World Premiere

Stories and songs about love, death, ashtrays, Joan Van Ark and much more. Critically acclaimed recording artist, Cynthia Carle teams with Second City Alum, Wendy Hopkins for a warm, witty, delightfully fun evening. Guaranteed laughs or a shitty sweater is yours!

How does a boy survive in a Midwestern farm culture ruled by guns and football when chess is his favorite sport? A humorous look at a childhood philosophy carried into a legal career and the consequences of that to one's love life, livelihood, and liver.

Now that it is legal for gays to get married, Miss Barbie Q is elated! Or is she? Follow her on her journey as she dives into what makes a marriage and what factors does she posess.

An epic tale of suspicion, murder, and love thrown asunder. Whose words can we believe when they all lead to the noose? Featuring live original music from Hardcore-Vaudeville/Art-Rock band House of Rabbits and mind-bending choreography from Post Mortem Movement Theatre.

A stylish staged reading of the baffling, awkward, intelligent, immature, scary, heartbreaking, devious, honest, and provocative entries that make up the missed connections category of Craigslist.

Sparks fly - in more ways than one - when a gay man moves in with a straight couple to try and save their failing marriage.

The Fringiest of Fringe Shows from the Quirkiest of Querques, THE BEST OF ALBUQUERQUE FRINGE 2025 features mincing southern harpies, Belgian clowns, lost Elizabethan dramas, and an intrepid holiday goose -- all treading the boards to vie for the top prize at our whimsical festival.

BREAKING BARD posits one of humanity’s greatest questions: What if TV’s “Breaking Bad” was written by William Shakespeare? The Porters of Hellsgate present the most lamentable tragedie of Walter of Albuquerque: containing his treacherous plots, tyrannical rise to power, and most deserved death.

An open-mike competition of personal storytelling pits contestants against each other for the chance to win Cowboy Soul of the Month.  This comic and musical romp marvels at the earthy gentility, the ‘cowboy soul’ that can still be found in our current age of irony and reality television. 

What is love? Do we have soulmates? Is a woman more likely to be killed in a terrorist attack than marry after 40?! Why is Cupid such an asshole? Award-winning writer Kathy Fischer explores love from all angles in this hilarious multimedia comedy that will change the way you think about love.

Voted Top of the Fringe & Best in Solo Performance!! Legend has it Shakespeare expired from a fever after a night of drinking. Raise your glass with the mysterious Bard of Avon on his "last night out" as he defends his authorship against doubting "canker blossoms" through a series of rowdy songs.

SOMETIMES YOUR HEART HAS TO STOP FOR YOUR LIFE TO START. A one-woman dramedy about a pagan actress who dies on the operating table, awakens in "Heavens Waiting Room," and is led back thru her earthly life by the spirit of Sir Laurence Olivier. Will she give up on her dreams, or...?

A musical play and meta-exploration of the theatre scene about a struggling (and mostly terrible) theatre troupe attempting to put on a musical that maybe really should never have been written in the first place.

Through a series of chats over coffee, a man discusses relationships with all of his exes: what they did right, where they went wrong, and whether they should try again. But is he sincere or just stroking his ego? What's the real reason behind his desire to reconnect with these women from his past?

The inseparable Lenore Sisters kept their harmonies tight from the vaudeville circuit to the recording studio. But their tune changed after the suspicious death of their promoter. Did one of the sisters get away with murder? Each sister tells her version of their fall from fame in words and song.