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THEATRE UNLEASHED RETURNS WITH "STILL WAITING FOR LEFTY" July 16, 2021
project: (it's been 76 years and we're) still waiting for lefty
Acclaimed playwright Gregory Crafts picks up where Clifford Odets masterpiece Waiting for Lefty left off, thrusting its commentary into modern times to show how little has changed in this charged new work debuting at Hollywood Fringe. LOS ANGELES The idea for award-winning playwri...**PRESS RELEASE** CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED HIT SOLO SHOW DECONSTRUCTING HOLLY COMES TO FRINGE! July 15, 2021
project: deconstructing holly
Writer and Performer Holly Sidell uses candor and humor to explore how breast cancer and losing her reproductive organs due to the BRCA cancer gene helped her discover what it truly means to be a woman. LOS ANGELES What happens when everything youre told makes you a woman is taken away? At ...THE SLEEPOVER July 13, 2021
project: the sleepover
The Cricklewood Theatre Company presents The Sleepover, an online, immersive show that takes you back to middle-school in the 1990s. Nostalgia reigns as youre invited to a sleepover by new kid Mikey, while his moody older sister Louise has been left to babysit. Grab your sleeping bag and watch SNI...THE PLIGHT OF A GENERATION: TAKING ON SCHOOL SHOOTINGS WITH A ONE-WOMAN-SHOW July 11, 2021
project: i hear so extremely loud
Featuring an after-show Q&A with survivor of Parkland, I Hear So Extremely Loud is a brave look at the trauma of this generation. Los Angeles, CA: August 14th, 21st, and 22nd @ The Hudson Guild Theatre as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival In a one-person-show written and performed by Ava Ha...A WOMAN IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP, LOL... July 09, 2021
project: i'm fine.
Los Angeles, CA: Release July 9th, 2021 for immediate release. Paige Fockler is returning after her initial debut at The Second City Hollywood, a long, long year and a half ago, with, Im Fine. A Dramedy about a woman with a mental illness that is just dying for some help, any help, please someo...NOHO ARTS: A MASTERPIECE OF FERVENT AND DEEPLY HONEST AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SOLO WORK June 30, 2021
project: deconstructing holly
Deconstructing Holly is a play about loosing everything that we think makes us women. Holly Sidell had breast cancer and a double mastectomy and she also had Ovarian cancer and a hysterectomyso isnt that everything? Fortunately, it is notbut Holly finds this out the hardest way possible. And...BROADWAY WORLD: TRULY A REMARKABLE HOUR OF THEATER June 30, 2021
project: deconstructing holly
A show that takes you inside the heart and soul of a cancer survivor, whose transformation into the woman she was always meant to be is passionate, character-filled, bittersweet, joyful, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-saving. Truly a remarkable hour of theater." - Shari Barrett, Broadway World...AUTHENTICITY: THE MUSICAL, AN AWARD-NOMINATED FAMILY FRIENDLY COMEDY, DEBUTS AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE TO EXPOSE THE TOXIC SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE! June 21, 2021
project: authenticity: the musical
Authenticity is about finding yourself in a sea of fake profiles. The a full length stage show written by twenty-three year old Johnny Cassidy based on his feature film shot during the pandemic. LOS ANGELES - The theme is the title of the show- authenticity. says Johnny Cassidy: being authenti...FORGED IN A PANDEMIC June 15, 2021
project: lockdown love story
The national lockdown was not all bad news Alice Fforde and Charlie Dryden were students at LAMDA when the pandemic hit. With the acting world in complete disarray and no chance of gainful employment, the only way forward was to carve their own route into the industry. Quackpot Productions is a UK b...NOW, NOW, NOW… AT THE 2021 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL May 31, 2021
project: now, now, now... a livestream show!
WINNER BEST NATIONAL SHOW 2021 PITTSBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL WINNER BEST LIVESTREAM SHOW 2021 BIG SKY FRINGE FESTIVAL Award-winning Writer, Director, Producer Tom Cavanaugh brings his creation to the HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL along with a cast of nineteen actors in a bi-coastal, simulcast,...