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Musician/performer Esquzito conjures up notorious characters of "The District" in an adaptation of a Danny Barker (1909-1994) tale from The Last Days of Storyville. Interpreting Barker's "lies embellished with truth,” Esquizito makes New Orleans' redlight district and the birth of Jazz come alive.

Lisa Verlo's solo show HOLLYWOODN'T is a personal journey across Hollywood's unsettling sexual landscape and casting couches of LA. Directed by and developed with Jessica Lynn Johnson, it is a musical memoir told with candor and insight into the life of an actress before women dared to speak up.

SICKBOY is a collection of stories about filth & healing, as told by the chronically ill gay who lived them. Tim puts it all out there with extreme frankness, or as the Chicago Reader put it, he, “...uses boyish candor to blend absurdity, pathos, and graphic sex in ways that are deeply humanizing."

In the circle that is Widows Anonymous, five characters come together to share stories, secrets and the brutal humor that is being a widow in modern times. As they discover, there is no short cut, no alternate route, and the only way out is through. Welcome to the front lines.

An SAT tutoring session takes a shocking turn when the teacher realizes that his new student is not who she claimed to be, in this intense nerve-racking drama. | www.bluekissplay.com

Cupid is given one last shot by God to save modern love or be sent to where all the people fired by God go... New Jersey.

A night with one man, one corpse, one fly, and a history of loneliness. Inspired by a true event, NEAR DAWN is a solo play about belonging and solitude, drawing influence from the culture and tradition of rural China in the early 1980s.

Five short comedies exploring the middle age white male struggle to fit in during these confusing times. FANDOM - navigating politics, POLITE RACISM - analyzing ethnicity, SUICIDE PACT - tolerating millennials, BRITTLE TROMBONE - contemplating economics, FANTASY FOOTBALL - grasping identity

We watch Lacy, a teen, wrestle with her MONKEY MIND (Played by characters who sing and dance around her on stage). Life's troubles drive her to near suicide till she learns to "stay in the now" and control her out of control brain. Suicide theme and some swearing.

LOST VOICES - Three Women, Aarthi. Helena. Simone. Today their stories may determine the fate of 7.6 Billion people and they don't even know it. DEATH UNIT - Texas Prison. Two Men. A dead body. Elevator not working. Doors locked. Lights flicker off and on. What else could go wrong?

In this half hour comedic farce dimwit local business owner Sylus Rothchild is running for president. Yes he is unqualified, not very bright and involved in criminal enterprises but what candidate isn't. Will he succeed? You decide!

6 Vignettes about women in the workplace that happen to take place in a restroom.

When her 6 year-old girl is abducted, and the police can’t/won’t help, Sarah goes after the drug dealer she is convinced took her daughter, despite his claims of innocence. How far should she go to get to the truth, when she has no actual proof, just her mother's intuition, and what if she’s wrong?

Sex blogger star turned novelist Ethan crashes the snowy B&B of the gifted but obscure novelist Olivia. Each crave what the other possesses. As attraction turns to sex, they inch closer to getting what they want but at what cost to their complicated relationship when the past is only a click away.

Jack and Erica find love after a one-night stand. She wants to be a famous actress and he's a mysterious Irishman who has the money to make her dreams come true – until a Russian screenplay, two million dollars in unmarked bills and taboo desires threaten to tear them apart. How much is too much?