Dark Humor

Tales of a non-conformist black girl in extreme rural Maryland who almost "gives up on black people", takes the Official Preppy Handbook as her co-pilot, and flees to a Delaware boarding school with dreams of being nouveau riche and living Jesus-free in Connecticut. Dark, dark, comedy.

Love Game taps into the minds of ten college graduates who all agreed to commit a year of their lives to live in a house together. Brought to the house by the Sourceress, will these graduates find true love or fail in defeat?

'Wrong Guy Right' is a short film inspired by the confusion and emptiness of relationships amongst young people in today's world. This is a slice of life film that takes place over the course of a third date between two unknowingly lost souls in their early 20s.

A Horse is improvised Shakespeare with a modern twist! An outrageous, fast paced show that incorporates the Bard's language in modern day situations. "The play is the thing" and the players are Jimmy Mac, Amanda Barnes, Rollin Perry and Julian Clark. A Horse is coached by the divine Jaime Moyer.

A ONE MAN PHANTASMAGORIA...AND A VERY NAUGHTY BUNNY. A Mind-bending, thrilling mix of illusion, story telling and spooky madcap fun from the POV of a recovering magician, his unique bag of tricks and his malicious bunny. Starring Albie Selznick. Directed by Bettina Zacar. www.smokeandmirrors.me

The family drama has never been as raucous or funny as in this absurd comedy by Catherine Pelonero, directed by Dan Berkowitz. If kitchen sink drama bores the hell out of you, this is for you! Due to the graphic nature, people who think Death of a Salesman is the best play ever will not be admitted.

Lucky's out of luck. This burlesque chick is drunk, pregnant & fell deep in a hole! But don't despair - Filipina Mamas to the rescue! Mommy "Cher", Mommy "Marilyn Monroe" & Mommy "Tura Satana" intervene with Lucky's misfortune through jazz, poetry, comedy & dance. Trapeze Freaky Flip as opening act.

This is the way the world ends: with an intimate apocalypse. Two people struggle to unearth meaning in the events that brought them to this room. Part mystery, part love story, their subjective accounts ask the audience to determine where truth lies. "Beautiful and evocative" - Cincinnati City Beat

You loved them as kids! Now join the cast of the hit TV show "Pancakes, ah YES!" for their 10-Year Reunion, a fun-filled weekend of nostalgia, one-upmanship, relapses, and maybe even redemption. Growing up is hard!

2010 Hollywood Fringe Best in Physical Theater Award Winning troupe Four Clowns is back with their adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy of love & vengeance. “Daring & energetic, weird & wonderful.”–Huffington Post “his cast is gifted, GO!”–LA Weekly “skilled and true.”–Backstage www.fourclowns.org

Saucy Jack’s, a dark and seedy cabaret club presided over by the alluring Saucy Jack himself. The Super-fashion crime fighters the Space Vixens save the day by the Power of Disco. This award-winning musical has been performed to ecstatic audiences all over the world.

He doesn’t believe in anything and rejects all that’s good and holy. He’s the most famous living nihilist of this century. June 24 and 25 at the Neon Venus Theater at 8, 7023 Melrose. Limited seating, so make reservations now.

Is Jewish eroticism an oxymoron? You decide. Howard Lieberman, the star of 2010's Hollywood Fringe hit "55 Minutes of Sex, Drugs and Audience Particpation" (...a storytelling tour de force..."-Paul Birchall, LA Weekly) is back with an all new, totally irreverent improv show.

In Winner Takes All, self-involved but seductive beauty Ryker (Gavyn Michaels) convinces his two lovers (Hunter Lee Hughes and Adrian Quinonez) to fight over him. And we mean, really fight. Ryker's slave Simon (Alec Mapa) reluctantly serves as the referee.