Comedy

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!

Delilah Dix is in the slammer for smuggling an orphan in an endangered koala skin over state lines. In this 1 hour maniacal musical comedy, take a trip down memory lane with our biggest, brightest, currently disease free, America's Showgirl!

Keaton Talmadge (great granddaughter of Buster Keaton) drops the spotlight on a "straight" young woman who unexpectedly falls for- a woman. Preconceived notions, unpredictable love and a killer cat named Sneaky Creeps. Define: different examines what happens when you remove gender from love.

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.

"The First time I hire an accountant, and..I'm...Audited!?" A True Story of one man's Hilarious battle to defend himself against the IRS using receipts, anxiety, loads of diet soda (and a hint of creativity). What would you risk to defeat the most powerful agency in the US?

Actor, blogger and Celeb Chef Ayinde delivers a hilarious multimedia tale from his love life, being black and a life long vegan. Yes there will be snacks.

After versions of Showgirls, Jurassic Park, Top Gun, Ghostbusters, Teen Witch, Home Alone, and Roadhouse, 30 MINUTE MUSICALS does it again with summer blockbuster, INDEPENDENCE DAY. Evil aliens invade the earth and get a lesson in good ole American ass-kicking in musical theatre fashion.

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.

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.

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.

She didn't MAKE make mistakes, she DATED them. In this fast-paced, hilarious, one woman "tour de force" Tiffany Phillips invites us on her roller coaster of a ride, through the minefield of love. Fasten your seat belts!

Harry and Sam are best friends who like to pass the time posing outlandish questions. These questions, shrouded in indifference, allow each man to question the other without asserting his fears. Eventually, time passes and the indifference melts into destruction--changing their friendship forever.

3-time Hollywood Fringe Physical Theatre Award winners, Four Clowns is back with a wild two-man show. Former millionaire & convicted tax evader TR Hamer has his world re-collapse as he sad-eats a pile of marshmallows, crawls into a bag, and falls in love many times while doing an IRS-mandated show.

Tim Tebow is a hapless benchwarmer whose prayers are answered when a group of angels decides to turn the second-stringer into the second coming of Jesus Christ. But another spirit takes an interest in Tim Tebow's fate, and this mysterious being's intentions may not be so pure...

In this one-woman show, Marie Lively shares the true story of how a naive Christian temp became a corporate smut queen for one of the largest pornographers in town.