Projects In Hollywood Fringe 2014

This play is a series of vignettes exploring and illustrating a series of mainstream and exotic phobias.

A bold, moving, and darkly funny family drama from Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated playwright Lee Blessing. Three sisters must contend with their mentally-ill mother and confront the demons of their past to forge a new, imperfect road to independence. Directed by industry veteran Vernee Watson.

Occupy The Beast. Maria Irene Fornes’ THE CONDUCT OF LIFE is a dark, 60-minute piece revolving around five characters who use sex, violence, power, money, love torture and humanity to navigate the oppressive house-hold at the center of the play.

Honestly, Ok is a hilarious, cruel view one woman's struggle to find a home and make a life for herself.

When you're a 9-1-1 Operator, people like to tell you their stories. These are the true stories of real people living in Los Angeles.

Who do we become in darkness, unobserved? Inspired by texts from the Harlem Renaissance, the Left Bank, and the Mexican Revolution, this dark comedy follows groups of outsiders as they betray each other, make out, strip, kill, and discover just how badly they're capable of behaving.

From the God who brought you the world’s biggest religions comes this high-energy, irreverent multimedia experience. Combining sketch comedy, puppets, and ‘70s self-help, critics are calling it the “don't miss” sacrilege of the year! Come see what the 4,000 years of religious strife is all about!

A play about discovering who you are and when to stand up for what you believe!

You're in Heaven. You hate it. Now what? A black comedy of devils, angels, whiskey and 665 Mardi Gras'. Now a part of the Fringe Producers Awards Encore Extensions! Two dates added in July. 11th and 25th at 8:30pm www.dustybums.wix.com/angels-and-whiskey

Four women find themselves intertwined in the everyday monatany of city life when very drastically things change for them all. An absurdist style performance that leaves the audience guessing exactly how these women will continue living in the city lights.

Hidden agendas reveal potential truths that gravely affect the relationships and sanity of three women in an acting exercise challenging the audience to separate truth from fiction regarding friendship, marriage, family, love, abuse and betrayal.

HAMLET MAX: Wm. Shakespeare's Hamlet told by 8 actors in 90 minutes, with animated, manga-style backgrounds in a post-apocalyptic setting. hamletmax.net

"The Last Train" (Le Dernier Train) is about confinement in the emotional sense, not the literal one. It is a thriller with a style borrowed from cinema, offering a new vantage point to witness a psychopath in action. They are often handsome, pleasant, and clever. This is where danger lies.

Better than Shakespeare! presents its inaugural production, a revisionist Much Ado About Nothing. New music, new intrigues, twists and turns… and aliens. Because we think The Bard could use a little help. Don’t you? We're calling it, Much Ado About Something. The Something is Aliens.

An exploration of right and wrong and the moralities of man. A detective and a murdering therapist, weigh the pros and cons of a crime done for the sake of love. Runtime: 25 minutes Two shows per hour. Please wait in line if you don't make the first showing.

"Dialogue with Devil" carries the true story of Nepalese people who suffered for ten years of Maoist insurgency.

When a man discovers the infidelity of his girlfriend, his plan for retaliation takes an unexpected turn.

Do I follow my heart? This is one question Emily has to answer as she battles with her perception of what love is. Inspired by true events, Love is. is a truly heart wrenching tale showing how the feeling of love and our perception of what love is can bring us closer together or tear us apart.

In a Mental Health Hospital, where most of the patients believe themselves to be Fairy Tale characters, two patients mysteriously vanish without a trace. A full investigation is put into play and the other patients, doctors and orderlies are questioned.

From the director of 'Pulp Shakespeare' (Best of Fringe 2011), comes Ministers of Grace, which imagines what the movie Ghostbuters would be like if written by William Shakespeare. This will be a staged reading, with a full scale production to come.

As Bill readies a new condo for him and his soon-to-arrive wife, he gets an unexpected visit from their new neighbor, Jack. What follows is a sharp comedy about the lives we dream of having versus the lives we end up living. Located in the Dorie Theatre.

One sip of me, and the green fairy you will see! Boundless Artists presents this dark romance about a man who must choose between reality or a hallucination whom he is in love with. But what happens when the Absinthe is gone? Watch and see!

In 1954, five of “Picasso’s women” meet in a café in Paris, to see if they can cooperate- despite animosities and jealousies- in writing a book about their experiences. A dramatic and entertaining examination of love, genius, misogyny, paintings, impunity, sex, betrayals, fears, strengths, etc.

A hilarious new teen show, written by Chambers Stevens and performed by some of LA's top young actors.

Set within the confines of an underground bunker in a post-apocalyptic world, McClain's Odessa is a futuristic myth about the complex intersections intimacy, isolation and identity. Illyrian Artistic Director Weckstein explores these themes through a lens of sex-positivity. vimeo.com/97298238