Hollywood Fringe Festival

#HFF23 — Hitchcock Lane @ Studio/Stage

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way According to the press release for the Hollywood Fringe Festival premiere of Hitchcock Lane (viewed in a streaming feed from Studio/Stage), Soda Persi has written a number of short scripts in the past few years. She has connected them now as snapshots of neighbors on the title street. The … Read more

#HFF23 – I Can’t Indian Good @ Zephyr Theatre

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Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move A last-minute, random solo show choice has turned out to be one of the most exciting powerhouse presentations of the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Writer/performer Brandon Raman gives a tour de force performance in his highly comedic yet very serious epic, I CAN’T INDIAN GOOD. Read more…

#HFF23 — Getting There @ The Hudson Theatres

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Dana Martin – Stage Raw Rebecca O’Brien is determined to survive. Getting There, written and performed by O’Brien and directed by Cameron Watson, is a story that circles the biggest battle of her life: breast cancer. The one-hour solo show is part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival and is now playing at the Hudson Guild … Read more

#HFF23 — The Consequences of Victoria Grey @ The Broadwater

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Johnny Cassidy has adapted his young adult novel The Consequences of Victoria Grey into an hour-long musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. His “futuristic novel with unimaginable plot twists” had to be a really difficult task to translate to the stage while adding 11 songs with lyrics by Cassidy … Read more

#HFF23 – Fatal Loins @ The Actors Company

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Pearson Jenks’s Fatal Loins at the Hollywood Fringe Festival is a fun romp through the vagaries of small theatre groups, especially those that do Shakespeare. A harried stage manager has to deal with a battling duo of actors, each itching for an Act Off to rid the stage of … Read more

#HFF23 — Wounded @ The Broadwater

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The proverbial phrase “revenge is a dish best served cold” is the mantra for Jiggs Burgess’s new play Wounded at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It may be hot on the back patio of Carrol’s (Craig Taggart) Texas home, but he has arranged an extravagant afternoon tea for his old … Read more

#HFF23 — Jackie @ The Broadwater

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  Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Each year there are dozens of solo performance shows at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Most are the type where the writer/actor bemoans the trials and tribulations of their life thus far. I prefer a solo show that looks at a historical figure, either at a crisis point in … Read more

#HFF23 — Flayed @ The Broadwater

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The flyer for Josiah Blunt’s one-person play at the Hollywood Fringe Festival describes the title Flayed as a verb: to have your skin peeled from your corpse or carcass. In the play, young Joshua Marsh, a recent graduate from a pastor’s college in conservative Virginia, is about to give … Read more