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Nominated for 8 awards by the NAACP Theatre Awards—honored as the 2024 International Fringe Festival Encore Series Award winner and a month-long run Off-Broadway...Gil Scott-Heron Bluesology brings to life the story of Gil Scott-Heron, hailed by Melody Maker as “The Most Dangerous Musician Alive".

No one has practiced the Mysteries of Persephone in over 1500 years and the old gods are beyond upset. Help save the world from their wrath and disappointment by finding the young goddess in a journey that melds LARP, immersive theater, ritual re-enactment, and ancient esoteric practices.

The room next door at the Lorraine Motel. The night before Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Four agents listen—and choose not to act. No one leaves the room.

This one woman show about Joan of Arc and mental illness is combination history lesson and autobiography. Both humorous and heartbreaking, it weaves together the stories of Joan of Arc, the writer’s journey with mental health, and the moment where both women’s lives overlap.

A skin-crawling solo show about life, death and what lies in between. Join medium Conrad Hoff (Adam Frost-Venrick) for his final sitting as he tries to reckon with his past and confronts the entity which has plagued him all his life.

The Agitators is a play re-enacting the live speeches of Fredrick Douglas, Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King and Malcom X. The plan is five speeches give by these four titan performed by one actor in 50 minutes. This is a shorter version of a longer play by this team.

A play about the stories we tell to survive. Spanning pandemic present and historical past, The Great Dying weaves family crisis with contested colonial histories of disease and collective memory, as a writer confronts her father’s failing health, asking who tells the story, and at what cost.

A farce about the Thirty Years War, part of Europe's complex Wars of Religion. What began as a series of pranks perpetrated by members of the ruling class, eventually got out of hand and wiped out two-thirds of Germany's peasant population. The Thirty Years War: the most hilarious war in history.

A haunting, immersive, sea-shanty-based musical: 25 years after the sinking of the Whaling Ship Essex, three survivors are haunted by the ghosts, trauma, & pain of their past. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Association Los Angeles Self-Produced Project Code.

Nazareth's favorite son is back. God, Ms Magdalene, Satan are along as well. Part soul concert, part historical rectification, part pearl clutching blasphemy, this human telling by the man, not the myth, is guaranteed to entertain or offend just about everyone on your Christmas card list.

Who threw the first brick at The Stonewall Inn? These activists know, but they’re not saying. Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson and other LEGENDS of the LGBTQ community recount what (might have) happened on Christopher Street that scorching hot night in June. A story of community and resistance.

Josiah Henson. Born enslaved. Escaped to freedom. Returned to free over 100 others. Wrote an autobiography. A book, Uncle Tom's cabin, was inspired by his life. This award winning solo show tells why he is known not as an American hero, but slanderously as Uncle Tom.

Award-winning artist Duane Forrest blends the timeless music of Nat King Cole with powerful storytelling in a moving exploration of legacy, identity, quiet resistance and what it means to belong.

A solo piece built from real interviews with a woman living with chronic illness and a terminal diagnosis. A man trying to tell her story confronts a devastating, embedded system that denies women’s pain...and his place within it.

THE FIRST BATTLE AGAINST THE MACHINES!!! Did you know... before AI, there was the power loom? Rural England. 1812. Young soldiers come home to find themselves replaced by technology. With nowhere left to turn -- their small town becomes the battleground for the future of humanity.