Comedy

In the basement of an abandoned office building, former employee Guy Johnson arrives for a meeting that was never scheduled at the job he was fired from long ago. Physical Theater, clown, improvisation and basketball combine into a comedic theatrical poem of failure and transformation.

Shel Silverstein’s epic dirty poem about a young blues musician who gambles with the devil and loses, twice. O’ Brother Where Art Thou meets a speakeasy beatnik open mic. One Man A Live Band A Red Velvet Dive

A liquor-swillin', trailer-dwellin', hillbilly sex romp. A white trash bride plots to marry the dimwitted, alcoholic nephew of a septic tank millionaire and kill both. Drinkin', swearin',fightin & fornicatin' are what's in store for these Illinois rednecks.

Join The Visceral Company’s very own ghoul of cool, Hemophelia, as she scares up a new late-night comedy variety show! A troupe of seven experienced comedians bring you hysterical tales of the macabre, hilarious original songs, weird puppets, and more. It’ll leave you screaming… with laughter!

This two man one man show chronicles the trials and tribulations of a lonely loser named Tim, as told by the Left and Right sides of his brain. It just might change your life! Maybe.

In this one-woman show, Marie Lively shares the true story of how a naive Christian temp became a corporate smut queen for one of the largest pornographers in town.

WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL, NOMINEE: DUENDE DISTINCTION A sparkling new comedy about a middle-class Nigerian 3rd grader who dreams of becoming poor to win the heart of her popular classmate. A fresh glimpse of African life about a girl eager to reject herself in to order to feel like she belongs.

2012 Backstage Critics' Pick! TU presents 25 NEW original short plays featuring a handful of the company’s top actors playing over 50 characters in just one hour. Fusing comedy, drama and everything in between, it's a complete theatrical journey in 60 minutes! Speed theatre at its best!

"The First time I hire an accountant, and..I'm...Audited!?" A True Story of one man's Hilarious battle to defend himself against the IRS using receipts, anxiety, loads of diet soda (and a hint of creativity). What would you risk to defeat the most powerful agency in the US?

Oh no! Frank and Avis have lost their nephew in a busy mall! Maybe if they wait on that bench he'll show up. Maybe everything will be okay. Maybe if they wait long enough, their lives will have meaning. Maybe somebody's coming to rescue them. Maybe... wait, why are they sitting there again?

A father tries to develop his version of the musical "Love Never Dies" starring his daughters and finds himself staging it in a strip club. One of his daughter's boyfriend tries to stop it from happening and high junks ensue.

In THE BOOBY PRIZE, writer/performer Lizzie Czerner grows tired of playing second banana to her two melons and goes on a quest for love…but she discovers that her “girls” just wanna have fun! Audiences are raving that THE BOOBY PRIZE is “funny, smart, poignant, fearless, and sexy.”

Delilah Dix is in the slammer for smuggling an orphan in an endangered koala skin over state lines. In this 1 hour maniacal musical comedy, take a trip down memory lane with our biggest, brightest, currently disease free, America's Showgirl!

True tales of being picked on, chased down, and beat up, from his youth to adulthood. Will he ever learn to stand and fight? Are bullies and the bullied always destined to find each other? If so, who or what will save him from years of torment? From the creator of **DOG YEARS.**

Part of Fringe Central Station's nightly free programming includes Fringe Cabaret, a changing variety act that includes snippets of different Fringe productions.