Wedding Party (Or, why you should not invite former friends to your wedding)
by Adriana Martínez Barrón

Ximena is getting married to the perfect man in her dream wedding in a freaking castle in the South of France. Everything is exactly what she’s dreamed of since she was a little girl and yet… not everything is perfect because four key people in Ximena’s life are missing: Sandy, her best friend from high school, Citlali, her former roommate, Mariana and Gabriela, her girl squad from her 20’s. Ximena wishes they could all be part of her bridal party so she embarks on a journey to try to rekindle these relationships and heal the wounds that drove them apart.

The charming and bittersweet romantic dramedy, at times both hilarious and heartbreaking, featuring quippy dialogue and unexpectedly funny twists dives deep into platonic love, romantic love and the greatest love of all, self-love, and explores the impact of female friendship break ups, which, as any woman can attest, are more painful and harder to get over than romantic breakups.

Off-Broadway’s Eco Village’s Arianna Williams and Newcomer Ryan Jaske (E4 Mafia) star as Ximena and her fiancé Jason, with Daniela Azuaje (AMC’s “Mayans MC”) as “Sandy”; Jocelyn Marie (Amazon’s Jason Katims series “As We See It”) as “Citali”, Rocio Ibarra (Call of Duty: Black Ops 6) as “Mariana”; and newcomer Carlie Meyers as “Gabriela”.

You can catch the limited performances for the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Let Live Theater @ The Actors Company (916 N Formosa Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046).

Showtimes:

• Thursday June 04, 2026 at 9:00 PM
• Sunday June 07, 2026 at 3:30 PM
• Thursday June 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
• Saturday June 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
• Sunday June 14, 2026 5:30 PM
• Tuesday June 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
• Saturday June 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
• Monday June 22, 2026 at 5:30 PM
• Friday June 26, 2026 at 10:00 PM.

Website – https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14105?tab=details

Tickets –  https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14105?tab=tickets

Social media –  @dramaqueen_films

#WeddingPartyPlay

MaMa Does Dada: Absurdist Theatre

by Madeline Magnifico (MaMa)

RAGE, RAGE – anti-bourgeois revolution – poetry – dance – BRUTALIST soundscapes – marionette theater – LOVE and HATE combine to protest and promote the entropy of the universe. Join absurdist historian Madeline Magnifico, known as MaMa (portrayed by Jerilyn Paige), for art history in the making.

Witness an evening of experimental, improvisational, absurdist theater in the style of the Zurich Dada movement of the 1920’s. This near-forgotten and long-neglected art form is the perfect pairing with today’s disaffection, pent-up rage, protest energy, and existential angst. MaMa revives the chaos and beauty of Dada to enrage and soothe your soul.

DUE TO THE AVANT–GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL NATURE OF THE THEPERFORMANCE, audience members will be required to complete and submit a participation WAIVER to be admitted to the theater.

Previews:

Friday June 5th, 10:00pm

Sunday June 7th, 2:00pm

Performances:

Saturday June 13th, 10:30am

Sunday June 14th, 6:00pm

Monday June 15th, 7:00pm

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14530

For fans of dark comedy, and if you love The Drama, Harold and Maude, Fargo, or ’Night, Mother…

…Then step into a secluded Swiss cabin where Augustine invites her closest people for what seems like an ordinary visit… until she drops a bombshell that sends everything spiraling.

Alps, Adieu! is a funny collision of love, denial, and total chaos over one wildly unexpected evening. And yes—there will be cheese.

Showtimes:

• June 5th at 9:30pm
• June 15th at 8:00pm
• June 20th at 11:00pm
• June 24th at 8:30pm
• June 27th at 3:00pm

This one woman show about Joan of Arc and mental illness is combination history lesson and autobiography. Both humorous and heartbreaking, it weaves together the stories of Joan of Arc, the writer’s journey with mental health, and the moment where both women’s lives overlap.

“The show was brave, inspiring and just the way that history should be taught.”

A swift 80 minutes with no intermission this limited performance is not to be missed. ONLY THREE PERFORMANCES!

Written and performed by award winning actor and creator, Jessica Erin Martin. You may have seen Jessica last year at Fringe as the Time Traveler in the multi-nominated production of THE TIME MACHINE.

Content Warnings: mental health, suicide, sexual assault, femicide/execution

Upcoming Original Play Women Who Eat Begins Fundraising Ahead of Hollywood Fringe Festival

Hollywood Fringe Alumna Devin Davis-Lorton pens new original play to submit to this years Hollywood Fringe Festival

Women Who Eat is an original play by Award-Winning Actor, Writer and Hollywood Fringe Alumna Devin Davis-Lorton. Devin received her BFA in Acting and Performance with a Minor in Writing from Emerson College. Since then, she has been an integral member in both The Road Theatre Company and City Garage Theater, and now expands her horizons with the founding of Point Blank Theater Company.

“It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and these are some hungry bitches…”

In this DARK COMEDY, hysterical young women navigate modern womanhood, define sisterhood and the group dynamics of girls adapting to the pressure cooker of survival in a new and vicious world..

“The first sin was a woman who ate.” All hell breaks loose on an island oasis after power is lost during a generational storm. Hilarity ensues as six witty women fight to stay alive in a culture trying to gobble them whole.

When the electricity is cut to an off-the-grid eating disorder recovery center, the inhabitants are forced to grapple with whether or not they want to survive, and whether or not they will accept the women they become. As they fight for power and control, their only living choice is to eat. There is no other option.

Tickets for Women Who Eat go on sale on May 1st with the first preview gracing the stage on June 6th.

Ticket Info:

Buy Tickets: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14308?tab=tickets

Dates: Saturday, June 6th at 6PM; Wednesday, June 17th at 5PM; Saturday, June 20th at 2:30PM; Tuesday, June 23rd at 9:30PM, Friday, June 26th at 7:30 PM

Runtime: 90min Ages 18

Donate to Women Who Eat Fundraising Campaign:

For audience perks and exclusive offers:

Seed and spark Link (available May 1st): https://seedandspark.com/fund/women-who-eat#story

Just want to support?

Venmo: @deviniscool

Contact Info:

contact@dontlook.studio

Follow Women Who Eat on Social Media:

Instagram – @pointblanktheater

“WHAT SURVIVES” by Rachael Meyers

When 10-year-old Isabella is taken by ICE from her elementary school, the community struggles to reconcile today’s world with a world they once knew. Told in a series of vignettes, WHAT SURVIVES speaks to what it means to be a human in 2026.

Writer/Director/Producer: Rachael Meyers

Producer: Heather Shields

Stage Manager: Angelica Estevez

Costume Designer: Mylette Nora

Prop Master: Kristen Maloney

More to come!

Showtimes

• June 6, 2026 @ 9pm
• June 11, 2026 @ 8pm
• June 14, 2026 @ 12:30pm
• June 18, 2026 @ 11pm
• June 26, 2026 @ 10pm

Website: https://tinyurl.com/whatsurvives

Social media links and/or hashtags:

IG accounts: @rachael.meyers @slightlyrambunctiousfemale @whatsurvivestheplay

Hashtags: #whatsurvives #whatsurvivesplay #worldpremiere

In the Beginning tells Eve’s – the first woman’s – untold Genesis story and her search for purpose in an already perfect world. Through cosmic family comedy, hand puppets, and heartfelt inquiry, the play explores the world’s first heroes under God’s infinite power and the human condition.

Eve is only mentioned twice by name in Genesis. Her story was never told. 

MATURE CONTENT AND TRIGGER WARNING  This play explores adult themes, nudity, language, sexual content, substance use and abuse, themes of suicide and self-harm, and mild violence.

STARRING:
Laurel Preston as EVE
Giorgio Rossini as ADAM
Landon Reid as GOD

In the beginning, God creates the perfect nursery for His children: the Garden. When He forms Eve, His masterpiece is finally complete, and all He has made is good.

As His children grow and learn from Him, Eve questions her Father, searching for a purpose beyond obedience. God tests Adam and Eve to make good choices, but promises they are perfect. Eve doesn’t understand how a bad choice can be part of God’s perfect plans, and deliberately disobeys one of her Father’s rules. God’s consequence sends Adam and Eve to live out in the Desert, to survive on their own with nothing but what their Father had taught them.

God’s perfect world now feels bad, and Father is nowhere to be seen or heard. Adam and Eve discover life’s firsts in marriage, sex, parenthood, grief, and death, and learn to lean on one another to survive.

How far would you go to conceive?  For Alice, it was doctor visits, hormone shots, and multiple trips to Colorado.  She shares her own trials through infertility, facing disappointment after disappointment, until she gets her miracle baby.  But can miracles really come true? 

Inconceivable is a story of infertility, pregnancy, and the life altering decision she is forced to make.   At times comedic and at other times heart wrenching, this story is timely, putting a spotlight on the importance of reproductive choice in a post-Roe era.  This show touches not only on the roller coaster emotions of infertility, but also the necessity of access to maternal health care. 

Inconceivable was the winner of the Best Newcomer Award in Solofest 2025.

Content warning: This performance touches on topics of pregnancy loss and abortion. 

From Lemabean Productions, Bean vs. The Robots is a brand new sci-fi solo show musical, including 9 new songs written and performed by Midge Lema.

Bean is trapped inside her spaceship. And now you’re trapped with her. Unfortunately for you, Bean lost her memories and must play sad little songs on her keyboard in order to get them back. While she sings, you start to lose all sense of time. But don’t worry. In space, there’s always time. Or is there? As Bean unravels, she remembers why she, and perhaps you, needed to go to space in the first place. A sci-fi exploration of grief through the funny, wistful, and weird eyes of a lost space traveller.

Bean vs. The Robots is Lema’s third solo show, but her very first musical. Her first solo show, Bean, was awarded Best of Hollywood Fringe and called one of the “top ten shows not to miss” at Fringe World Festival by The West Australian.

Matt & Lily Get Together by Lily Kerrigan & Matthew Marcus

Bebé Bebé

Written & Performed by Veronica Osorio 
A Solo Clown Show

A postpartum delirium time warp clown show, not for new parents but for all former babies. If you were once a baby, this show is for you.

Fresh from the most life-altering experience a person can go through… no, not having your country seized by the U.S.A and mined for oil… but having a baby and then getting OCD-Veronica Osorio is staging a new hour.

Ok. Realistically? She’s been mostly in a 4am delirium. One where the now is a forever moment. Timelines collapse, horses talk, mirrors spook, auditions endlessly continue, the village is highly questionable, and her body’s time and space portal remains open which makes it very easy to go back and forth in time. So we do. Reviewing life old questions:

WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU?
What are you doing here? in my livingroom!

WILL WE GET THE ANSWERS?

WARNING: There’s a strong chance you’ll see a breastfeeding nipple. Does that count as nudity? Think about it.

A hopeful love story set in the 1970s: after a racial slur is burned into her lawn targeting her teenage daughter, a Japanese American mother confronts memories of Japanese incarceration and finds strength in hope and community. A portion of ticket sales supports orgs fighting for immigrant justice.

Preview
Sunday June 7 2026, 4:40 PM | 70 mins

Saturday June 13 2026, 11:10 AM | 70 mins – 10 min talk back to follow

Saturday June 20 2026, 8:40 PM | 70 mins
Saturday June 27 2026, 3:10 PM | 70 min
Sunday June 28 2026, 2:40 PM | 70 mins

Info hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13651

“I Totally Would’ve Had a Threesome With You” by Ellen Relac is a 60-minute dramatic comedy about the shifting relationship dynamics between summer camp counselors Lydia, Martine, Jamie and Greg. The production is directed by Ava Alexiades and stars Relac, Lauren McMillan, Finn Mackimmie and Koda Beschen. Amy Cosby is producing alongside Relac. Natalie Nelson is intimacy coordinating, Magnolia Fisk is stage managing, and the show was cast by Jacob Cherry.

Showtimes: June 8th (8PM), June 12th (9:30 PM), June 13th (9:30 PM), June 14th (4:30 PM), June 16th (5 PM)

show webpage • instagram

#ITWHATWY #threesomeatfringe

Content warning – discussion of sexual assault

STRANGE BEINGS by Nicole Knudsen

It was supposed to be an easy job with a good paycheck. Deep-space courier contracts are always lucrative. And it was easy…

…until an unidentified alien vessel intercepts The Valkyrie on the return leg of its journey. And as luck would have it, the courier ship’s translator doesn’t seem to be functioning.

Good thing The Valkyrie’s two pilots, Mina Hansen and Caleb Cooper, work so well together. Good thing there’s no bad blood between them…

…Right?

It’s complicated.

Contending with both their dire circumstances and tempestuous personal history, Mina and Caleb must do everything they can to make it home safely. And in unearthing their past, they just might find hope for the future.

Past Lives meets Star Trek, Strange Beings examines the fragile balance between pain, grace, and choosing to forgive. With aliens!

CONTENT WARNINGS INCLUDE: Isolation; dizziness & nausea; temporary physical incapacitation; strong language; brief allusion to sexual assault; flashing lights; loud, sudden sounds.

Produced by Nicole Knudsen, James Ferrero, Megan Ruble & Robby Angell

Starring: Victoria Gluchoski & Joshua Verges

PERFORMANCES:

• Monday, 6/8 @ 9:30 PM
• Saturday, 6/13 @ 3:30 PM
• Tuesday, 6/16 @ 6:30 PM
• Saturday, 6/20 @ 2:00 PM
• Sunday, 6/21 @ 12:30 PM
• Wednesday, 6/24 @ 9:30 PM
• Saturday, 6/27 @ 11:00 AM

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13389

Instagram: @dayforknightproductions

Mr. Ow is a silly yet glamorous worm who does magic, gambles with your biggest hopes and dreams, and you’ll love when he wins it all.

From the heart of Reno’s favorite clown-magician Tozy, comes her newest show, blending traditional magic and modern clown… with a dash of music and puppetry. You’ll leave delighted, deepened, and maybe a little bit dumber. There is audience interaction, absurdity, and vulnerability.

Mr. Ow was born from Tozy’s previous solo show, “The Curious Revelations and Astounding Insights of the Great Shamé” which explored the absurd illusions of shame and the journey of a mistake. She performed the show in Reno as well as the Atlanta and Omaha Fringe Festivals. Reno Arts News said it was “Terrific… filled with self-discovery and revelations.”

“The Mary and Margo Art Experience” by Katie Oliver and Kristin Hansen.

Meet Mary & Margo: two professional performance artists who take their craft VERY seriously—perhaps a bit too seriously. They’ve curated the ultimate showcase for a big-time Hollywood producer, Mr. Goodman, featuring hilariously awkward audience participation and their most “profound” work. Theres just one problem—Mr. Goodman is nowhere to be found.

Watch as the wait for Hollywood fame turns into a celebration of the audience right in front of them.

Directed by Katie Oliver and Kristin Hansen. Produced by Matt Morillo for KADM Productions.

Preview Monday, June 8, 2026 at 7pm. Regular performances Friday, June 19 at 11pm; Thursday, June 25 at 5pm; Saturday, June 27 at  9:30pm; Sunday, June 28 at 4:30pm

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14086

“Doom Girls” by Jenni Chiaramonte.

Three extraterrestrial secret agents—who are also bandmates—are called back into action to track down a dangerous fugitive hiding on the hellish planet known as Earth. Even worse, he’s disguised as… a podcast bro! It’s up to these secret agent/rockstar beings to save the universe…again!

The cast includes Jenni Chiaramonte, Cynthia Dane, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Nina Rancel and Alex Sarno. Matt Morillo directs.  Presented by KADM Productions.

Previews Monday, June 8, 2026 at 8 p.m.

Regular performances on Thursday, June 11 at 5 p.m.; Sunday, June 14 at 6 p.m.; Sunday, June 21 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, June 27 at 10:30 p.m.

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14087

SPLIT: Between Two Nervous Systems is a deeply moving solo dance-theatre experience about migration, identity, womanhood, and the hidden cost of always being “strong.” Through storytelling, movement, humor, and ritual, Dr. Dimple Kaur invites you into a world many live in but only few can name.If you’ve ever reinvented yourself, carried invisible pain, crossed cultures, or longed to feel fully alive again, this show will stay with you.

This is a performance for anyone who has ever felt divided between who they were and who they had to become. Between belonging somewhere and belonging to themselves. Between surviving and actually being alive. You do not need to be an immigrant to recognize that split. You only need to have ever performed a version of yourself that wasn’t quite true.

Integrating the ancient ritual language of Bharatanatyam and the intimacy of contemporary solo theatre, Split is a cultural and psychological excavation, with a quietly radical act of self-reclamation.

It is also, unexpectedly, funny in places. And devastating in others. Sometimes within the same breath.

Come for the story. Leave feeling resilient.

Running time: 60 minutes. No intermission.

Content note: This performance includes themes of racial microaggressions, mental health

In this melodramatic and heartwarming one-act play that Meg wrote for herself to star in, she irreverently pays homage to the American TV and movie tropes that shaped her world view.

By accessing her inner Meryl Streep/Kristen Wiig and giving the performance of a lifetime, she embodies an ingénue (coincidentally also named “Meg”) from a small town and the audience is taken on an emotional and moving odyssey as she blossoms into a resilient, fierce and independent woman.

Will there be big, explosive emotions? Absolutely. Will she take things too far? You betcha!

Slumber Party written and directed by Louisa Brott

Best friends Nina, Cleo, and Sophie have been looking forward to this Slumber Party for months. Only problem? A culty incident related to their favorite boy band, Cute and Confused, left them reeling last week and they’ve been avoiding each other ever since. 

Despite angsty pleas to their parents, the Slumber Party, centered around the 12-hour Cute and Confused Radio-A-Thon, will go on.

With their stomachs in knots, and an unspoken dread filling Nina’s bedroom, the trio must face each other, each filled with their own questions.

The main question: 

How far will you go to get your favorite boy band member to fall in love with you?

The other question?

Well that remains a secret between two members of this trio. For now.

Cast and Crew:

Featuring Tori Eriavez as Nina, Tessa Taylor as Sophie, and Mary Clare Bone as Cleo

Original music by The Apartment Boys

Content Warnings: fake knife, fake (fabric) blood, stuffed animal sacrifice (no live animals), missguided witchcraft, cultish elements, queer/coming out themes

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Venue Address:

Broadwater Second Stage

6320 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90038

Showtimes:

Tuesday June 9 2026, 5:00 PM

Sunday June 14 2026, 6:30 PM

Monday June 22 2026, 9:30 PM

Wednesday June 24 2026, 5:00 PM

Saturday June 27 2026, 11:00 AM

A disillusioned young woman becomes obsessed with an aloof classmate. She begins meticulously studying his life, dismantling her own, and remaking herself in his image in hopes of becoming worthy of his attention. Imitation becomes a twisted form of intimacy. What begins as an innocent fantasy of self-improvement spirals into an uncontrollable fixation, threatening to leave them both exposed.

Follower premiered at United Solo Theatre Festival and was further developed for an award-winning run at the NYC Fringe Festival, where its final two performances sold out.

“Follower is an experience unlike any other–fascinating, strange, and at times jaw-dropping…worth seeing for yourself. Inventive and bizarre…transgressive.” -Theatre Beyond Broadway

Audience members have hailed it as “a fabulously psychotic and vulnerable show” and “insane and beautiful.”

Content warning: stalking

Katheryn McGaffigan is a NYC-based playwright, Equity actor, and musician. She made her Off-Broadway debut with Follower, a solo show she wrote and performed, at Theatre Row as part of the United Solo Theatre Festival. Follower was further developed for an award-winning run at the NYC Fringe Festival, where its final two performances sold out. In film, Katheryn co-wrote and co-starred in As the Dust Settles, a participatory documentary about Burning Man. As a musician, she has performed internationally with the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, and her forthcoming EP features two members of the legendary Swans. Katheryn studied playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College and trained in solo performance at The Barrow Group, Go-Solo, and Magnet Theater. Her acting training includes Harvard University, The New Actors Workshop, and LAByrinth Theater Company, among others. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Playwrights’ Center, and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.

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Perimenoparty: the welcome party to a stage of live you can’t scape.

Perimenoparty is a hybrid solo performance developed in New York through a Fulbright Performing Arts Fellowship awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Blending clown, physical theatre, improvisation, and stand-up, the piece transforms perimenopause—a culturally silenced transition—into an unexpected space of celebration.

Structured through three clown states (puberty, fertility, and perimenopause), the show moves across different stages of femininity with humor, discomfort, and emotional precision.

In The Waiting Room of Menopause, the performer embodies a series of characters representing the external noise imposed on women over 40: anti-aging culture, fitness pressure, wellness trends, and medicalization.

The piece shifts when she encounters her eight-year-old self—represented by a puppet—opening a space for radical self-acceptance and a redefinition of what it means to age.

Audience participation is essential. Spectators are invited onstage, blurring the line between witness and participant and turning the performance into a shared, unpredictable experience.

Perimenoparty is a 45-minute solo show currently in development at The Barrow Group in New York, where material is being tested in front of live audiences. The project is moving toward its full premiere, with plans for international touring.

The Bomb by Dana Schwartz

• When the shine on Alex Rey’s career starts to tarnish, he decides to return to his stand-up roots. But he can’t tell if the laughs he’s getting are real – or just polite. Enter Naomi Rose, a new comic with a quick wit and great impression of Alex. He hires her to test out his material since she isn’t afraid to bomb and he can’t afford to. As Alex wrestles with his fear of failure and Naomi fights to step out of his shadow and find her authentic voice, the two form an unlikely partnership— built on jokes, ego, and the uncomfortable truth behind the laughter.

Starring Dana Schwartz & Justin Huen

• 6/18 @ 6:30pm
• 6/20 @ 11pm
• 6/23 @ 5pm
• 6/26 @ 9:30pm
• 6/28 @ 4:30pm

More Info Visit hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14058

@danaschwartz24

“Small But Aggressive” by Denise Moses.

SMALL BUT AGGRESSIVE, written and performed by Denise Moses, is a multi-character, “one-widow” dark comedy, exploring grief and the loss of a spouse.

In the show, when Denise’s ballet dancer husband, Craig is diagnosed with a “small but aggressive” brain tumor, an unwelcome guest (chain- smoking “Grief”) takes up residence and refuses to leave. As “Denise” and “Grief” butt heads, the diminutive Denise finds she too can be “small but aggressive”.

The show finds hilarity even in grief amid very touching and real emotion.  What’s so funny about grief?  Turns out – a lot!  It’s a show for anyone who has experienced loss … and that’s just about everyone.

Directed by Ross Clark.

Friday, June 19, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20 at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27 at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m.

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14402

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