE FOR BEST IMMERSIVE & GAMES!* “Signals” is a sci-fi immersive experience that invites participants into a research station filled with anomalous artifacts and beings from other dimensions. Over 25 different quests & multiple branching storylines!

The Time Flies is a history based sketch comedy show with a sci-fi tilt where human-fly hybrids buzz through history. Two shows in rep! Episodes 3: Historic Theft Part 1 and Episode 4: The Assassination of JFK continue the Flymen's journey to reclaim the stolen time travel Exposition Scroll!

Apocalypse at the Rainforest Cafe exposes the secret lives of the workers and animatronics of the Rainforest Cafe, only to be immeasurably interrupted by the Illuminati's plan to cleanse the world of the lower middle class. Little do they know, the animatronic animals are alive and dangerous.

A one-woman docu-theater project exploring, reflecting, and paralleling Annie’s 1990’s hit show: Post Porn Modernist. Sophia LaPaglia performs a series of word for word interviews with those were there, exploring: sexuality, radical love, and the healing impact of theater in the time of a pandemic.