Dark Comedy

Comedian Cat Alvarado, shares her journey from Evangelical Christianity to finding her identity in secular society. Cat Alvarado performs internationally, has been in the nation's top comedy festivals such as Laughing Skull, and is a featured comic at the 2022 Great American Comedy Festival.

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.

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?

4 scenes during the months/weeks/days/hours before the Earth is swallowed by a black hole.

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?

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.

The Greatest Show in the World from a Completely Flawless and Perfect Performer. It's a solo show. A clown show. Absurd. Simple. Outrageous. Stupid. Fun. It’s terrible. An important waste of your time. It's great. Please strongly consider all of this information before coming.

In 2002, UK comedian Henry Naylor & photographer Sam Maynard went to the Afghan Warzone. They were threatened by a war criminal, captured by the Mujahadeen, and almost blown up by the Taliban. This amazing true story received 12 five-star reviews and won 2 major awards at the 2022 Adelaide Fringe.

OFFICIAL WINNER OF THE HOLLYWOOD ENCORE PRODUCERS’ AWARD Based on alternative facts, "4 Seasons Total Sh!tshow" follows the antics of the campaign staffers charged with changing reality to fit @RealDonaldTrump's declaration: "Lawyers Press Conference at Four Seasons, Philadelphia. 11:00 A.M."

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.

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

Desert Weeds is a dark comedy about four friends who wake up trapped, buried up to their necks, in a harsh desert. They struggle to survive and solve the mystery of how they got there all while keeping their fragile alliance intact as old wounds are opened and long simmering resentments resurface.

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.

Gen-Z drag queen Aura Sublime unravels her neuroses until she's bare, then reconstructs her image, in this shameless, irreverent, and cutting 30-minute solo play.

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.