Comedy

Oh no! Frank and Avis have lost their nephew in a busy mall! Maybe if they wait on that bench he'll show up. Maybe everything will be okay. Maybe if they wait long enough, their lives will have meaning. Maybe somebody's coming to rescue them. Maybe... wait, why are they sitting there again?

2012 Backstage Critics' Pick! TU presents 25 NEW original short plays featuring a handful of the company’s top actors playing over 50 characters in just one hour. Fusing comedy, drama and everything in between, it's a complete theatrical journey in 60 minutes! Speed theatre at its best!

It's two weeks to opening night and there's no play, but who cares when love triangles, mistaken identities, and a hangman's noose are involved?! Come see what our moms are calling the "funniest play ever written!"

WINNER: BEST INTERNATIONAL, NOMINEE: DUENDE DISTINCTION A sparkling new comedy about a middle-class Nigerian 3rd grader who dreams of becoming poor to win the heart of her popular classmate. A fresh glimpse of African life about a girl eager to reject herself in to order to feel like she belongs.

Comedy, Death, and a New Ferrari is a funny and heart-warming one woman show about a young college grad, Jen, who tries to convince her mother as to why she wants to become a comic. In doing so, Jen relives her joke-cracking father's battle with cancer to lead her straight to the answer.

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly in a civilized manner? Don't make me sick...

The team that brought you last year's fringe hit RED BASTARD comes back swinging. Butt Kapinski invites you to co-star in this filthy, funny film noir fantasy. Kick reality to the curb! Play in a make-believe city of dark dreams and bad similes! Oh, and there's been a horrible murder.

Miles Merbinau aims--with good reason, he believes, and at any cost--to shut down the world's longest-running play, Agatha Christie's THE MOUSETRAP. Merbinau's frustrations, wild theories, and ruminations on the contrariness of success set the stage for this one-act comedy by Scott K. Ratner.

Based on 15 years as a street performer,Andrew Potter presents a series of stories, songs and video about this unusual career.Stories include “Living in a Beer Tank”,his bizarre home, and “The 3rd Egg”,his first routine. Against this backdrop is the notion of pursuing a non-traditional career.

This two man one man show chronicles the trials and tribulations of a lonely loser named Tim, as told by the Left and Right sides of his brain. It just might change your life! Maybe.

*From the Winner Best Musical (DOOMSDAY CABARET): When a cash-strapped theatre troupe capitalizes on the 40th Anniversary THE EXORCIST with a hilarious rock parody, they unleash HELL! Heads will spin and demons will dance in The Rock Musical Event of 2013! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!

What was it like being a "nerd" before it was cool? Follow performer Ashphord Jacoway into a world of magic and wonder as we conquer cultural and social stereotypes, in and outside the geek community, and level up our confidence through poetry, spoken word, and movement.

Muggsy is a macaw and a reincarnation of - well, never mind. You'll spend an hour laughing and maybe thinking - wait a minute - why am I laughing?

After a less than ideal youth-hood, a spunky Indian girl in Indiana turns to the popular teen movies of the time (She's All That, Cruel Intentions, Bring It On, etc.) for guidance on how to master high school. Because real life is totally just like the movies… right?

A man experiencing a crisis of faith becomes obsessed with an enigmatic rock band. Solo performer Alex Knox takes us on a highly personal journey of self-discovery with stops at untamed beaches on Kauai, sweaty recording studios in L.A., and a tiny town in Israel that hides an earthshaking relic.