Dark Comedy

Imagine you only had minutes to decide what to take before your house burns down. What would you grab? Michael David Ker took his family photos, his surfboard, and sense of humor…The fire was just the grand finale of a year full of loss. A deeply personal show is full of humor, heartbreak, and hope.

WEST COAST PREMIERE: RESERVOIR DOGS MEETS THE THREE STOOGES. CRIMINAL GENIUS, TAKES PLACE IN A SUBURBAN MOTEL ROOM. "Transients, lovers, the haunted and the hunted, the desperate and the dumb, each strut and fret their hour upon stage and then are heard no more.."

Crude is an award winning darkly humorous drama (not authorized by Motley Crue) about a band who rose up from the streets of Hollywood now available to watch on Video On Demand! https://asylumcombinedartform.vhx.tv/products/crude

After Dazia finds out unexpectedly that she's pregnant their final summer before senior year of college, her best friend Ayanna takes it upon herself to plan a wild and crazy "abortion weekend" to terminate the pregnancy.

This Pulitzer Prize finalist play is an existential comedy...or maybe it’s not...about the beautiful mysteries of the human experience and what may happen when one holds on to them, never being able to make total sense of them, buries them — and then suddenly needs to talk about it all.

When a college girl is admitted to a psych hospital, she wonders why she feels more at home with a truck-driving womanizer or a devil-fearing Zumba dancer than with anyone she knows outside the hospital. Could it be that the typically dark world of the psych ward is more forgiving than our own?

Emma and Richie are breaking up, and they’ve decided the best way to celebrate the occasion is by throwing a Viking Funeral for their dead relationship. But their funeral plans are thrown into chaos when they accidentally bring two real Vikings back from the dead.

In the world premiere of this musical dark comedy, an optimistic young woman is stricken by a mysterious illness and must navigate unsympathetic doctors, disbelieving friends, and her own depression as she fights to recover both her health and sense of hope.

There’s a new kid in town: January 6. 9/11 has had its 20 years in the sun. It’s time for 1/6 to take its rightful seat as a progenitor of fearless satire. TOURRORISTS is the first comedy about the January 6 insurrection. Destruction of American democracy has never looked dumber.

5 stars! Gumbo Theatre in a wacky romp that is distinctly Japanese. A hit at fringe fests around the world. Take a Japanese TV game show, mix in anime, Krazy Kitty and Businessman. Critics' Choice Media Pick at Edmonton Fringe, Outstanding Comedy at San Diego Fringe, Best Ensemble at FRIGID NY.

After witnessing a supernatural event, a struggling stand-up comedian embarks on a mystifying and darkly comedic journey of self-discovery as he questions a series of haunting coincidences from his childhood in narco-terrorized Colombia.

Imagine if The Gilmore Girls f*cked The Exorcist and 9 months later aborted the baby from Agnes of God. You'd have The Pig Farm.

After a drunk driver killed both his teenage children, Colin Campbell channeled his shock, anguish and rage into this tragic-comic exploration of our culture’s inability to talk about grief. Comedic and heartbreaking, profound and profane. Get ready for a rollicking bad time!

A daring, corporeal tragedy in which the animals are dying, and ‘Bearers’ have been tasked with carrying endangered fetuses to term. A ‘Bearer’ finds new purpose in her pregnancy, but at what cost?

Julia and her husband Brian have taken in her older brother Sam, but when a year of getting back on his feet turns into three, they have to find a way to help him move on.