Heartfelt

When it rains, it pours. And bad things always come in threes. Or elevens. Or in a relentless deluge of hatefulness for two years straight. This is a show about the ways we pull ourselves out of rough times with humor, the strangers we never expect will help us the most, and love letters.

SOMETIMES YOUR HEART HAS TO STOP FOR YOUR LIFE TO START. A one-woman dramedy about a pagan actress who dies on the operating table, awakens in "Heavens Waiting Room," and is led back thru her earthly life by the spirit of Sir Laurence Olivier. Will she give up on her dreams, or...?

Misadventures in the art of Speed-Dating or: (How Not to Grieve) . . . One woman's hilarious, heartbreaking search for her place in a world altered, forever, by her brother's suicide.

After the death of his beloved grandfather, 9-year-old Chris becomes terrified of his own mortality. Then he meets a skittish pony named Atom Ant. As two boys competing in English horse shows dominated by rich little girls, they learn that the world’s not as scary when you put yourself second.

The day I walked out the door for my first round of chemotherapy, I said "Time for my Joy Juice!" Joy Juice is an honest, emotional and funny portrayal of a teenager and his family's journey with cancer. It's the name of my memoir, one person show, screenplay and foundation(JoyJuiceInc.Org).

Extended! Thursday, July 9th, 7:30pm— The Bootleg Theater! Come take a breather from the 'darkness' for a good 37 minutes with Abby and U and Me and My Best Friend P! (The other 13 minutes cannot be accounted for, but your inner tyke will thank u for it!)

The VirginMotherWhore Project Presents... War for H.I.S.: An Evening of 3 One-Woman-Shows The War for Humanity:"A Place Called Home" by Satya Vanii The War for Innocence:"Full Glitz" by Heidi Lux The War for Our Souls:"Be:Jesus+Drugs=Beauty" by Lesley Asistio

Join Laura on a booze-soaked journey into hilarity, death and dementia. In 2009, she leaves LA and goes to Atlanta to take care of her aging father. A rollicking road trip gets derailed by ghosts of the past, late night Food Network binges and pill fueled hallucinations as she finds her way home.

The ledge is a scary place because we feel alive, and that all could come crashing down at any moment. This is the story of two people on that ledge and the past that still has a grip on them hindering the fall as well as pushing them towards it.

A hilarious and heart-breaking true coming-of-age tale about living as a university student in China in 1988-1989 and working for CNN during the Tiananmen Square Uprising.

"All of my positive parenting skills have abandoned me." Megan Dolan is having a hard day. She seeks solace in her Vitamix, tracing the roots of her smoothie addiction back to one pivotal year when her mom joined a cult, her dad joined the dating pool and her world fell apart.

Winner of 7 Hollywood Fringe Awards, Four Clowns returns for a 5th year to present an evening of comedy, music, and mayhem in The Halfwits' Last Hurrah. Part Vaudeville tribute, part showbiz farce – a fame-hungry showman and his troupe of halfwits struggle to keep their variety show alive.

This musical explores the glamorous Hollywood ladder and those who hope to climb it. Four industry assistants maneuver around long hours, degrading work, and hostile environments in the name of their dreams. They soon find that in order to survive, they need some assistance of their own.

Based on the book “40 Crazy Years of Friendship” by Richard Hulse, this story is of one man's journey in dealing with the unexpected death of his best friend. They are reunited in the best friend's burnt condo to take a walk down the path of remembrance and reconciliation to the demons within.

Mary of the Avenue is a traditional musical-comedy play. It is set in New York City in the dead of winter. The story highlights the plight of the homeless there while touching on some of the realities and cultural realities, all in a light-hearted but poignant presentation.