storytelling

COME SEE THE WOMAN WHO BECAME A STATISTIC AND BEAT THE ODDS! Nesha Wonderland performs her empowering and comically unique solo show about her journey from loss to love after the unsolved homicide of her father.

IT’S JUST MY LIFE is a collection of powerfully life-affirming true stories, written and performed by the strong women who lived them. What seems extraordinary and overwhelming to us, just becomes part of the fabric of these women’s lives; the new normal.   

Room No. 9 at the Chrysalis Inn is an animated story of a woman's healing journey in a hotel room. Alice, the main character, has checked into the Chrysalis Inn to cocoon herself from her toxic life of domestic abuse and a past childhood trauma.

Do you wanna get snapped? Grab a seat, get some tip money and enjoy female impersonator Vageena Honey as she tells her story of her rise to fame in a no holds barred diva style. Play consists of adult language, situations and brief nudity. FRINGERS USE DISCOUNT CODE FOR DISCOUNT!

Martin Morrow assembles a group of storytellers and comedians who share their stories of shame, abuse, mental health issues, and the cycle they all create. A portion of ticket sales goes to an abuse prevention clinic in the Los Angeles area.

"Ya Mama!" is a story about a young afro-creole girl losing a mother, gaining a stepmother, and becoming a mother. Set between New Orleans and Cleveland, we experience Nina grappling with what it means to give birth to the life you desire.

BEST OF BROADWATER Award and Best International and Inkwell Theater Playwright Promise Nominee! Two added shows Friday June 29 at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday July 1 at 7:00 p.m.! An important and timely drama, by acclaimed UK playwright Henry Naylor.

Hilarious and moving, this story follows a girl with OCD through the struggles & triumphs of treatment and the quirky shenanigans of growing up anxious. It explores the stigma of mental illness and comedic growing pains of change. Written/performed by Daytime Emmy winner Jessica Carleton.

See your favorite bible stories retold and performed on stage, through the lens of intoxication.

The Reverend JEAU’s Revival is a hip-hop comedy about a deluded evangelist and his most accomplished acolyte. Receive the gift of self-love through the Rev’s journey filled with drugs, marketing schemes, emotionally unavailable sex workers, perilous treks in the wilderness, and redemption.

"Still Life of an Orange and Other Puppet Parables" includes a series of fables that are absurd, funny and poignant. Through storytelling, video and puppetry, performance artist Jean Minuchin takes the audience on a journey into todays most pressing issues through the charm of puppetry.

Through anecdotes and song, Laura Coyle tells a sharply funny and poignant story about growing up with a mom who some may call... A Piece of Work.

From the youngest of five in an old school Texican family to a stunted adulthood hiding his true identity, Adrian is finally dragged out of the closet (kicking and screaming) at 30. “Hilarious, touching, entertaining and a little wild.” -nohoartsdistrict.com Directed by Jenni Melear.

The Story of My Life follows the friendship of Alvin and Thomas. These lifelong friends are reunited after Alvin's mysterious death as Thomas struggles to write Alvin's eulogy while recounting the many turns that their lives have taken since meeting as children.

A dramedy by Lucky Mor, inspired by Jay-Z's 4:44. Brothers come together to discuss what to do with their recently deceased parent’s estate. Misunderstandings, vulnerabilities, and resentments surface threatening the already fragile family unit. 4 brothers, 4 different views, 4 secrets revealed.