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Urban Theatre Movement presents Urban Unrest: a series of original one act plays ranging from the absurd to the surreal, creatively tied together by fusing elements of spoken word, movement, and music. Urban Unrest features some of the founding voices of Urban Theatre Movement.

A spicy series of vignettes that will leave you thirsty! Ten characters fall in and out of bed with each other, performed by only two actors. This romp portrays the various relationships and casual encounters one can imagine happen all over Los Angeles. Come take a peek with us. ;)

Recalling her remarkable childhood in a scientist’s home, a young woman has to face a difficult reality— she has been, and always will be, a chimpanzee.

When a struggling bakery owner is faced with foreclosure, he must work together with his idiot brother to save his livelihood, despite the efforts of a scorned businessman, a potential rabid Sasquatch situation, and a bitter ex-employee determined to lace his baguette dough with rat poison.

A warm, funny, touching, old-fashioned musical about sexual obsession. John uses sex to seek love and connection. Marty uses alcohol to escape his pain. They try to build a life as their demons and guardian angels battle: lust, booze and despair vs. recovery and hope. Can they find a happy ending?

The worlds unsolved murders.... What if they were at the hands of one man.... An immortal man. A man driven by his own madness. Or was it the woman who loved him? The innocence he could not escape. She tells her story... Her life of being, Jack the Rippers mistress

Klaus Kinski is one of the most celebrated and controversial actors in the history of world cinema. The reckless abandon with which he approached both life and art left him tortured, demonized and worshiped. He now resurrects to shake your souls with one last command performance.

Meet Henry Lewis. Everything he touches turns to SOLD! A stylized, high intensity show about one man's drive to be a 'somebody' in New Zealand in the late 1980's, which sees him enter the fast world of property...

The School of Night gets medieval on your ass with a raucous blend of song, sex, spectacle, horror, gender-swapping, clashing steel and versified bombast such as only the most controversial playwright in the English-language canon could conjure.

Trixie: The Musical follows its quirky leading lady into the comedic depths of psychotherapy. This polarizing therapist is dressed to impress and out to save the world. With dark humor, irreverent music, and a flair for the dramatic, nothing is off limits when Trixie is in session.

Ever wonder what the show would look like if Sonny & Cher were still on the air today...and black?

Two strangers rent the same room back to back, week after week, in a commercial building in Hollywood. Nina is exploring Orgasmic Meditation. Zorro is on lunch break from the Walk of Fame.

Chicago cops, Joey and Denny, find their friendship put on the line when a domestic disturbance call takes a wrong turn. A harrowing journey into moral gray areas where trust and loyalty struggle for survival against a sobering backdrop of pimps, prostitutes and criminal lowlifes.

A rare opportunity for a woman to be her true, nightmarish self in her rented accommodation uninterrupted by flatmates. Uninterrupted by flatmates because they're all dead. Thankfully.

A deliciously dark comedy about an unlikely friendship between a socially inept young boy & a morbidly obese novelist. They both seek refuge from a dismal reality in the worlds of their respective imaginations, exploring the dangers of living solely in the space where imagination & memory converge.