From the Creator/Performer of “That Dorothy Parker” about life, identity, theatre, family, and forgiveness. Carol’s performed “The Diary of Anne Frank” 3 times. During college she played Anne. In her 20s, Anne’s sister. And years later, Anne’s mother. A true story about the Commercialization-of-the-Holocaust. Surprisingly funny. Jews are commanded to tell their stories. What happens when telling meets commerce? Director: Janice L. Goldberg. Sound Designer: Craig Lenti. Recommended for: all audiences, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, ethnic community (Jewish). Links: artist, video

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An uplifting essay on loneliness. Wait. Loneliness can be uplifting? Yes! Claire Fleury does what no one dares to do: expose her loneliness on a stage, and actually make that into a funny and bold, extremely recognizable and often heart wrenching, well researched theatrical essay. “Strong, Striking” (Edinburgh Fringe Review). Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community. Links: artist, video, related

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Sandi Sabattini, obedient executive secretary and divorced menopausal mom, gets entangled in an office crisis with her philandering boss. Sandi is forced to confront her guilty conscience and choose which path to follow. Director: Michael Beckett. Recommended for: adults, theatre community. Link: related

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An hilariously touching tale of lovable Zoe. A hopelessly hopeful actress, stopping at nothing to get a part. Will she skip the monologue and create her own “triplelogue?” Absolutely. Rewrite scenes so characters can fulfill their dreams? Hell YES!! Be careful, she may rope you into auditions too!! A side-splitting reminder that “A Big Shot” is only “A Little Shot” who just keeps shooting. Recommended for: all audiences, children, adults, elderly, theatre community, ethnic community (Irish), actors, variety artists in clown community. Link: video

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One woman’s musical journey through the Baby Boomer years, and her search for the American Dream. Director: Michael Bush. Music Director, Arranger & Accompanist: Daniel A. Weiss. Photo by R. SKY Palkowitz. Recommended for: all audiences. Link: artist

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Love, sex, murder, magic, myth, war, waves, and a devil out of his depths. An exhilarating romp through Goethe’s theatrical masterpiece about heaven, hell and a battle for the soul of a man searching for truth, satisfaction… and a Goddess. Astonishingly pertinent to our time and our struggles to be truly human, this bargain with the devil has surprising twists. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (German, Austrian). Links: artist, video

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Singer Jaye Maynard pays homage to (but doesn’t try to imitate) the wised-up jazz-babydoll stylings of the late Blossom Dearie, with Jon Delfin accompanying her on Dearie’s own piano. Jaye Maynard interprets “The First Blossom Dearie Songbook,” all songs written for or by Dearie, including Bob Dorough, Johnny Mercer, and Dave Frishberg. Music Director: Jon Delfin. Bass: William Pace. Recommended for: all audiences, cabaret community. Links: artist, show

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“Blue, Black and White” is an enchanting humanist story about Sir Seretse Khama. He married a white British woman in 1949 and their interracial marriage saw them being banned from many countries including Seretse’s own native Botswana. This piece is an exploration of love and courage and how they were the cornerstone to Africa’s most enduring democracy, the Republic of Botswana. (Best Performer, 2008 Dialogue ONE Theatre Festival). Poster by: Maya Lama. Recommended for: all audiences, children, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community (lovers of classical theatre), ethnic community (African, British). Links: artist, show, related, related2, related3

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“Broke Wide Open” is a musical and poetic avalanche of words dramatically cascading into the compelling journey of one man’s search for his HOME. Best described as a verbal opera, Rock WILK is a one person symphony, conducting a dynamic movement of language weaved into a beautiful theatrical experience. Director: Stephen Bishop Seely. Composer: Rock Wilk. Production Sponsor: Jack Sharkey. Recommended for: all audiences. Link: artist

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Ingez Rameau’s “BURN” is a raw, riveting, hypnotic portrait of a mother and daughter’s battle for sanity and survival in Post-WWII Displaced Persons Camps. Desperate circumstances yield desperate choices – truth is the first casualty, and innocence fair trade. “BURN” is a triumph — poised in its crystal clarity and power, relentless in its quest for truth, freedom, dignity, and transcendence. Director: Michael Phillip Edwards. Composers: Armando Compean & James Varley. Producer: Lynne Conner. Recommended for: mature audiences. Links: artist, related

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You might know Willa Cather as the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “My Antonia” and “Death Comes for the Archbishop.” What you might not know is that she was a cross-dressing lesbian in Nebraska in the 1890′s and that she had a worshipful secretary/life partner who called herself, “Willa Cather’s slave.” Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community. Links: artist, show, video

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Jim Loucks’ live-wire solo performance takes you back to the Deep South with preachers shoutin’ from the mountaintops, mamas pickin’ switches, and Hellfire just a heartbeat away. This nationally-touring show is filled with witty and insightful storytelling, quirky characters and down-home Gospel music. “Critic’s Pick” – Cincinnati Citybeat. Director: Carol Rusoff. Producer: Deb Loucks. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community. Links: artist, related, related2, related3

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Austin Pendleton directed this poignant comedy that gives us the freedom to laugh at our obsessions, compulsions and fears. An Eviction Notice, A Hoarder, Her Clutter, And What Lies Beneath It All. (Best Directing, 2010 United Solo Theatre Festival). Director: Austin Pendleton. Recommended for: adults. Link: artist

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“Covergirl – How Lynndie England Became the Personification of Evil America” is an uncompromising though sensitive play about the young American soldier who became a dubious celebrity throughout the world for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It moves constantly between documentary and fiction, inner monologue and cabaret, and, above all, it seeks to express the speechlessness engendered by the pictures of Abu Ghraib and the subsequent inquiries. Playwright & Director: Barbara Herold. Recommended for: all audiences, adults, theatre community, German speaking audience. Links: artist, show, video, related

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A blind man wakes up lost and confused and fears he has beaten a man to death. Searching for answers, he relives his magical childhood, his journey from sighted to blind, his relationship with the woman he loves and his fascination with General Curtis LeMay. Having lost sight of everything, will he come to grips with the violence he committed. Director: Chuck Hudson. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, visually impaired community. Link: related

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Nora Sedler, “prima donna assoluta” of the world’s opera houses, is deported, in the autumn of 1941, to the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, now in Poland. She arrives on a transport together with a large group of Jewish artists from Western Europe. She escapes the Holocaust. At what price? We find the answer to that question in her reply… Director: Stanislaw Miedziewski. Playwright: Magdalena Gauer. Recommended for: all audiences, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, ethnic community (Polish). Link: show

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“What’s a nice girl like you NOT drinking in a place like this?” Handron discards clichėd portrayals of recovery in her portrayal of Hope and numerous other female alcoholics (some sober and some not so sober) stemming from thesis research on the subject, comparing face-to-face to online meetings. Director: Laura Brienza. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, LGBT community, The Recovery community. Link: artist

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Meet a man dying to really live. A sweet, poignant, funny chronicle of foolhardiness, those things we brave that we really shouldn’t. Because in a way we all want to be somebody. A page-to-stage new show in development. Patrick’s previous show, “Man 1, Bank 0” is a smash-hit, internationally touring and sold out show. “Brilliant storyteller.” “Hilarious!” “Guy’s got star power,” Variety magazine. “Storytelling to an art form,” TimeOUT NY. Recommended for: all audiences. Link: artist

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For 6 years Tim Intravia has “survived” as a human statue/robot/mime on the streets of New York. But all that glitters is not silver! From crazy tourists and Elmo characters to the NYPD and women with strange fantasies, Tim tells all. This laugh out loud show will help you understand why it’s not easy being silver. Director: Rebecca Yarsin. Recommended for: all audiences. Links: artist, related

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“GEORGIA” maneuvers through love after rape. After a young couple survives this quiet violence, the play shows the staggered reality of what happens when a single thrust unlocks different answers to the same question. One woman. Four characters. “GEORGIA” investigates the windows of good, evil and the sometimes blurry lines in between. Director: Kevin Benoit. Stage Manager: Marcus Wright. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community. Links: artist, show, video, video2, related

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“Homo Homini” is a musical journey through human emotions, as well as spiritual and mental development. Thanks to sounds from various instruments and sampled backgrounds, it invites to a journey into places that are normally not available. It’s a creation definitely subscribed to minimalistic aesthetics. It is a result of deep analysis and a search for the suitable musical form of conveying a message. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community. Link: related

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“Hourglass (Klepsydra)” is a small stage solo project produced by physical theatre company Teatr A PART. The word “klepsydra” in Polish language contains two significances. It means “hourglass” but also “obituary notice.” The performance is almost non-verbal solo by actress Monika Wachowicz, joining the poetic of theatre of body, gestures and emotions as well as elements of dance theatre. Director: Marcin Herich. Recommended for: adults. Links: artist, show, video

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Motivational speaker and expert lesbian Butchy McDyke guides her audience through this hilarious coming out story complete with outrageous characters, personal story, and a Reba McEntire song as they learn to confidently shout, “I’m a big ‘ol dyke!” At turns funny and poignant, silly and earnest, it’s the perfect guide to gay for budding lesbians, no matter their sexual orientation! Director: Peter Deffet. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, LGBT community. Links: artist, show, video, related

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Sarah Reynolds never meant to “like” Tony. He friended her first. He sent the relationship request. From there, it gets complicated. Very complicated. Director: Daniella Caggiano. Playwright: Mila Golubov. Photo by: Gary Gardner. Recommended for: all audiences. Link: related

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“In Between” is a semi-autobiographical one man show that portrays the complexities and contradictions inherent in Palestinian-Israeli identity. On the precipice between two cultures stands Ibrahim Miari. “In Between” recalls his childhood in Acre, memories of his Jewish and Palestinian grandmothers, of war, and of the struggle to shape and understand his own multi-faceted identity, a struggle further complicated by his imminent marriage to a Jewish American woman. Director: Elena Araoz. Recommended for: all audiences, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (Jewish, Israelis, Arabs, Palestinians). Links: show, video, related, related2

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Is privacy dead in our high-tech world? With cameras everywhere, Johnny Ace is a “New Age Noir” detective (a street-smart Information Engineer) who turns the world of surveillance inside-out. He tracks a life-and-death story as he looks at the passing scene, which includes snoopy landlords, nosy neighbors and people who never stop tracking each other on the Internet. Director: William Barry. Recommended for: all audiences

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I grew up in a funny family. And then my dad shot my mom. And then himself. He was a WWII vet, an Elk. She was a passive-aggressive poet. The “greatest generation?” Nah. Love is deadly. You ever thought of killing your spouse? It could happen to you. I survived it. Mostly. And I’m a comic. Director: David Ford. Photo by David Allen. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, LGBT community, psychiatric community. Links: artist, show

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“Jimmy: The Story of James Dean” follows the actor on his last day of filming on the set of “Giant.” James is kept waiting for hours in his trailer, and turns to his deceased mother for advice. While James’ star is beginning to rise, he faces mounting problems in his personal life he cannot face on his own. Director: Matthew Cleaver. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community

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“Just don’t touch me, amigo” is a comedy about loneliness in which Pedro, after arriving in New York, undergoes the alienating process of becoming a resident alien. The piece is also interested in the conflict that originates between those natives who believe that foreigners don’t have a right to criticize, and those newcomers who have trouble understanding their new reality within its own context. Director: Antonio Vega. Recommended for: all audiences, adults, theatre community, LGBT community. Links: show, video, related

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Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was a white southern liberal writer, unafraid to criticize segregation at a time when such actions almost guaranteed social ostracism. Lulu Fogarty tells of this brave woman’s life-long struggle to be heard, daring to say “Although we have come a long way – there is still a long way to go.” Director: Thom Fogarty. Music: Blue Gene Tyranny. Visual Effects: Anja Hitzenberger. Recommended for: all audiences, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community. Link: artist

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“Little Pea snuck me into dark and intimate places where I would not have gone willingly, and where I would not have gone alone. This show is gift to the audience, to be sure.” In order to avoid growing up, Little Pea is moving to the moon, and as her good-bye party unravels, so too does her childhood. Join her as she puts the pieces back together again. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, dreamers, feminists, activists. Link: artist

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In a 1960′s American immigrant detainment center, “Look, What I Don’t Understand” forces the audience of border patrollers to decide the fate of communist defectors caught in red tape limbo. Touring: Russia, Poland, Armenia, Los Angeles and Chicago. Director: Yuriy Kordonskiy. Set Designer: Anthony Nikolchev. Lighting Designer: Anna Cecelia Martin. Sound Designer: Jack L. Johnson. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (immigrants, Eastern/Central European, USSR, Bulgarian), immigrant rights groups. Links: artist, video, related, related2

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A hysterical romp through America’s spiritual enterprise. The show exposes the blurry line between self-help and faith. Yoga gurus, healthy chocolate peddlers and Buddhists with God complexes ego-trip their way toward absurdity. Do these people really exist? Yes, they do. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, self-helpers with a sense of humor, humanists, unitarians, recovering Catholics. Links: artist, video

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Devin enters The Lost and Found searching for his camera. Instead he finds a criminal, a nerd, an addict and a father; transforming into their personas while coming across their belongings. Will this journey help him find what’s truly important? Directors: Tom McNeill & Scott Reagan. Recommended for: audiences over 16, teenagers, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (African American). Links: artist, show, video

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Follow one man on his two year quest to find, understand, and believe in that crazy little thing called love. Using content drawn from over fifty interviews with folks from all walks of life, “The Love Project” is a frank, ferocious, and fearless adventure into the depths of the human experiences of sex, loneliness, and romantic love. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, LGBT community. Link: show

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Based on an outrageous true story, “Misadventures in the Art of Movie Making” explores the guts and humor needed to stand up for one’s own peculiar creativity. Annie Worden plays the entire cast and crew of a low budget independent film as they laugh, cry, and outright panic during the production of their first feature film. Director: Michael Perlman. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community

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A party for her periods at twelve. Swore to her mother she was a virgin at nineteen. Became a dusky English rose at twenty-two. Meera Simhan stars in this comically tragic coming of age story about growing up as a good little girl in Orange County, CA. Director: Shishir Kurup. Dramaturg: Ravi Kapoor. Producer: Megha Kadakia. Recommended for: teenagers 16 and over, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (south Asian – Indian from India). Links: video, related, related2

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“Masterful performance of a fine play.” Venya loves drinking and sex. En route to see his girlfriend, he embodies a scathing-comedic indictment of a system designed to subjugate spirit, intellect, and passion. Ironically, Venya’s existentialist hallucinations and hedonistic excesses celebrate all three. “Moscow Stations” embraces the entire life experience. This is one train you’ll want to catch! Director: Graham McDonald. Author: Venedict Yerofeyev. Adaptation & Translation: Stephen Mulrine. Designer: Michelle Lo. Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (Russian, former USSR countries). Links: artist, show, video

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An original monodrama searching for Mozart’s sister, Nannerl – the female Mozart, the keyboard virtuoso and composer, who as a child toured through all of Europe performing with her brother, to equal acclaim, and who faded away and left behind nothing of her own. How could we have lost a female Mozart? Director: Anna Sroka. Playwright: Paweł Grabowski. Composer: Nathan Davis & Phyllis Chen. Costume Designer: Magdalena Dąbrowska. Recommended for: all audiences, ethnic community (Polish), women, musicians. Links: artist, show

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Dina, a middle class Jewish girl raised on the tough streets of the Upper West Side, has endured a great many hardships in her young life. Come join her on this theatrical journey as she opens her heart and shares her life story through the ancient art of making fun of others. With a name like PLOTCH, would you expect anything else? Director: Leslie Collins. Producer: Sivan Hadari (Best Festival Debut, 2010 United Solo Theatre Festival). Recommended for: all audiences. Link: video

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If you think that all parents tell their children about the birds and the bees, then think again. Cara’s Mom will tell you that the birds, bees and genitals don’t mix! This one-woman show – with a twist! – gives you a glimpse into growing up as the daughter of a sex therapist and does not apologize for it! Director: Stephan Varnier. Playwrights: Cara Maltz & Stephan Varnier. Composer: Keith Varney. Accompanist: Garrit Guadan. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community. Links: artist, show, video, video2, related

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Get behind the wheel with Robin Gelfenbien, an insecure goody-goody, who seeks redemption on the road in the Wienermobile. After years of being bullied, can she handle a horndog co-pilot, a media circus and her college nemesis? Ketchup with her adventures! 4 stars (Time Out New York). “The highlight of Fringe Festival” (New York Magazine). Director: Rachel Eckerling. Playwright: Robin Gelfenbien. Sound Designer: Marcelo Anez. Video Designer: Piama Habibullah. Producer: Robin Gelfenbien. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (Jewish), anti-bullying advocates. Links: artist, show, video, related, related2

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One birthed her, one nursed her, one raised her. Now she’s burying all three. A daughter is called back to the red clay of Georgia to bury her three moms and shape her own identity. Good Lord Almighty! Who are all these crazy people at the funerals?! Director: Leslie Collins. Recommended for: all audiences, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, American Southerners. Link: show, related

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Two-time Best-in-Fringe winner (NYC Fringe) blends storytelling, myth, and poetry into a blisteringly funny solo-theatre exploration of love and its aftermath. “He is not a character actor nor a comedian but someone with a perpetual story and an extraordinary talent for engaging an audience” – Backstage. “Remarkable… a serious artist” – Village Voice. Collaborator: Jim Lasko. Director: Paul Stein. Composer: Brian Mendes. Photo by Dixie Sheridan. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (Latino). Links: artist, related

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“The Nightingale and the Rose” (after Oscar Wilde), is a solo dance theater. A story of unrequited love, this romantic “movement poem” opens up space for imagination. The romantic era may be over, but the characters of that vanishing time still gently awake on the stage. Can we still recognize them in ourselves, or are they lost forever in a different time? Director: Elena Panayotova. Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre community. Link: artist

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What does the Marquis de Sade’s “Juliet” have that Kelsi doesn’t? Nabokov’s “Lolita,” Andre Breton’s “Nadia?!” Kelsi has read them all in her prep school classes. But, to dedicate her life to re-living theirs? If only she could sober up long enough… like, you know, whatever. Director: Caroline McGee. Playwrights: Allan Graubard, Caroline McGee & Jersey McElroy. Recommended for: all audiences, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community

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A macabre comedy, “OH MY IRMA” unravels the plight of Mission Bird – an insatiably inquisitive, socially inept young woman – whose determination to figure out why Irma has died leaves her defending a crime of her own. “’OH MY IRMA’ sends you out of the theatre dazzled.” 4.5 Stars, Edmonton Journal. Director: Alisa Palmer. Dramaturg: Andy McKim. Set & Lighting Designer: Dave DeGrow. Sound Designer: John Gzowski. Costume Designer: Camilla Koo. Photo by Aviva Armour-Ostroff. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, LGBT community, people who didn’t like theatre seem to love this show. Links: artist, show, related

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Imagine God coming to a Parents Anonymous meeting and publicly revealing the struggles he encounters with raising his children. This sensational and moving narrative focuses on a topic that is rarely touched upon: the relationship between a father and his son. Newsweek named it “a divine play” and called its creators “mad or genius.” Director: Waldemar Śmigasiewicz. Playwrights: Katarzyna Wasilewska & Jacek Wasilewski. Set & Costume Designer: Joanna Adamkiewicz. Recommended for: all audiences, ethnic community (Polish). Links: artist, video

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Fragile and ferocious, in this feast of human spirit we join a woman and her stick, part warrior part housewife, on an adventure that thrives in the territory and composition of language, sound and body. Born out of Rock-and-Roll and teetering toward Clown, the subjects include addiction, loneliness, and the deterioration of the body. The performance somehow spawns utter delight. Recommended for: all audiences, children, teenagers, adults, theatre community. Link: artist

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“Once Upon a Caterpillar” is the funniest show you have never seen. This show is a comedic theatrical piece, which digs into the hearts of its audience members with an unexpected dose of reality. This type of storytelling takes its spectators on an emotional roller coaster filled with hope, laughter and tears. Recommended for: all audiences. Links: show, related

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Paris. 1890. An infamous courtesan and the hoax of the century. To pull it off, she’ll need every wile in her arsenal and a little help from her friends. A quick and saucy romp through the Parisian demimonde, “Paris Unlaced!” delivers laughs, heart, and bien sûr, a little risqué business. It’s girl power, 19th-century style. Playwright: Juliane Hiam. Photo by Kevin Sprague. Recommended for: adults. Links: artist, video, related

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A marvellous scene of a heroine’s transformation, when she confesses to unrequited love and takes off the kitsch wig, shows that from behind the mask of the tart emerges the inhumanly tired face of a resigned woman, overwhelmed by loneliness and awareness of her passing beauty, which so far has made her attractive in the eyes of the public – that means – no-one. Director: Marta Ogrodzińska. Author: Pedro Almodóvar. Translation: Hanna Torrent-Piasecka and Caryl Swift. Adaptation: Remigiusz Grzela. Make-up: Hubert Grabowski. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (Polish). The show will be performed in Polish, with English translation. Links: artist, video, video2, related

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Of relationships, Bertolt Brecht famously said, “A woman must give up a lot.” For the women in his life, that included their freedom, their sanity, their place in history. Based on historical accounts, “The Pawnbroker” is the controversial story of Bertolt Brecht’s legend, and what five women lost to create it. Director: Diana Buirski. Sound Designer: Chris Comfort. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, women’s interest/feminist community. Link: artist

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On the occasion of his birthday, one desperate, middle-aged New Yorker has a drink, a smoke, and cleans house! This one-man musical is extremely heartfelt and very funny! The Storyteller goes on a journey of self-exploration told through monologues, colorful characters and original songs. A complete soul-stirring, foot-stomping, laugh-out-loud musical experience! Recommended for: all audiences, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (including African-American, Latino and others). Links: artist, show

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At what point did Uggs and flip-flops become acceptable dinner attire? Probably just around the same time we all went on Prozac and started reading “The Secret.” In “Pleased to Enjoy the Difficulty,” Katharine McLeod tackles the big questions, navigating the world of self-improvement and our obsession with finding True Happiness – one pair of impossibly high stilettos at a time. Director: Bryn Boice. Recommended for: teenagers, adults. Link: artist

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A darkish comedy. Prostate cancer causes a sexually frisky man to become a non-testosteronial eunuch. The play probes what it means to be a man (father, son, friend, husband, lover) when the thing that defines manhood is gone. He discovers women are not just to sleep with but to be awake with. Will the lessons stick? Recommended for: all audiences, adults, elderly, theatre community, prostate cancer survivors, patients, practitioners, families, support groups. Link: artist

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Developed by Spark and Echo Arts, “Project Paul” is an explosive performance that brings to life one of history’s most compelling and controversial figures, the Apostle Paul. Composer/Performer Jonathon Roberts weaves Paul’s original writings with new music and soundscapes featuring over forty musicians and actors. Text: Apostle Paul. Poetry: Christy Bagasao. Video Art: Scott Baye. Recommended for: all audiences, children, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, church folk. Links: show, video

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Frozen in a moment of crisis, an emotionally and physically drained Cindy must choose: ignore the ringing telephone and get the sleep she so desperately needs, or make another late-night rush to help the ill mother who’s never once said I love you. Powerful and honest, it reflects the struggle millions of Americans invisibly live as part of today’s Sandwich Generation. Director: Reno Venturi. Voice of Dad: Edward Wolfe. Recommended for: all audiences. Links: artist, show

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A visceral fable about the power of fantasy, as told by the Butcher – refugee, criminal, shaman – through poetry, martial dance, and folk songs in an invented language. A series of evocative meditations on deserts both real and imaginary. This interdisciplinary work opens new doors for solo performance by combining embodied abstraction with contemporary themes. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (immigrants and refugees of war), political activists, theme lovers (folk songs, ritual and mysticism, fantasy and magical realism). Links: artist, show, related

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“Running Into Me” tells the compelling story of Vickie’s struggle to defy the odds and succeed, despite a misguided upbringing in the poor, urban neighborhood of Compton, CA. She interweaves reenacted interviews of today’s urban youth throughout her story, taking us on an odyssey into the minds of young people while painting a vivid portrait of her own remarkable journey. Director: Bruce McCarty. Lighting Designer: Chris Dallos. Sound Designer: Hillel Meltzer. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, ethnic community, educators, teaching artists. Links: video, related

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A tell-all tale of music, passion and a very large instrument. True confessions of the woman behind the harp! Secrets never before revealed! From the initial spark of genius, to the grand plan to change the world, to the final reconciliation of art and life, this extraordinary musical monologue is a harpist’s comic, sometimes bittersweet confrontation with mortality. Director: Arthur Masella. Playwright: Kico Gonzalez-Risso. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, musicians, artists. Link: artist, related

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A hilarious, brutally honest play of transcendence via sex, love and spirituality. Ms. Ehlers catches herself every 15 years spinning through various stages of womanhood. Her experiences as a foreign exchange student, a mother in labor, and a middle-aged adulteress transform her understanding of what it is to be human. Director: Gary Dean Ruebsamen. Video, Sound & Lighting Designer: Dave Mickey. Producer: Miranda Wright. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, women’s interest/feminist community. Link: show

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Through a host of characters we relive the farmworker struggle of the 1960s and watch labor leader & Civil Rights activist César Chávez struggle for equality as he is brought masterfully to life by award winning solo performer Fred Blanco. Blending fact and fiction, this bilingual performance (English & Spanish) offers a compelling look at the man as he builds a union & creates a movement. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, ethnic community (Hispanic, Multi-ethnic)

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She became a mom for the glamour… Canadian Comedy Award nominee, Second City Alumnae, and star of her own Comedy Network special, Anne Marie is a bad mom – who quits…! This funny yummy mommy reveals the truth of modern motherhood to make you laugh and cry at the same time. “Poignant, hilarious, heart-breaking, and an all-together amazing journey” – Hadley Kay. Director: Debbie Tidy. Recommended for: all audiences, adults, mothers, fathers, parents, grandparents. Links: artist, show, related

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A politically incorrect one-woman comedic cage match pitting race against class against religion. Tales of a non-conformist black girl in extreme rural Maryland who almost “gives up on black people,” takes the Official Preppy Handbook as her co-pilot, and flees to a Delaware boarding school with dreams of being nouveau riche and living Jesus-free in Connecticut. Dark, dark comedy from a dark, dark comedian. Director: Leslie Collins. Recommended for: all audiences, adults, ethnic community (African Americans). Links: artist, related

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“They’re Not All Winners!” features McEnany’s smart, high-energy, and honest brand of comedy in sketches and stories that include a diverse group of characters at a Weight Watchers meeting, a woman who is consistently mistaken for a man in public restrooms, and a daughter who meets her father for dinner to discuss her dating a transgendered man. Director: Katie Watson. Recommended for: adults, LGBT community

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Shape shifting and time traveling though a “holographic tour” of human specimens of the past, a sexy, futuristic priest with a Latin twist, creates a techno-ritual which explains to the audience why they will receive their ritual lobotomy and how they will have their frontal lobes replaced with an appetite enhancing “iChip” sponsored by Starbucks, Wendy’s and Taco Bell. Playwright: Guillermo Reyes. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (Latino/Cuban). Links: artist, video

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JONAH BOKAER is an international choreographer, media artist, artist space developer and social entrepreneur. His work integrates choreography with digital media, resulting from cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists and architects. He will present a technology-influenced solo that has been animated, choreographed, and performed by the artist through the use of digital choreographic software and 3D animation. Production Associate: Adam H Weinert. Lighting: Aaron Copp. Image by Eric Boudet. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (French), dance audiences. Links: artist, video, related

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Engaging, compelling, poignant. Kathleen Buckstaff, a former LA Times humor columnist, weaves a story from emails and letters written during the last two years of her mother’s life. Kathleen tells about a mother and daughter’s journey through illness and beyond. Played to sold-out audiences in California and Arizona. Artistic Collaborator: Carol MacLeod. Music Selection: Gwynn Nelson. Lighting Designer: Rick Hamouris. Photo by Mark Gluckman. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, people who have been impacted by cancer, mothers and daughters. Links: artist, show

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The hilarious, inspiring story of an actress of color negotiating her way through life and Hollywood. Features several delightful characters, and at the center is the unforgettable Miss Etta Mae Mumphries, sometimes known as the black Forrest Gump. Etta Mae knows so many show biz folks, her humor and insight will delight you – and the rest is history! Backstage Voice: Clark Mitchell Long. Company: Caroline Bankhead & Mark Emerson. Recommended for: all audiences, children, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (African-American), church communities. Links: artist, video

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Currently in repertory at Serbian National Theatre, “Visitor” is a solo-show full of heart, humor and magic. A young man becomes the first person to own a camera in his entire village and with it he creates a connection spanning a century between a Serbian woman escaping a war and a young American writer in search of his roots. Directors: Strahinja Bojovic and Bogdan Janković. Playwright: Michael Vukadinovich. Composer: Marjan Babic. Recommended for: all audiences, ethnic community (Serbian). Links: video, related

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A prodigal dad returns to Salt Lake City only to find himself fighting for his kids (and life) in the Utah Courts. To finally be free of his demons, this “Greco-Mormon” must face his greatest nemesis – a relative who has been dead for decades. Laced with humor, sex, and crystal meth, bipolar ghosts and mortals collide in this compelling family drama! Recommended for: audiences over 18. Link: artist

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Wing-Man restores faith in the “world wide web” of comic humanity in a hot pursuit of ideal romantic love. Without a single live spoken word, physical comedian and clown Mark Gindick builds a romantic relationship with the audience in the tradition of silent comedians and clowns, reveling in the angst, humor and joy in our search for love. Co-Directors: David Shiner & Barry Lubin. Producer: Michael Bongar. Recommended for: all audiences. Links: artist, related

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Rebelling against her wealthy New York upbringing, indulging her uncanny eye for great art and artists, and becoming the “enfant terrible” of the modern art scene, Peggy Guggenheim lived a life almost too amazing to be believed. With humor, heartbreak and grand hauteur, “Woman Before a Glass” offers the unforgettable story of a woman before her time. Director: Austin Pendleton. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, ethnic community (references to the Holocaust and World War II). Link: video

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With greater aspirations than growing tomatoes for her scheming father in communist Poland, a young woman escapes to New York, works at Burger King, marries her Valley Stream sweetheart, meets Iggy Pop, dates Dee Dee Ramone and while rebelling against it, she falls in love with the world. (Best One-Woman Show, 2010 United Solo Theatre Festival). Director: Aleksey Burago. Set Designer: Olga Rogova. Recommended for: all audiences, ethnic community (Polish and Eastern European). Links: artist, video

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“12 children. 2 parents . 1 oldest daughter. Me. La Prima figlia. Which also meant that I was the cook, the nanny, the housekeeper and the lamaze coach.” Imagine being the eldest daughter of 12, raised by religious Italian immigrant parents. Patricia Canale takes you on a journey of unexpected insights and into the contradictions and amusing sins of working class people. Director: Michael Cormier. Producer: Alex Ryan. Recommended for: all audiences, adults, theatre community, LGBT community, ethnic community (Italian). Links: artist, show, video

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Join certified yoga instructor Casey Gates as she bends her way into seven different characters in this hilarious parody on yoga in America. Whether you’re a virgin-yogi or self-proclaimed guru this all-levels yoga show is guaranteed to have you laughing out loud and releasing tension all while warming your heart chakra. Director: Jeremy Aluma. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, yoga community. Links: artist, show, video, video2

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