Provocative

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.

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?

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

S.O.S. is an original theatre piece about love and resilience in times of crisis. As loneliness and alienation reach epidemic proportions, a group of strangers find connection and meaning through love letters of the past, and by discovering the power that lies in small moments of humanity.

From Communist Czechoslovakia to Harlem, from exorcisms to orgasms, the daughter of a New Age Holocaust survivor is compelled to "cha-cha" away the wounds of her ancestors. Through the celebratory delight of her loose underwear, she finds freedom. And yes... it's funny.

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

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."

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

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.

Shakespeare: "What's the big deal, amiright?" With 20 years teaching and performing experience, married couple Krisha & Cam Deaver will give students of all ages a jump-start to Shakespeare. Maybe he's a big deal because he could change your life. Come see.

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?

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.

Strindberg’s Creditors is a powerful psychodrama, which has a comedic flare. Adolph, a painter is developing a neurological disorder, has been befriended by Gustav, who both inspires him and feeds his mind with doubts and insecurities about work, his wife, his masculinity and his mortality.

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.

Patch of Red is a provocative erotic thriller set in the night life of 1990's New York City. An art student witnesses a gruesome murder and is pursued by the killer.