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LOVE CHICKEN is a queer comedy about friendship, long-kept secrets and the making of well-meaning chaos. Nonbinary best friends Lolo and Yan's weekend of bonding and board games is crashed by unexpected visitors and a host of unresolved feelings. Shows: 6/5, 6/10, 6/18 @ McCadden Masks Required.

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.

In the world premiere of this musical dark comedy, an optimistic young woman is stricken by a mysterious illness and must navigate unsympathetic doctors, disbelieving friends, and her own depression as she fights to recover both her health and sense of hope.

Cantankerous Chicago columnist Mike Royko just may be the toughest man in Chicago as he takes on corporate greed, mobsters, celebrities, racism, and the Mayor of Chicago, in this multi-media solo show tour de force by Hollywood Fringe veteran Mitchell Bisschop. Tickets: hff22.co/7567

Desert Weeds is a dark comedy about four friends who wake up trapped, buried up to their necks, in a harsh desert. They struggle to survive and solve the mystery of how they got there all while keeping their fragile alliance intact as old wounds are opened and long simmering resentments resurface.

How my everyday life as a Hojo girl, Pathmark cashier, Santa Claus trainer, polka lover, kielbasy hunter, LA PTA President, 3-pt. shooter in a basketball league for moms 5’3” & under and a Tonight Show regular who “unexpectedly” got punched in the jaw on live TV…compelled me to write songs.

It’s Christmas Eve 2009 and Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC has a decision to make. An original musical parody of A Christmas Carol & It's A Wonderful Life by Valen Shore & Alison Zatta. Music direction by Taylor Williams (Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton). Sound design by Josh Millican (Six, The Band's Visit).

An all-ages puppet show devoted to social/emotional learning! Mr. Malcolm and his pals create music and rhythms in their lighthouse factory, but strange blotches start attacking the lamp! As it gets dimmer, everyone’s mood changes, and they have to discover what they can do to bring back the light!

Described as a “beautiful piece of solo artistry,” Too Big for Her Britches, is a one-woman musical dramedy with 7 live, original songs and 25 characters. It's a “must-see rollercoaster of emotions." A battle between her Inner Shame and Inner Warrioress to break generational trauma and love.

Chambers Stevens, Emmy nominated actor and award winning playwright, will be performing his one-man show “It’s Who You Know” for One Night Only!

Dreams are for losers. MaryLee, 'Princie', knows, she's been dreaming all her life. Now in her 50's, she's finally determined to ditch the dreaming and start being a do-er to create a fulfilling life she's always wanted. Before she can succeed, a few people in her life are going to have to go.

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"it is indispensible to have at one's bedside table a good book, a good glass of scotch, and a french piece of french toast" -Ernest Hemmingway we're having a feast, a fluxus feast! you're invited! to the feast! the fluxus feast! bring a friend. they may be eaten, they may be eaten or maybe no

a 20 year old who is both scum of the earth and God to all men at the same time. watch him writhe, suffer, and flail around on stage in a shocking thrash.

Kirsten, a drama teacher, is a guest on a satirical game show where pundits that represent different factions of American culture debate what American heroes get in the history books! In this zany fast-paced comedy, audience members get to vote and decide- who gets in the books and who is history!?