World Premiere

ENCORE WINNER! Even If It’s Wrong is a funny and heartfelt story of how a middle-aged man finds himself back in Nebraska helping his Dad cope with his Mom’s Alzheimer’s. Selling a junkyard, saying good-bye to the house and getting Dad to move on are the tasks at hand…even if it’s wrong.

Narcissus & Echo is a dark comedy exploring the water shortage through music, movement, and Greek mythology.

Nicky by Boni B. Alvarez A World Premiere, Developed in the Coeurage CoLab Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, acclaimed Los Angeles playwright Boni B. Alvarez transforms the world of 1800’s Russia into present-day Palm Springs in the World Premiere of Nicky.

A deliciously dark comedy about an unlikely friendship between a socially inept young boy & a morbidly obese novelist. They both seek refuge from a dismal reality in the worlds of their respective imaginations, exploring the dangers of living solely in the space where imagination & memory converge.

If life is what you make it, can't death be? A dark comedy.

Alex is very depressed and his girlfriend left him last night. He gets drinks with his best friend/roommate Frankie to take his mind off it. But when he meets their waitress, he thinks she's attractive—so he imagines their entire relationship together before he actually meets her.

Social media can bring us together . . . and tear us apart.

RealQueerStories in collaboration with Asylum, One City One Pride and the City of West Hollywood presents #LastDance. A show within a show where things get real once the makeup comes off.

Sick of it all but too afraid to call it quits for real? Weigh the pros and cons of cryogenically freezing yourself for a month, a year, or at least until whatever you're trying to avoid is a thing of the past.

Before there was a church, there was The Tomb. The true story of a young Egyptian who imprisoned himself in a tomb to learn the truth about the Resurrection.

2017 PICK OF THE FRINGE! Deep inside each human a Beast waits to be born—in claws, teeth and violence. Society represses it. Rebels embrace it. One woman will be transformed by it. A Horror Musical Written/Directed by Erik Blair. Music/Lyrics by Daniel Sugimoto (creator of HFF 2016's Broadway Noir)!

EXTENDED - Recipient of the Encore Producer's Award Best friends: We love them, we'd do anything for them, but sometimes, they can be an actual pain in the ass. Three comedic shorts explore the ups, downs and all arounds of best friendships through mischief, love, and the perfect tattoo.

Quantum Entanglement : The most romantic theory in physics. A love story on the smallest scale imaginable. Particles. Light. A portrait of a nuclear family awakened by a fractured past, and an experiment to connect them all. (Also there's a cat.) No science brain needed!

A "sexier, more violent Waiting for Godot," Definition of Man is a highly physical post-modern decreation myth that explores the struggles and impossibilities of communication from the perspectives of XX and XY.

Very-single Richard has just been set up on a hot date. Obvi Richard's like super nervous but with divine wisdom from a psychic what can go wrong? Oops! That's right, Jer-Bear's Masc4Masc only and Richard's a fem! This date's gotta go down without a glitch or Richard could be stuck single for good.