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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?

This Pulitzer Prize finalist play is an existential comedy...or maybe it’s not...about the beautiful mysteries of the human experience and what may happen when one holds on to them, never being able to make total sense of them, buries them — and then suddenly needs to talk about it all.

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.

A late night talk show interview with Charles Manson that explores his loveless childhood with his mother and how that shaped Charles' manipulation of the parentless Susan Atkins to murder. In the absence of love, darkness is born. Does our childhood dictate our future, or are we truly free?

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.

A comedic look at male masculinity through the eyes of five Irish-American men in a support group for a particular "shortcoming". They examine how their inherent curse has affected various aspects of their everyday lives and identities.

In 2002, UK comedian Henry Naylor & photographer Sam Maynard went to the Afghan Warzone. They were threatened by a war criminal, captured by the Mujahadeen, and almost blown up by the Taliban. This amazing true story received 12 five-star reviews and won 2 major awards at the 2022 Adelaide Fringe.

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!

A 90-min dramedy, “Still Awake" is about an ambitious late-night host with a sputtering career who must take momentous action for his show — and country — in the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.

Platinum Medalist! Best of Broadwater Encore! Best Solo nominee! SPLASH Female Voices nominee. Character comedy set in Philadelphia about the struggle to maintain one's authenticity while facing inevitable change. Filled with hope and profanity. Like "Mare of Easttown” but funny and with zero murder

In this funny one man show a divorced father — having been asked by his son to speak at his upcoming wedding — struggles to find the right words of wisdom to celebrate the newlyweds new lives together.

A story about a surviving twin's experience with grief, memory, and the colors of her childhood. FREE STREAMING OF SHOW JUNE 21ST 8:15PM PST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82719582538?pwd=MUhDWk1NOGVFMEl2VCtJbnJrL3dmdz09 827 1958 2538 yellowblue DONATIONS APPRECIATED Venmo: @jeannette_as

When a college girl is admitted to a psych hospital, she wonders why she feels more at home with a truck-driving womanizer or a devil-fearing Zumba dancer than with anyone she knows outside the hospital. Could it be that the typically dark world of the psych ward is more forgiving than our own?

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.