ROOTS: An Evening of World Premiere Shorts is four wonderfully strange world premiere short plays that usher audiences through the complexity of the human condition.

“Death and the Fool” is a contemporary adaptation of the comedic play “Mistero Buffo” written by Nobel Prize winning playwright Dario Fo. Fiasco! incorporates physical theatre techniques to bring awareness to timeless issues of morality, dignity, survival, corruption, and power.

NEW PLAY ABOUT PLAYWRIGHT LYNN MANNING “Voice from the Village’” written and directed by Melvin Ishmael Johnson is based upon one of Los Angeles greatest playwrights, Lynn Manning and his in real time visit to Skid Row Studios.

10 vignettes provide insight into the world that women have to live in - one full of casual sexism and ignorance. Both comedic and serious, the one act 'TRASH' seeks to enlighten and resonate with a willing audience, as well as empower all women, whose lives have inspired this play.

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer." A DEVISED, COLLABORATIVE JOURNEY INTO THOSE PERFECT LIFE MOMENTS. Surrender anew to sweet shade on bone hot days, barefoot in the dew & daffodils, celestial nights on shimmer. Remember when Summer lasted all Summer long?

Positive Secrets is a unique and powerful look at the lives of real people living with HIV and AIDS. Crafted from interviews with young people dealing with the disease, it uses, drama humor And dance to get everyone to remember that HIV/AIDS is real and preventable.

"And Now It's All This!" follows the infamous quote John Lennon made that "the Beatles were bigger than Jesus." This is a must-see for any Beatles fan.

The Institute for The Opposite of Longing can cure that thing deep in the pit of your body. But what happens when its owners and operators can’t let go of the little boy they had to give back? Please enter the Opposite of Longing Chamber. We can help you. The process is simple.

From 2015 TOP OF FRINGE winner Orgasmico: in the strange world of Sam Mobean, institutions of justice, religion, and marriage all get thrown ass-backwards into a web of absurdity and insanity. Only three things are certain: 1) Sam Mobean will die. 2) Sam Mobean is dead. 3) Long live Sam Mobean

August and Bobbie have been broken up for weeks. Bobbie comes back to the apartment she left to pick up the last of her things. Like a manic, time-jumping fever dream- they recreate all of their highs and lows of their relationship. Only, they have differing memories and perceptions of the events.

A one-act satirical dramedy based on the true-life events of Lindsay Shepherd, grad student, who sparked major controversy by posting a secret recording of a tribunal where she was accused of violating human rights law for showing a video of Jordan Peterson discussing gendered pronoun use in class.

What happens when you find yourself trapped- alone, in a room with the last person you ever wanted to see again?

Prodigy follows the young life of Jin-hee Song, a gifted Korean girl growing up in America. Jin-hee is bright, odd, and fearless, like all kid champions. She loves her piano and her deepest desire is to make her father proud, but her light is challenged as she reaches for her dreams.

Sometimes the things we fear are not always the creatures that go bump in the night. The Monsters of Man: A Supernatural Anthology combines an element of the everyday with a splash of the supernatural.

1973, West Virginia. Following a cave collapse, 5 coal miners struggle to survive the dwindling supply of oxygen, the lack of food and water, the unravelling sense of passing time, and, even more threatening, their own competing natures. Learn More at NewYorkIsDead.Net