Drama

Celebrate our World Premiere with a series of one act plays that will make you laugh, make you cry, and also have you asking why.

Nadia is a Mexican teenager who falls in love with Octavio, an undergrad student. After some years together, they find themselves trapped in a cycle of violence that seems to keep escalating. Promises is the story of a relationship where violence is dressed up as love.

Fresh off her 1961 Academy Awards win and a recent brush with death, Elizabeth Taylor is struggling with her hardest role yet: herself. An intimate look at the movie star’s early life, career, and loves as she grapples with the culture of celebrity and her place as Hollywood’s brightest star.

"American Pain" traces the development of the opioid crisis through the eyes of a single mother living in West Virginia.

Jo has been called a lot of things during her life - but which ones are true? And who gets to decide that?! In this comedy (with a few heart wrenching turns), we follow her from ages 5 to 50, as she tries to figure it all out. Nominated for Best Solo Play, Performer, and Director by Broadway World!

*HFF22 BEST MUSICAL* WINNER – BEST OF BROADWATER– HFF22 WINNER- BEST OF THE FRINGE - TVO AWARDS WINNER – PICK OF THE FRINGE – HFF22 NOMINEE – TOP OF THE FRINGE – HFF22 NOMINEE – BEST WORLD PREMIERE – HFF22 NOMINEE – INTERNATIONAL FRINGE ENCORE SERIES– HFF

WEST COAST PREMIERE: RESERVOIR DOGS MEETS THE THREE STOOGES. CRIMINAL GENIUS, TAKES PLACE IN A SUBURBAN MOTEL ROOM. "Transients, lovers, the haunted and the hunted, the desperate and the dumb, each strut and fret their hour upon stage and then are heard no more.."

HOLLYWOOD ENCORE PRODUCER'S AWARD!! Two sisters, a drifter, and wolves. "It's In Our Bones" is a drama of deep secrets, dark feelings, and supernatural powers. Ultimately, the play covers, with some humor, themes of loss, mental illness, mysterious supernatural emergence.

Crude is an award winning darkly humorous drama (not authorized by Motley Crue) about a band who rose up from the streets of Hollywood now available to watch on Video On Demand! https://asylumcombinedartform.vhx.tv/products/crude

An unexpected through line disrupts a college student’s grief, leaving her to wonder if she’ll ever get back up on her feet.

This West Coast Premiere from the award-winning Welsh playwright Owen Thomas, starring acclaimed Welsh actors Gareth John Bale and Gwenllian Higginson, tells the hauntingly beautiful story of a couple who fall in love and decide to leave Wales in order to build a new life in the New World.

What happens to us after we die? Learn first hand from a man who experienced the afterlife. In this interactive show set in a world of magic and illusion, Larry uses comedy, magic, games and puppets to recreate his near death experience and share some lessons he learned on his journey back.

In a movie theater in the 1960s, a conversation breaks out that connects Hamlet, Einstein, Allen Ginsberg and... the ultimate truth of the universe. Join us for a surreal, fascinating, mysterious, and above all, hilarious evening traveling through spacetime with this amazing ensemble cast.

"from 0 to 25" tells the story about Uziel a queer person looking to be happy. After 24 attempts to find love Uziel recounts a few chapters of his love life to a new opportunity to be loved. Will 25 be the right one?

When a college girl is admitted to a psych hospital, she wonders why she feels more at home with a truck-driving womanizer or a devil-fearing Zumba dancer than with anyone she knows outside the hospital. Could it be that the typically dark world of the psych ward is more forgiving than our own?