drama

In a script The New York Times says "crackles with bright wit and intelligence," this Broadway-hit play from Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies is a witty, intelligent look at what what happens when ordinary life is refracted throughout the lens of war.

"Grow a garden." The idea hits Paul like a meteor hitting the planet and he’s off. He reads the books, sows the seeds, and before his first tomatoes ripen, departs on a crusade to save the planet one precious seedling at a time. Saving himself, however, may prove the harder battle.

The comic story of a young lesbian whose family begins to fray when she tries to be frank with them about her sexual coming of age. Homophobia is not the family’s problem. It’s the prospect of candid conversation that throws them bizarrely off balance.

A raw and beautiful tale of the struggle to honor your inner artist. An intimate and immersive show that is both painfully funny as it is heartbreaking. Duality follows the story of a young artist through cultivated dance, live music and storytelling as she attempts to honor her creative calling.

A terrifyingly hilarious tale of dreams in LA consumed by cockroaches, both real and imagined. WINNER 2016 Fringe Runway Award for Best Costumes!

PRYOR TRUTH is a celebration of "Richard Pryor". Through Mudbone, one of the artist's most beloved characters, we learn who Richard was, who he dared to be, the battles he fought and the cost of greatness.

"COWBOY MOUTH" by Sam Shepard & Patti Smith One Act / One Hour Starring: Cait Mathis & Alton Ray Directed By: Erika Ackerman Production Head: Isabella Figueres FRI/SAT/SUN June 3 - June 26 2016 @ The New Collective LA 6440 Santa Monica Blvd. LA CA 90038 @cowboymouthHFF

Vincent van Gogh, hospitalized after his break with Gauguin and the “ear” incident, struggles to reconcile his two selves – the artist drawn to the sacred (and the edge of madness), and the lover who wants only to belong a family and to serve others.

a devised exploration of events that may or may not have occurred between 10 pm and 5 am last night ;) Presented by Midnight Central Theatre Co. - a company of friends dedicated to the bold and ridiculous, with roots in Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX.

A multimedia experience of film, music and live theater brings multi perception to the senses as Alice Wellington, TV Psychic and medium, enlightens others but struggles to see clearly on matters of her own heart.

"I would have ended my life,it was only my art that held me back". The show depicts Beethoven's rise as a musical genius,his struggles with love and society and focuses on his battle with his sickness, his fall, his regaining of hope through art and fight for immortality. Life is short,Art eternal.

In an unusually cold summer, 32 year-old Jim has kidnapped 17 year-old Charles, who he has fallen in love with at first sight. Trapped in Jim's basement, Charles is led through an existential journey to discover how it is that Lovers and Sad People always seem to hold up the World.

Mother. Daughter. Sister. Soldier. The Foundry Theatre Works presents Merri Biechler’s OCCUPATION, a riveting exploration of endurance in a terrorist ravaged America. Five women grasp for hope and humor in their new role as survivors. One Defends. One Searches. One Delivers. One Tattoos. One Buries.

*World Premiere* A struggling actor and his dog. A holy trinity of catastrophe involving our faithless actor, a virgin, and well lets just say an "ethical non-virgin." In the city of Los Angeles one thing is for sure: someone's gonna get screwed.

The lives of four thirty-somethings in Los Angeles intersect in unexpected and disastrous ways, proving that when it comes to affairs of the heart, "every lover is a soldier." *Note: tickets at the door are CASH ONLY and are subject to availability.