Solo Show

Fresh off her 1961 Academy Awards win and a recent brush with death, Elizabeth Taylor is struggling with her hardest role yet: herself. An intimate look at the movie star’s early life, career, and loves as she grapples with the culture of celebrity and her place as Hollywood’s brightest star.

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The Pale Gypsy shares tales of travel, romance, and intrigue in this performance of original music, satire, and oddball humor! Themes in the Traveling Musical Revue run the gambit of love and mystery, to science fiction and fantasy- all infused with the dark whimsy of Writer/Producer, Chris Murphy.

How my everyday life as a Hojo girl, Pathmark cashier, Santa Claus trainer, polka lover, kielbasy hunter, LA PTA President, 3-pt. shooter in a basketball league for moms 5’3” & under and a Tonight Show regular who “unexpectedly” got punched in the jaw on live TV…compelled me to write songs.

An intimate look at the final moments of the life of the truly unique British comedian, Tommy Cooper. Reliving his past performances and looking back on his troubled life and relationships before his final, fatal performance Live on TV and before the Royal Family in 1984's Live at Her Majesty's.

Cantankerous Chicago columnist Mike Royko just may be the toughest man in Chicago as he takes on corporate greed, mobsters, celebrities, racism, and the Mayor of Chicago, in this multi-media solo show tour de force by Hollywood Fringe veteran Mitchell Bisschop. Tickets: hff22.co/7567

Looking in the mirror, Maria finds nothing but flaws. Suddenly, she’s jolted out of her critical self-assessment by a familiar inner voice. Bev, Maria's late mentor invites herself onstage to partner with Maria to unravel that nasty self-doubt - and she’s comin' right outta that mirror to do it!

Normal: Conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected. All of us at some times or in some ways feel like outsiders. That whatever it is that is normal does not include us. But when we enter a new culture, we actually are the outsider. An excellent vantage point to question the status quo.

After a drunk driver killed both his teenage children, Colin Campbell channeled his shock, anguish and rage into this tragic-comic exploration of our culture’s inability to talk about grief. Comedic and heartbreaking, profound and profane. Get ready for a rollicking bad time!

Imagine you only had minutes to decide what to take before your house burns down. What would you grab? Michael David Ker took his family photos, his surfboard, and sense of humor…The fire was just the grand finale of a year full of loss. A deeply personal show is full of humor, heartbreak, and hope.

Charley, a registered nurse, edutains through tunes and tales about what really happens in a hospital. She came to terms with her life as a nurse, and how through advocating for her patients she learned to advocate for herself.

Gen-Z drag queen Aura Sublime unravels her neuroses until she's bare, then reconstructs her image, in this shameless, irreverent, and cutting 30-minute solo play.

EMPANADA FOR A DREAM is one boy's story of growing up hard and fast in NYC.A tale of love, loss, heartache and forgiveness.An entertaining portrait of family and neighborhood set against the secret that destroys it all.It’s about growing up by getting out and coming back to one boy's Lower East Side

Why would anyone want to fall in love? What’s the payoff? Why would any sane person put themselves through this? Do we steer clear? A lot of questions I do not have answers to, but can safely say, I’m curious. Come join me on this one woman musical journey through a rollercoaster of romance.

When a college girl is admitted to a psych hospital, she wonders why she feels more at home with a truck-driving womanizer or a devil-fearing Zumba dancer than with anyone she knows outside the hospital. Could it be that the typically dark world of the psych ward is more forgiving than our own?