Dark Comedy

Follow Marlena McHenry's drag persona, Mercutia Falstaff, in an exploration of loneliness, guilt, fear, and love. Through the characters he plays, watch Mercutia be forced to grapple with his own reality in the face of grief. Expect four characters, two hours, and one fabulous mustache.

It’s 1543. A Portuguese ship sets sail with goods from Japan. Kira, a Japanese girl, is isolated on the ship and discovered by the naive Portuguese, Maria. A complicated historial feud is distilled through the two young girls. Can we find a sense of home within the people we’re trained to oppose?

A sketch comedy show all about milk. It’s post-apocalyptic. It’s creamy. It’s sometimes revolting (yes, people have walked out during one of the sketches). We ask the central question: when milk goes extinct, how will people remember it? Hopefully as something worth drinking.

Four carpenters, while building scenic elements for a show, expose more than they thought they would when the day began. All elements built will be raffled off.

The bogeyman goes to therapy to apologize for haunting and terrifying the therapist when he was a child.

Hairstylist Nora brings her best friend, Elle, to her soon-to-open salon for a haircut. However, Elle’s all-encompassing anxiety leaves her unwilling to sit in the chair. Devolving into a scene of catastrophizing, this is a sometimes silly play confronting friendship, trust, fear and growth.

Back for the first time! Come and check out this New Standup Special from The Lord of Darkness as he hilariously covers topics from his origins as a ruthless warlord known as Vladimir the Impaler to dating in Los Angeles!

When Duncan throws a dinner party for his long term partner, a secret that threatens to derail his entire life threatens to rear its ugly head. Having serious consequences for himself, and the people he claims to care for the most. A blend of Mystery, rom com, and psychological thriller.

3 Short Plays Concerning LOVE & DEATH

Pers and Tri find themselves in a room with no way out and no memory of who they are or how they got there. What comes next? That's entirely up to them. Omnia Motus is a darkly comedic play developed in response to the overwhelming urge to numb when faced with the nation-wide mental health crisis.

Sex, guns, and dildos! Riley, a young non-binary dynamo, moves from LA to small-town Montana to open a sex toy shop. Hilarious songs abound in this irreverent hourlong musical comedy western about steamy romance, sinister plots, religion, guns, being yourself, and some very sexy toys.

In an epic one-hour comedy-variety show, Los Angeles Drag Duo Annie and Lorelei come face-to-face with oil giants from ExxonMobil who threaten to build a fracking drill over their home drag bar.

We all navigate life differently. Some people use laughter, some people go to therapy, some people bottle things up, some people lie to themselves or to others. For Lily it's different: she sees everything as a movie.

HFF DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP WINNER 2024. When Amireh, the matriarch of a British-Iranian family goes missing, her husband and children are thrust into an off-beat spiritual journey that forces them to contend with secrets, infidelity, death ceremonies, an investigation and the psychedelic drug DMT.

We're hosting a special assembly to welcome an alumnus to share his children's book: THE GOOD LITTLE LISTENER. Since becoming an uncle, he has re-examined the books he read as a child and realized that he may have been taught some bad lessons. In this solo comedy, see if you learned them too!