World Premiere

The Fringiest of Fringe Shows from the Quirkiest of Querques, THE BEST OF ALBUQUERQUE FRINGE 2025 features mincing southern harpies, Belgian clowns, lost Elizabethan dramas, and an intrepid holiday goose -- all treading the boards to vie for the top prize at our whimsical festival.

A chance encounter between two women at a bus stop takes an unexpected turn in this dark comedy at the intersection of catcalling and violence. A lady-centric ensemble explores the hilarious, frightening, bizarre experience of street harassment through sketch, song & even a streetwise fashion show.

An epic tale of suspicion, murder, and love thrown asunder. Whose words can we believe when they all lead to the noose? Featuring live original music from Hardcore-Vaudeville/Art-Rock band House of Rabbits and mind-bending choreography from Post Mortem Movement Theatre.

The inseparable Lenore Sisters kept their harmonies tight from the vaudeville circuit to the recording studio. But their tune changed after the suspicious death of their promoter. Did one of the sisters get away with murder? Each sister tells her version of their fall from fame in words and song.

How does a boy survive in a Midwestern farm culture ruled by guns and football when chess is his favorite sport? A humorous look at a childhood philosophy carried into a legal career and the consequences of that to one's love life, livelihood, and liver.

A tale of courage in the face of a disapproving world, SKANKY ME FROM KANKAKEE is an original coming-of-age rock musical about one boy’s journey to self-love and acceptance. Marc strives to escape his narrow-minded dead end town so that he can be free to be his true self! (skankyme.com) #skankyme

If you've seen THE SOUND OF MUSIC, you know what happens to Maria and the von Trapps – they do, in fact, climb ev'ry mountain. But what about Uncle Max and the Baroness? Come find out in MAX & ELSA, a subversive comedy featuring the two people for whom the hills were NOT alive with… well, you know.

It’s 1985. Madonna needs one more song for her album, and our band of musical misfits are all chasing that prized cover… when they’re not too busy chasing each other. Filled with fun, nostalgia and an original 80s style score, "POP!" is a love letter to one of music's most remarkable decades.

Acclaimed musical improv troupe, ROBOT TEAMMATE & THE ACCIDENTAL PARTY, premieres their original space(time) opera. Follow oddball inventor Bruce Greenstreet on his cosmic quest to correct the fallout from his time machine as he journeys to the fabled center of the universe: the Timeheart.

A botched suicide attempt has left poor Me's body in a coma, and his soul trapped somewhere between Heaven and Hell. Now, Me must literally battle his inner demons and confront his painful past in order to find rest. But will he return to the land of the living, or choose to go into the light?

Sex is easy. Love is hard. Sleeping Around interweaves the stories of nine very different people searching for intimacy and all connected by sex, relationships and the sometimes hysterical, sometimes crushing emotional baggage of both.

HFF15 BEST ENSEMBLE THEATRE! A F*cked-Up Fact-Based Fairytale, Cookie is a bruise-black comedy full of sex, drugs, suburban angst, and one original song about the joys of cutting. Cookie...will make you laugh, cry, and wince, with a rockstar cast of Sacred Fools members.

The devil, separated from her ex-husband God, brings two people together to prove who the real "sinner" is in this lively, sung-through pop/rock opera that mixes elements of Fosse, "Rocky Horror" and "Tommy" into a "sin"-fully sexy new concoction!

The VirginMotherWhore Project Presents... War for H.I.S.: An Evening of 3 One-Woman-Shows The War for Humanity:"A Place Called Home" by Satya Vanii The War for Innocence:"Full Glitz" by Heidi Lux The War for Our Souls:"Be:Jesus+Drugs=Beauty" by Lesley Asistio

Like, seriously. He's super dead. Not coming back.