Vaudeville

Join actor and solo improv queen, Melanie Cruz, as she collaborates with you and the rest of the audience to improv new characters in real time. Will she be funny? Will she crash and burn? Will she make you cry? Only one way to find out!

A short comedic play written by Anton Chekhov, infused with modern style, physical comedy, and silliness.

Robert and the smart aleck Magic Mirror (think "Snow White") get a free trip to space. While Robert “bros out” with billionaire Sir Richard Branson, the Magic Mirror befriends a like-minded super computer. Join them on a singing, dancing, action-packed adventure that’s not afraid to get weird.

It's twisted love poetry on the edge of madness and merriment –a sword fight with masked kings, prophesying puppets, and singing clowns. The Rogues bring their “whirligig of ferocious creativity” (LA Weekly) to remix Shakespeare’s iconic scenes and make the Bard roll over in his grave.

On August 15th, 1945 Elenore Mosley discovers she will never reach her true calling, Vaudeville. Her dreams of showgirl whimsy are dashed by an undiagnosed mental disorder. That same day, a bomb dropped over Hiroshima, Japan. This historical event will forever alter the life she's lived.

Nothing happens...twice! Featuring the tragicomic talents of Jeff Lowe, Jonathon Durante, Richard Burnes, and Paul Burt. Directed by Jesse Runde. Produced by Alchemy Theatre Company. Alchemy Theatre Company is a fiscally sponsored project of OneOC.

“Hollywood Minstrel show: The Hollywood Africans,” is performance art inspired by “Hollywood Africans” canvas by Jean Michel Basquiat. Hollywood Minstrel show chronicles a wacky former studio executive now homeless living on the streets of Los Angeles.

A variety show of epic proportions featuring some of Maddy's Famously Friends

Fringe Cabaret is the only official Hollywood Fringe Festival sampler platter featuring the best in comedy, music, magic, storytelling, dance, circus, and all around good fun! Come out to Fringe Central, grab a drink, and get a taste of what this 2024 season has to offer!

The boys are back in town! One of TimeOut LA's "10 Shows to See" at last year's Fringe, the New Bad Boys of Magic present COKE & MIRRORS, the new story of their rise and fall from Las Vegas headliners to Los Angeles children's entertainers. It's magic, comedy, drinking, and definitely NSFW.

Wildcat Jackson is the self-proclaimed Monarch of the West. With his silly yet edgy brand of comedy magic, he entertains as an old-west showman in a modern world. This bargain-basement Buffalo Bill Cody works a crowd with his larger-than-life charisma and offbeat one man side-show.

COME ONE! COME ALL! - watch as Twirly the Clown spills her guts all over the Fringe Hollywood stage! It's a one clown performance sure to amaze and bewilder! USE CODE: "RUBE" TO ADD TWIRLY'S COMIC BOOK TO YOUR ORDER!

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

From the early vaudeville days of Bert Williams to Broadway today, SHUFFLE ALONG stars Los Angeles character actor Arthur L. Ross in a musical journey of the black actor, struggling to escape the minstrelsy of blackface and take the Broadway Stage.

Jackie, Baby! is a one-woman solo-show set backstage in 1934 Hollywood, as talking pictures begin to replace vaudeville. Jackie, a once-celebrated star, prepares to return to the stage while reckoning with love, aging, and what it truly means to be seen.