Queer

MONSTERS re-queering tales told Queer people have had our stories ripped away. History rewritten by the patriarchy. Love shamed where it once blossomed. Power taken where it should thrive. What if we took back the narrative? Put the queer back in myth? What if we weren't monsters?

What happens when two mushroom hunters meet in in the wood? What sounds like a joke turns in to one of the most romantic plays of this year’s Fringe festival. You see everyone needs Shroombody to Love! Warning! (The music in this production is written by real mushrooms)

In conservative Southwest Virginia, a puritanical pastor attempts to deliver his first sermon, but is interrupted by the many obscene voices in his head. He must confront his theology, sexuality, and identity in order to finish his sermon and... to survive. Written & Performed by Josiah Blount.

It’s 2008 and 13 year old Sarah is watching MTV when Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl comes on and her obsession with Katy begins. On a cloud of cotton candy, Cherry takes you on an intimate, bubblegum, pop journey on one woman's thank you card to her idol. #KATYCATS

Get ready for a bodacious battle of the bands as Jem and her best friends compete against the Misfits to win a record deal and save Starlight House. Notes: The 6/16 performance is ASL interpreted for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing. studio/stage is wheelchair accessible.

After a near-death experience, Crissy shows up unannounced at her ex-girlfriend Marcy’s doorstep. Rather than dwell on what would have been left unsaid, the pair each call ghosts from their past to tie up loose ends as they work to understand their own complicated, love-filled relationship.

Art restorer Elliot has decided he is safer living like the paintings he repairs- behind a thick layer of varnish, distant, untouchable. But when a stranger commissions him to restore his most challenging painting yet, Elliot learns to let people into his life again. CW: Themes of sexual assault

A multimedia solo choreopo'm that spirals through the mind of a Black trans non-binary artist at their wit's end. In this 60 minute performance, the Poet is haunted by thoughts and memories that are...ain't...is their own. A riot of thoughts, movement, and sound! An HFF23 Scholarship Recipient!

the sacral experience is an experimental bildungsroman exploring sacral's journey to self-actualization through unfulfilling work, salacious play & a quest for spiritual ascension. this one person show is a voyeuristic view into one man's tussle between his manhood and his higher self.

A guild of close-knit, basement-dwelling MMORPG players embarks on THE gaming quest of their lives: surviving the apocalypse. Geek tragedy meets musical theater meets Raccoon City in this bonkers and heartfelt rock n’ roll ode to queerness, acceptance, and love.

The talented kids of Little Stars Youth Theatre have been working hard to bring you their production of Macbeth. But when an emergency broadcast announces the incoming end of the world, the young cast evacuates, leaving only their director, Jill, behind. The show must go on...right?

Laser Webber, trans performer known for his award-winning comedy music, presents a one-person musical show about the history of trans men. Meet Alan Hart, who got gender-confirming surgery in 1917; Samuel Bundy, whose legend includes a shark and a jail; and renowned author JK Rowling, for reasons.

As a woman in her early thirties - I feel it's time to explore my shame, sexuality, and acceptance the only way I know how...through conversations with a disturbingly accurate puppet version of my 11-year old self. This show is explosive, funny, and ultimately, super fucking honest.

With the infamous Pontianak, a most feared female ghost, lurking close by, a Malay-Muslim woman, Chomel, navigates the hantu-hantu (ghosts) of her mother, her grandma, and herself. As the stories of the women in her family unfold, the Pontianak also reveals her own horrific tale.

Sick of world problems? Good news: we're fixing them ALL tonight! In just one hour, comedian Ember Knight promises to achieve world peace - during the show. Packed with music and comedy, WORLD PEACE confronts our addiction to being the hero. Co-directed by Deanna Fleysher (Butt Kapinski, Tree)