Well Acted

Jo has been called a lot of things during her life - but which ones are true? And who gets to decide that?! In this comedy (with a few heart wrenching turns), we follow her from ages 5 to 50, as she tries to figure it all out. Nominated for Best Solo Play, Performer, and Director by Broadway World!

Indian-Thai actress and writer Almanya Narula makes her LA stage debut as Noor Inayat Khan: Indian princess, British spy, & Gestapo enemy #1. In this thrilling imagining of the last 30 minutes of her life, Noor's decisions will forever change the tide of a war we thought we knew everything about.

From David Mamet, one of the defining playwrights of American Theatre, comes five rarely seen one-acts plays. Each piece explores the difficult nature of human communication. Words, silences, gestures, memories, what do they all mean? When one person tells a story, can anyone truly understand?

It is said gossip leads to scandal, and scandal leads to ruin... Come on a hilarious adventure with Grace as she is scooped up from the English countryside and plunged into London high society. Romance, mystery, and scandal run amuck in this regency era story!

Tolkien meets Hemingway in the Trenches of World War One. Arthur Conan Doyle tracks down a suicidal Agatha Christie during her missing days. The openly gay director of Frankenstein visits the set of The Wizard of Oz. John Lennon’s ghost visits David Bowie on the night of his murder.

*HFF22 BEST MUSICAL* WINNER – BEST OF BROADWATER– HFF22 WINNER- BEST OF THE FRINGE - TVO AWARDS WINNER – PICK OF THE FRINGE – HFF22 NOMINEE – TOP OF THE FRINGE – HFF22 NOMINEE – BEST WORLD PREMIERE – HFF22 NOMINEE – INTERNATIONAL FRINGE ENCORE SERIES– HFF

This West Coast Premiere from the award-winning Welsh playwright Owen Thomas, starring acclaimed Welsh actors Gareth John Bale and Gwenllian Higginson, tells the hauntingly beautiful story of a couple who fall in love and decide to leave Wales in order to build a new life in the New World.

This solo show is Smiens’ coming out story, but also a story about how he found his way back to himself.  Smiens’ powerful story will make you laugh, cry, as well as think, in a poignant and emotionally moving way that inspires hope.

A story about a woman who's here today, but miles away. We center on the struggles of being a slave to the human mind. Cecilia feels haunted, and her days are foggy. She’s afraid to leave her home, leaving others to pick up the slack. When you’re completely out of control, who’s in control?

A follow up to the smash hit Scarlett Fever at HFF19. Creator John Wuchte explores the lives of 7 characters through gesture, dance, song, text, aprons and heels. A whimsical, quirky, physical-musical with kinetic choreography accompanied by live percussion, 7 original songs and a talking shirt.

Michael begins this piece with the uncomplicated consequence of overindulging in sensual “me time", and springboards us into a confronting journey of self-discovery, sexploration, and heartache. Funny, raunchy, witty, and painfully honest, cum find out where Dickin' Around might take you.

A searing portrayal of the battles fought by the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace, as seen through the eyes of a common soldier, this stunning monologue shows the brutality of war and the heavy costs paid by the ordinary men and their families who choose to follow their leaders into combat.

EMPANADA FOR A DREAM is one boy's story of growing up hard and fast in NYC.A tale of love, loss, heartache and forgiveness.An entertaining portrait of family and neighborhood set against the secret that destroys it all.It’s about growing up by getting out and coming back to one boy's Lower East Side

25 plays in 60 minutes. Hold on to your butts. A “Bracingly Paced Tour De Force” – LA Weekly

Joan of Arc has returned to set the history straight! Learn what really happened, right from the "Saint's" mouth herself. Comical and sentimental, they can't burn her more than once.