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After a critically acclaimed run in London, “Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?” comes to LA as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Turning the familiar joke into a comedic quest, the play follows the words in that joke as they try to figure out their meaning and reach the 'real world'.

In March 2019, Matt Almos (co-founder of Burglars of Hamm) attended the leadership training symposium for the Climate Reality Project, founded by Al Gore. In this workshop tailored for the LA creative community, he'll share what he learned about the crisis and the potential solutions.

ORANGUTAN is a haunting and absurd one-woman show about the mother of a brutish (slightly orange) would-be dictator, and the tribalism that’s tearing our country apart. FOR MEDIA/PRESS REVIEW TICKETS CONTACT THE PUBLICIST: KUKER & LEE PR at: SJKukerPR@gmail.com

HAMILTUNES LA, the original Hamilton: An American Musical singalong event, is at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival!

Octopi Wall Street is a more shellfish look at climate change. The play comes at the issue through a series of vignettes told from the perspective of human and non-human entities. The opening monologue won the 2019 Monologue Selection at the Region 8 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

On a ranch in Nevada, Grant Wilson rules a made-up nation through empty shows of power and ridiculous propaganda, with his family as his only subjects. When his son takes the mission too far and his daughter questions everything, Grant fights for control in the face of family, country, and reality.

Five short comedies exploring the middle age white male struggle to fit in during these confusing times. FANDOM - navigating politics, POLITE RACISM - analyzing ethnicity, SUICIDE PACT - tolerating millennials, BRITTLE TROMBONE - contemplating economics, FANTASY FOOTBALL - grasping identity

*PICK OF THE FRINGE* *BEST OF THE BROADWATER* In 1980, Lee Atwater was a scrappy Southern strategist. By 1990, he'd changed American politics forever. A new play about the legacy of the Bad Boy of the GOP, from the creators of HFF18 hits "Keeping Up With the Prozorovs" and "A Beast/A Burden".

Our journalists are in danger – being forsaken by their people and slaughtered for their pursuit of the truth. As a multidisciplinary piece performed in three different languages, Dying for Our Voices explores that pursuit’s high costs, its global impacts, and personal consequences.

Victim or accomplice? Trapped or willing agent? Melania Trump is an enigma. This comedy show aims to explore the various faces of FLOTUS, who really doesn’t care. Or does she? Do u? What are some of the stereotypes women exploit or fight to reverse? What is our complicity as the audience?

A charismatic mayoral candidate on his way to victory finds himself blindsided by a moment from his past that could derail his election. As entertaining as it is thought-provoking, Tethered unravels and examines the moral gray areas in both our daily lives and political realities.

What if the First Family put on a live musical TV special - just like the Brady Bunch - starring Ice Princess Ivanka, her numbnut brothers, a still-not-caring Melania, and a host of ex’s and deplorables. “The event quickly devolves into hilarious insanity.” (The Advocate) trumpfamilyspecial.com

Like a lot of people today, jaded campaign manager Tess Baker (think Jessica Jones meets Josh Lyman) is sick of politics. She’s just about ready to throw in the towel when somebody wakes up a candidate she can work with - Abraham Lincoln.

"A comedy as dark as this town's secrets..." The forced civility at a small town Mayor's debate shows cracks as the shallow and petty candidates dig deep on property taxes, parking meters and cupcake flavors, cracks that begin to reveal a secret horror that has paralyzed the town.

BECOMING PEACE, a One Woman Rhythmic Dramedy about Power, Culture, Violence and Nonviolence - explores the little known Power and Possibility of Nonviolence (Satyagraha/Ahimsa/Peace) - and just how much Life and the World can transform when we "attack the wrong and not the wrongdoer!"