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It’s '94 backstage in a men’s bathroom as four female musicians prep for a gig on the eve of their big break. A nostalgic, yet timely examination of the grunge era, indefinable feminism, the stakes we create in pursuit of our dreams, and the tenuous relationships upon which all bands are built.

2010 Hollywood Fringe Best in Physical Theater Award Winning troupe Four Clowns is back with their adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy of love & vengeance. “Daring & energetic, weird & wonderful.”–Huffington Post “his cast is gifted, GO!”–LA Weekly “skilled and true.”–Backstage www.fourclowns.org

Hilarious FEMALE CLOWN DUO, Duckbits, are here with their premiere! Duckbits’ business is to make you laugh. Wear a diaper. Duckbits are Laurel and Hardy meet Salvador Dalí. Duckbits (Homo duckbitus) have an oddly-developed brain, capable of high levels of nonsense & inappropriate folly.

Join Jennifer on American and Palestinian soil on auditions, bad dates and across military checkpoints as she navigates the thorny terrain around Palestinian identity. Exploring how she becomes Palestinian-ized, politicized and eventually radicalized in a fresh, often funny, searingly honest way.

LOLlywood Kidz Comedy Show features Hollywood's funniest teens performing improv, sketch comedy and stand-up. These kids will have you LOL'ing all the way to the Justin Bieber concert! Directed by Ray Chao. LOLlywood is a Know Laughing Matter Production (www.knowlaughingmatter.org)

Love Child is a perfect blend of horror & comedy, cute & disgusting, originality & homage. If you like babies, laughter, and dry heaving this is the flick for you. Starring Hanie Lynch, Bo Roberts and Ward Roberts, who also did the writing, directing & editing stuff.

A Horse is improvised Shakespeare with a modern twist! An outrageous, fast paced show that incorporates the Bard's language in modern day situations. "The play is the thing" and the players are Jimmy Mac, Amanda Barnes, Rollin Perry and Julian Clark. A Horse is coached by the divine Jaime Moyer.

A mostly funny exploration on being kind of a mess.

FIVE UNEASY PIECES is an outrageous collection of unsettling character sketches. It’s a richly comic look at several exotic personalities as they face crucial moments in their lives, each with a hilarious and disturbing story. Leave your expectations at home. Performed with live jazz accompaniment.

The hilarious and over-the-top story of a 20 year high school reunion. This is a staged reading (with live music) of an original screenplay.

Is Jewish eroticism an oxymoron? You decide. Howard Lieberman, the star of 2010's Hollywood Fringe hit "55 Minutes of Sex, Drugs and Audience Particpation" (...a storytelling tour de force..."-Paul Birchall, LA Weekly) is back with an all new, totally irreverent improv show.

It’s Manhattan 1825 and the Hog Catcher is making his rounds. The Common Council has ordered him to rid the streets of the free-roaming swinish multitude. Armed with sticks, rocks, and pails of scalding water, a group of fiery young slaughterhouse girls fight for their rights- and their hogs!