Comedy

Part of Fringe Central's nightly free programming includes Fringe Cabaret, a changing variety act that includes snippets of different Fringe productions.

The Marriage Proposal, Anton Chekhov’s one-act comedy, forces us to think about relationships. Its three protagonists desperately hope that a marriage will occur, but can’t stop bickering long enough to bring it off. Is this a forecast of how wedded life will be?

Committed is a 2 person sketch comedy show starring Kevin & Annie Laferriere who are married; not siblings. I know it could be both but in this case it is not. The show was written by, directed and starring [you already said that] Kevin & Annie. Come and enjoy! Again, we're not brother and sister.

On my 33rd birthday I revisit my "comical" life events. Surviving three wars in the Middle East, losing my virginity in a brothel, courtesy of uncle Fady! Moving to Los Angeles where I perpetually try to balance sex, Catholic guilt, family and auditions, basically my own internal wars.

*** FRINGE 2015 BEST COMEDY WINNER *** LIVE FROM BURBANK, IT'S EDGAR ALLAN POE! Tear up the planks at Edgar Allan Poe's very own late-night variety show with enough guests and spooky surprises to drive you INSANE!

Looking to Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton as spirit guides, a young woman works to overcome the complications of reality as she pursues her "Old Hollywood" dream. An inspirational solo performance show with a silent film twist.

When you’re a bullied, weak Greek Australian boy, have the physique of a stick insect, resemble a pretty girl, talk to yourself often, inspired by American icons and want to be Chinese; your choices in life are often limited to becoming a comedian, an actor or comedian.

Ash and her friends want to throw the perfect college graduation party. They probably shouldn’t have invited a homicidal maniac. Killer Party is a concert reading of a serial musical, a live whodunnit, and a Sunday night party with cocktails.

A one-woman show completely based off past and present Voicemails. As each character soliloquies through a beautiful 60 min. 1 woman show assisted with music, dance, song and soul rolled up the most blunt way possible.

Charlotte Baxter spent her whole life following a checklist that she made for herself as a child. At 24, she realizes that she's unhappy, so she leaves her husband and starts over without a plan.

What happens when you bring two of the hottest & coolest comedy groups together for one big show? It's Fringetastic! Voted #1 best theatre group on the LA Hotlist, DUCHESS RIOT is All-Female & All-Funny and they're joined by the hilariously clever & award-winning comedy of THE SIDE EFFECTS!

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.

If you've seen THE SOUND OF MUSIC, you know what happens to Maria and the von Trapps – they do, in fact, climb ev'ry mountain. But what about Uncle Max and the Baroness? Come find out in MAX & ELSA, a subversive comedy featuring the two people for whom the hills were NOT alive with… well, you know.

Boss: The Untold Tony Danza Story is a play loosely (and we mean LOOSELY) based on the life and career of America's favorite son and national treesure, Tony Danza! This comedy won the 2014 Encore Producers Award! New cast, new script, new director and a "brand new life"!

It's one show of five 10-minute plays about miscommunication and the longing for connection. Subjects range from sporty nerds, sub-dom relationships and aliens to surrealistic challenges and panic attacks! We're the 5 SIRENS, five female playwrights, and we will captivate you with our songs.