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“Conversations ‘Bout the Girls” A celebration of breasts in all their many names, shapes and sizes!

This is a love story about a break-up. When Adam discovers his girlfriend Kelsey has cheated, he decides to fix his broken heart with surgery and must face the consequences. Driven by an all female production team, Emergency Operation tackles heartbreak with humor, wit, and love.

A journey through history and myth exploring the powerful connection between magic and music. Written by award-winning filmmaker and magic inventor, Chris Philpott and starring actor, musician and magician Riccardo Berdini (Italian Musical Theater Performer of the Year, Penn and Teller Fool Us).

Steve Budd plays a New Age couple who met BEFORE they met, an artist with a soft spot for homeless guys, a pair of Metal Heads who want to get married on 6-6-6, and more. Created from interviews. Best of the 2016 SF Fringe Fest. Satisfy your voyeuristic tendencies about how others look for love!

South-Asian writer/performer Rasika Mathur brings the "model minority" stereotype to its knees, demonstrating how undetected lifelong mental issues wreak havoc on an otherwise talented, intelligent girl hustling in Hollywood. But it's a comedy!

In an abandoned Wild West town, well after the Gold Rush, an old man is taken care of every day by his faithful companion. Into their midst comes a female force-of-nature who will by day's end change both of their lives forever.

Told with a Magic 8 Ball, this one man performance by George Steeves tells the story of his trials and tribulations living on the autism spectrum. From childhood to adulthood, experience his challenges in school, with dating and trying hard to fit in.

2 solo shows in 1 hour. L.A. HOMEBODY: The true story of a woman in her house. Written and performed by Shauna McGarry. Runtime: 30 minutes. THE ANXIETY CURE: The true story of a woman on the campaign trail. Written and performed by Lizzie Prestel. Runtime: 30 minutes.

HOT DATES details memorable moments in the life of a Bisexual Jewish American Ivy League Punk Rock Pothead Princess. Interspersed with dating scenes, Shira takes us on a journey of her life- from girlhood milestones to attempted womanhood. The show features song, dance, storytelling, & mischief.

THANKSGIVING (a dysfunctional family comedy) 

 Chloe Patterson has invited her perfect fiancé to what she will make sure is the perfect Thanksgiving, despite her very imperfect family. She's provided for every possible contingency... except the unexpected guest: a Las Vegas stripper. 



VEEP meets HOUSE OF CARDS as crisis PR firm Klein & St. Jude battle dark forces, and themselves, to rescue a woman’s company from a conspiracy to crush her. Buzz feed's #1 Most Anticipated Fringe Play! Don't miss secret immersive prelude/finale.Details: www.darkartsplay.com

Actor/musician, Jeremy Ebenstein, through story and song, takes audiences through his humorous, inspiring, yet often heartbreaking story of living a life with Asperger's Syndrome.

A super one-man show about an actor’s struggle with identity. Paul Yen explores the different masks Asian Americans wear through the eyes of Batman, Superman, and Spiderman. Yen reimagines their origin stories weaving a historically humorous tale of the Asian American experience.

At the end of the world, the only gay kid in school and one of the guys who used to beat him up find themselves trapped in their old high school. Provocative, hilarious, and heartbreaking, DEAD BOYS is about two modern American young men who have to face fate, race, sexuality - and each other.

In today’s ‘Age of Anxiety’, two couples tell two more-or-less modern love stories: They fall in love, fall apart, and fail to connect in this complex and thoroughly modern exploration of emotional defense mechanisms.