comedic

Award-winning physical comedy and clown troupe Four Clowns will take the students through a warm-up and a couple of exercises and then show them how they used those very exercises to create material in their current production of Four Clowns presents That Beautiful Laugh.

“What’s a nice girl like you NOT drinking in a place like this?” Tara Handron discards clichėd depictions of recovery in her portrayal of Hope and numerous other female alcoholics (some sober and some not so sober) stemming from her thesis research on the subject.

"Why is it that the guys you like, never seem to like you back?" If you ever have asked yourself this- and let's be honest you're going to a theater festival, so you have- come, sit back, and get ready to laugh at someone else's crushes, heartbreaks and seriously awkward photos.

A simple summer of sex, drugs and escape goes horribly, terribly, hysterically wrong in Alexa Fitzpatrick’s adventure on tour with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer Walks.

Autumn and other play is a collect of three one act plays from up and coming playwright Peter Hsieh. These which, also include 'The Long and Lonely Howl' and 'TimeCode Rewind' explore many different subjects through comedy, drama, and surrealism.

***SELECTED BEST OF FRINGE 2012*** VOICES IN MY HEAD: A LIFE is a darkly comic coming-of-age story in our media-mad nation starring BILL RATNER - the voice of Flint on G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken & Family Guy; Donnel Udina in Mass Effect, movie trailers, and TV disaster shows.

"Once upon a time the world forgot to laugh..." That Beautiful Laugh conceived by Orlando Pabotoy joins 2011 Hollywood Fringe Top of the Fringe winners, 4 Clowns and Porter’s Macbeth director, Turner Munch for a show about the pursuit of laughter and what makes it so beautiful.

A sparkling comedy written by Mark Twain in 1989, yet undiscovered until 2003. When the brilliantly talented but desperately broke painter Jean-François Millet learns that his art would be more valuable if he were dead, he hatches a scheme to save the day that will hurt your sides with laughter.

A musical comedy that follows the adventures of Natasha, a citizen of Crapistan, who has come to America, desperate to be a "True American". Natasha the Mail Order Bride is a cross between Lucille Ball and a female Borat. Produced by David Svengalis. PG-13.

The 80's was a time before (gasp!) cell phones or computers. Can you imagine such a time existed? Madonna was just starting and she was even a little chubby then. This fun retrospective multimedia show is a personal love letter of coming of age (like totally) 80's style.

Co-written by David Wain (WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER), SEX is a crazy ensemble comedy with a plot too ridiculous to discuss. Part scripted, part improv, WIENERS AND BOOBS is full of laughs, songs, dance numbers and more! Directed by Joe Flanders and Graham Bowlin.

Mutineer Theatre Company returns with a world premiere comedy adventure, "The Pirate Laureate of Port Town." As the bloodthirsty crew of the Chartreuse heads to port, ship’s poet Finn must choose between joining the lawless raid or warning the town to save childhood sweetheart Sandy.

What matters more - the size of the boat, the motion of the ocean or Jeremy Lin? Find out as you're whisked on a wild visit to an Asian massage parlor in NYC and offered a rare glimpse into a surprising, comical and sometimes sad world generally seen through almond-shaped eyes.

A Dangerous, Seductive, Comedy Monster with a mission to charm, disarm, shock & seduce. His target: you. After 5-star reviews & sold-out shows across the world, America's premiere bouffon unleashes a feast of biting wit, mischievous improvisation, & physical prowess in the woods of Holly.

A PhD. physicist and renaissance nerd and a PhD oceanographer and all around card walk into a theater... their indefatigable sense of wonder and love affair with science are shared with words, music, humor, and powerpoint. Who knew two Phd.s could be so entertaining?!