Dark Humor

Drift off into the haze following a young woman finding herself through the chaos & mania of her world. Alexa Kasparian unlocks the gates to her mind–and her bedroom–while teetering the line between reality & her dreams.

‘don’t feed the bear’ is a raw opportunity to follow one character’s journey to find connection: connection with life, art, and ultimately the people in front of them.

TRYING is a dark cerebral comedy about a young man moving out of his apartment. After a life altering rejection, through grief, withdrawals, and a hand injury, in a seemingly hopeless moment, Bruce finds hope through pursuing what he loves. The question is; will he move out, and escape the mob?

An actor goes on a tumultuous journey in Hollywood as she navigates an unconventional relationship with a wealthy, eccentric film director. A testament to the resilience of the human spirit and transformative power of art. Dramaturg Jenny Sullivan.

How do we fabricate ourselves? Can we ever pin them down? A play about the many selves of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Join us in this darkly funny and deeply wordy exploration of our nation's Perpetual First Lady by Nobel Prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek.

A new, dark, buddy-comedy about two girls hosting a Halloween party when an unexpected ghoul ends up on the guest list. A real hot-girl play. TW: language, discussion of SA

Experience Edgar Allan Poe’s signature dark, dismal, and depressing side. And also his little-known humorous side, when we take poetic license in imagining him doing parodies of himself! Also includes live music, a song about Poe, a clown raven dream dance, and Poe’s tribute to … Bob Dylan??

Directed by Spencer Frankeberger A repressed nobody who thinks of himself as somebody. An addict. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf played out between hummingbirds. And a pussy eating dog. This is Wounded. In this darkest of comedies, the bleak paths our lives can lead us down are on full display.

This dark comedy tells the story of 3 young men who have a chance encounter due to a case of mistaken identity. That encounter changes their lives forever.

Since her mother leapt from a building when Avital was a baby, she's been 50-50 on being alive. But who wants to turn into their mother? Irreverent stand-up from an ex-Hasidic queer Jew.

Intense and compelling, "If I’m Good", is a play that encapsulates the fever dream and the endemic existential crisis that we all went through at the height of the pandemic. The play looks at two people on either ends of the political divide and asks:” Why and How did we get here?”

Join us for three short vignettes by two emerging Latinx playwrights, exploring the darkness that lurks all around us, and inside of us. From the depths of despair to the fires of fury, Teatro Oscuro invites you to an experience of the dark you won't soon forget.

An immediate, unconventional and poetic production of Chekhov's classic that asks how and why we become the architects of our own cages.

From, The Last Days of Storyville by, DANNY BARKER. Adapted/Performed by, Esquizito. The heroic story of Whitefolks Weber who by a strange twist of fate became, "one of New Orleans' most noted gamblers and ladies' men." Esquizito conjures up just some of the notorious characters of "The District".

The night Stephen plans to propose to Alice, her father Cal shows up ahead of her to talk him out of it. When he gives Stephen a chance to prove himself, things spin wildly out of control. As Stephen tries to tell Alice what's happened, their relationships fatal flaws are brought out in full view.