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Bob's Holiday Office Party originated as an improv sketch thirteen years ago and has since developed into a seasonal tradition with a loyal cult following. In a small-town Iowa office, insurance agent Bob Finhead's whacked out friends and clients stop by for the annual holiday bash. But Bob has dreams of a bigger life and wants to escape his small town. Once the party -- and the bickering and fighting -- starts, will Bob finally realize his dream? Learn more...

Created during the .dot com era of San Francisco, Tilted Frame is back again to examine the world of technology and entertainment. The show brings together the best of Los Angeles comedic improv including veteran Patrick Bristow (Groundlings, Ellen, Puppet Up) to co-direct and features a rotating cast of established performers who come from diverse improv backgrounds. Learn more...

Theatre Asylum hosts C.A.F.E.'s Improv Revolution, a hilarious, unscripted evening of comedy. Every week will feature a new and revolutionary improv ensemble, followed by the L.A. favorite Asylum Improv Jam. The revolution will not be memorized. Check the listing for more details. Learn more...

Writer Gryphon Tott is taking the subway one moment -- and the next he's dead, transported to a literary lounge of the afterlife. He finds himself in the presence of several famous gay writers, including Quentin Crisp, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde and Truman Capote. As best as he can recall, however, Gryphon was straight. So what's he doing here? Learn more...

Impro Theatre presents Tennessee Williams UnScripted. Every show, the veteran improv group will create a fully improvised comic play in the style of Williams' famous dramas, featuring all the fading Southern aristocrats, mysterious drifters, and decadence associated with the great playwrights' works. Learn more...

PianoFight Productions presents ShortLived. A long-running hit in the Bay Area, this fast-paced show pits an outrageous array of short plays against each other, with the winner determined by audience vote. The champ will earn a spot in the finals in San Francisco, competing for the right to produce a full-length play for the company. Learn more...

After a night of heavy drinking, Chastity and Joshua decide to get married (to give Chastity health coverage and Joshua American citizenship), but there are many forks in the road on the way to the altar and it's up to the audience to decide which paths are taken. Full of twists, turns, and multiple endings, this fully-scripted, full-length play's plot is in the audience's hands. Learn more...

Jane Austen only wrote six novels, but they are some of the most beloved tales of love and misunderstanding, wit and wisdom, and passion and betrayal ever written. Now Impro Theatre will deliver a new Jane Austen story every night. Passionate, willful women flirt and verbally joust with handsome, brooding young noblemen. Hearts are broken, secrets are revealed and true love wins out in the end. Or does it? Learn more...

The Theatre Asylum presents the Asylum Improv Jam. See performers from LA's top improv venues, plus students of all levels, as they present a free-wheeling long-form improv show. Learn more...

The Comedy Noir series of mock celebrity roasts continues with Time Magazine's 1938 Man of the year, Adolph Hitler. Joining The Chancellor on the dais will be such villainous historical icons as Caligula, The Marquis De Sade, Idi Amin, Satan and George Bush. Hosted by "Jeff Foxworthy" and with special appearances by Joan Rivers, Anne Frank, Amy Winehouse and a few surprise guests. Learn more...

On the ten-year anniversary of his adulthood, Gregory James goes back to school. And on this Long Island evening in June, he and the other "nothing boys" will finally graduate. This new stage comedy was inspired by a real event. Learn more...

The Common Air links six distinct characters during an airport delay. The reason is unknown, but the buzz is insinuating a terrorist conspiracy. Rumors fly as each character speaks to the next. Coming full circle, the last character addresses the first, illuminating the perpetually changing narratives we arrive at, and depart from, in trying to make sense of life's ever-evolving present tense. Learn more...

Brionne Davis stars in Steve Morey and Paul Rebillot's Shame, a one-man play which pits sensuality and sex against religion. In a kind of ultimate Gestalt therapy session between man and God, a man confesses his lust for Jesus, and then offers a response as Jesus, coming off the cross, indicting Christianity and forgiving gays and anyone else of the soul crippling shame which permeates a world revolving on guilt. Learn more...

With dozens of dirty little ditties in his risque repertoire, Tom Orr has built a new show, iTom_shuffle, made up of his best, raunchiest and bawdiest Broadway bawdlerizations, with provocative parody lyrics set to famous Broadway shows. With biting wit and sharp social commentary on everything from gay marriage to the crystal meth epidemic, iTom_shuffle will amuse and arouse audiences at Theatre Asylum. Learn more...

The Ukulady's Ponyshow is a weekly talk-show variety extravaganza, hosted by You-Tube partner, Thessaly Lerner, The Ukulady! Each Ponyshow offers multi-media and live-show entertainment, featuring regular performers like Riegel & Blatt, Bridget McManus, Troy Conrad, Jayne Entwistle, Sodomite Radio and many more, as well as 3 open-mic slots. Learn more...

It's 24 hours 'til Christmas and all matters of hilarity are taking place in Texas' third smallest town of Tuna. Come see master comics Mindy Sterling (Frau Farbissina from Austin Powers) and Patrick Bristow (Ellen, Showgirls) as they bring new life to the twenty-four colorful citizens of your favorite small town. Anything goes - and often does - in this two-person, costume-changing extravaganza. Learn more...

Following in the footsteps of Avenue Q, Harvey Finklestein Productions' Chicago cult hit is a risque production featuring puppets. But that's where the similarities end -- as its name suggests, Harvey Finkelstein's Sock Puppet Showgirls retells the campy movie Showgirls in a decidedly low-tech manner. A huge success both in Chicago and New York, the show makes its West Coast premiere at Theatre Asylum. Learn more...

A drug-addicted stripper, a woman who hasn't had sex in twenty years, a 4-year-old. DonnaAnn Ward's Body Language pushes the envelope of experiencing life's ride through the physical. Funny, disturbing, erotic and poignant, Ward's piece runs at the audience in a sensory montage like life itself: on its own terms. Learn more...

The Nation of Improv is back in Hollywood, appearing at the Theatre Asylum. The show is BYoB and is filled with Hollyhood hilarity. Come and join the guys as they bring their fast, funny and urbane wit back to town. Learn more...

Danny is an explosive, deeply affecting study of alienation and the redemptive power of love. Danny and Roberta collide--hostile and desperate--in a dive in the Bronx. Danny's emotional disarray may have led him to murder. Roberta's secret past haunts her and robs her of joy. In a conversation over a beer, and through a night together, their funny, frightening and ultimately fascinating relationship takes root. Learn more...

A parody of patriotic 1940s thrillers, The Lady in Question tells the suspenseful tale of Gertrude Garnet, the most glamorous concert pianist on the international stage. On a tour of Nazi Germany in Bavaria, her colossal self-absorption is challenged when a handsome American professor asks for her help in rescuing his mother from a Nazi prison. Learn more...

Amalgam Theatre Company presents Lanford Wilson's searing, turbulent drama, Burn This, at The Asylum Theatre. The play, updated by the author for a successful 2002 run in New York City, centers on the aftershocks of a dancer's tragic death, and the emotional turmoil it inflicts on his friends and family. Learn more...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, but do you recall Rudolph the cross-dressing reindeer, the gay circuit boy elves, the Hitler Santa Claus, the alcoholic Mrs. Claus and the Abominable Drag Beast? No? Well, this is not the "claymation" holiday musical you see every year on television. So "don we now our gay apparel" and head for the Elephant Theatre to enjoy the latest outrageous treat from TheSpyAnts Theatre Company. Learn more...

In it ain't no fairy tale, Lusia Strus interweaves the relationship of her Ukrainian immigrant parents with her own marriage. It is an examination of Old World and New World relationships, the rites of courtship, the strange components of attraction, repulsion and acceptance and the whole gamut of expectations that are so often undermined by real life. Things just get in the way...like cancer and addiction and honesty. Learn more...

Tucked away in a quaint Hollywood Italian bistro one Friday night, a wide range of characters enjoy an evening out. From a young woman on a blind date, to a star-obsessed tourist, to a hopeful small-town actress to a bunch of Valley girls on a Cosmo binge, this play investigates how significantly we all affect one another. Learn more...

In her hilarious one-woman show, Elza Zagreda paints a picture of what it was like to grow up in a strict Albanian household where women's contributions were frowned upon. While coming of age, Elza grappled with many obstacles, including body image issues, acne, bad 80s music, mullets and having to hide shot guns in her underwear for special occasions. Learn more...

7 Redneck Cheerleaders is a comedy about a first-time playwright and seven L.A. actors, telling the story of a boy who is willing to be a cheerleader for love - 8x10's, pom-poms and rifles. Learn more...

7 Redneck Cheerleaders is a comedy about a first-time playwright and seven L.A. actors, telling the story of a boy who is willing to be a cheerleader for love - 8x10's, pom-poms and rifles. Learn more...

Back by popular demand for one night only! St. Alice of Chattahoochee is the story of Alice, who begins her journey as a diabolically ambitious nine year old determined to lip-synch her way out of her southern suburban wasteland and straight to the top. Unfortunately, she is constantly thwarted by community theater directors, child beauty pageant queens, religious fanatics, uppity New Yorkers and a host of other small minded inferiors until an event back home inspires her to heal herself by healing others. Learn more...

What happens when jealousy, family competition and love all get thrown into a boiling pot, when obligations and emotions are pushed to the edge? In Shem Bitterman's harrowing tale, Sensitive Skin, what starts as a challenge between brothers ends in a game of betrayal that threatens to destroy everyone involved. Learn more...

Eden, lauded by the Irish Times and winner of the Rooney Prize, makes its L.A. debut at the Elephant Asylum Theatre in Hollywood. Written by Eugene O'Brien, currently Ireland's hottest playwright, the play takes a hilarious and heartbreaking look at forbidden love. Learn more...

Writer and performer David Jahn's one-man show explores the chaos that irrational fear can create in our lives, with hilarious, poignant and inspiring results. This show debuted at the Groundlings Theatre in 2004 and played to sold-out houses. Learn more...

The SpyAnts & the Elephant Theater Company join forces to bring the smash hit Hellcab back for the Christmas Season. With 30 actors acting in rep this a ride not to be missed! Learn more...

Fancy is created and performed by Vladimir Levitansky, internationally renowned physical comedian, mime, clown, and buffoon. Vladimir portrays an incompetent janitor, whose "flight of fancy" leads him away from any actual cleaning, and on a journey of the imagination. Learn more...

TV writer/director Rick Edelstein, known for his work on Sanford and Son, Maude, and The Bob Newhart Show, directs this production of The Hollywood Handshake, a serio-comedic look at the real drama the film industry produces. Can success and morality co-exist in Hollywood? A producer, his superior and a temp try everything they can to achieve their dreams. Learn more...

Pipeman On The Moon, an original play in two acts, written by playwright and cancer survivor Keith Hamilton, is a powerful story about a young man's bout to overcome Hodgkin's Disease. Learn more...

The ultimate show for people who love Broadway musicals! Billy Youngblood seeks stardom in New York City, performing favorite songs from Broadway hits along the way. The Los Angeles Times calls it an "engaging portrait" and "an original cast album lover's fantasy made flesh." Learn more...