NEW PLAY CROSSES THE GREAT POLITICAL DIVIDE

Things We Said Tonight

May 20, 2026
Contact:
Tom Waldman
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(818) 274-2729

A Republican congresswoman has a chance encounter with a liberal, gay playwright at an abandoned restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. Despite their political differences, the pair establishes a common bond.
All is going well, until …
Set in the present, “Things We Said Tonight” is being staged as part of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The 50-minute one act will be performed at the Hudson Theatres (Guild), 6539 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, 90038. Performance times are Friday, June 6, 8:15 p.m.; Sunday, June 14, 4:45 p.m., Saturday, June 20, 5 p.m., Sunday, June 21, 6:30 p.m., and Saturday June 27, 1:30 p.m.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through the Fringe website https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13180 or the Hudson box office beginning an hour before the show begins.
The play’s author, Tom Waldman, spent more than three decades working for elected officials and public institutions in Los Angeles.
“Although America is now officially a ‘polarized nation,’” said Waldman, “that doesn’t mean individuals holding different ideological and political perspectives can’t forge close ties. It’s both too easy and counterproductive to buy into the narrative that conservatives and liberals are 100% opposites, destined to do battle always and forever.”
Waldman describes his play as “rigidly nonpartisan,” with the congresswoman and playwright “giving as well as he or she gets.”