{"id":3804,"date":"2017-05-11T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T23:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Becomeimmersed.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2020-02-16T23:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T07:56:38","slug":"hollywood-fringe-festival-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becomeimmersed.com\/hollywood-fringe-festival-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Fringe Festival – Picks From Our Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The Hollywood Fringe Festival<\/a> is an annual celebration\u00a0where\u00a0people\u00a0can express their individual artistic talent through a series of conventional or unconventional performances. These performances\u00a0range from immersive theatre to a horror musical to a political satire. But the ultimate idea of the Fringe Festival is collaboration. Theaters offer up their space to artists that are given the freedom to create something special with no boundaries. And we, as patrons, get the ultimate reward: a month long celebration of theater and art, all within walking distance of each other. While\u00a0the Hollywood Fringe Festival is comprised of over 300 shows, we picked twenty-two shows and experience that we either can vouch for ourselves or shows that explored the darkest psychologies of the human mind while immersing the audience within the narrative.\u00a0Read one and support this wonderful endeavour.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3766″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 21+<\/p>\n Date: June 5th – June 24th<\/p>\n Location: Hollywood<\/p>\n Price: $17<\/p>\n Description: Take a walk in someone else\u2019s skin in this fully immersive theatrical experience. One audience member per performance. Morbid and disturbing with a twinge of black humor. A(Partment 8), the first show produced by ABC Project, received outstanding reviews from both critics and audience members at Fringe 2016. Now being remounted for 2017.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”2357″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 14+<\/p>\n Dates: Thursday, June 15th – Saturday, June 17th<\/p>\n Location: Undisclosed Location on the Northeast Side of Los Angeles<\/p>\n Price: $40<\/p>\n Description: Kansas, you have a choice. The Mid-West is in the midst of the dust bowl. You are in need of food, money, and shelter. Opportunity is scarce, hope is nowhere to be seen, and the future looks bleak. You happen upon a curious group of strangers who have set up a colorful tent on the edge of town \u2013All they ask is a moment of your time.. THE KANSAS COLLECTION is The Speakeasy Society\u2019s immersive, episodic investigation of L Frank Baum\u2019s OZ Series where the choices you make determine the path of your journey. After Dorothy left, the Scarecrow took charge of the wonderful land of Oz, but now things have gone awry. Oz and it\u2019s citizens are in distress. There is civil unrest, there is violence in the streets, and you are being recruited to serve in the Scarecrow\u2019s Armed Militia- but there is deception around every corner and things aren\u2019t quite what they seem.<\/p>\n Click for our reviews of Chapter One: The Key<\/a> or Chapter Two: The Axe<\/a> prior to their run at the Fringe Festival.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3822″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 16+<\/p>\n Dates: June 4th – June 15th<\/p>\n Location: Complex Theatres – 6476 Santa Monica Boulevard<\/p>\n Price: $12<\/p>\n Description: What may seem crazy may not be, and what may seem sane most likely is not\u2026<\/p>\n Do you trust all that you have been told, hear, see, and\/or believe\u2026<\/p>\n Meet Stanley\u2026.and take a deep breath\u2026as you will become enthralled with his obsession for saving air. And how society sees him as homeless\u2026.but is he really homeless or just trying to survive, literally\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3832″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 21+<\/p>\n Dates: June 1st – June 25th<\/p>\n Location: 6301 Santa Monica Boulevard<\/p>\n Price: $25<\/p>\n Description:\u00a0You met Emma online. Her profile says she likes rescue dogs, Tetris and therapy. Today is your first date. Too bad it will be terrible\u2026[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3893″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 18+<\/p>\n Dates: June 3rd, 10th, 17th, 21st, 23rd<\/p>\n Location:\u00a0Complex Theatres – 6476 Santa Monica Boulevard<\/p>\n Price: $15<\/p>\n Description: A dark comedy about America\u2019s hidden power structure, and the professional spin doctors locked in eternal war with it. Entrepreneur Marcia Bradford is in crisis: someone is smearing her in the media. The crisis PR firm of Lyndsey Klein & Andrew St. Jude must find out who the perpetrator is before Bradford is destroyed\u2026or they destroy themselves.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3759″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 16+<\/p>\n Dates: June 4th, 8th, 16th, 17th, and 23rd<\/p>\n Location:\u00a0Sacred Fools Theater – 6322 Santa Monica Blvd<\/p>\n Price: Pay What You Can<\/p>\n Description: The most romantic theory in physics.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom this moment on, our entangled light, our lives, cannot be explained without the other.\u201d<\/p>\n From the Fringe veterans who brought you the award winning Murder Blood Bear Story <\/em>and How to be a Virgin (in 12 Morally Ambiguous Steps)<\/em> comes a love story on the smallest scale imaginable. A miraculous journey of self discovery through cosmic light to illuminate the beauty of the dark, both in space and mind. A portrait of a nuclear family awakened by a fractured past. An astrophysicist looking to the moon to find his missing wife. A mother swallowed up by the dark. A daughter desperate to heal them both. And an experiment to connect them all (Also there\u2019s a cat).<\/p>\n Check out our interview about Quantum Entanglement here<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3830″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 16+<\/p>\n Dates:\u00a0June\u00a02nd – June 24th<\/p>\n Location:\u00a0Complex Theatres – 6476 Santa Monica Boulevard<\/p>\n Price: $15<\/p>\n Description:\u00a0\u201cFallen Stars at the Charity Sale\u201d peeks into the inanimate lives of old items languishing at a charity sale. These objects reminisce about their glory days yet desperately hope to gain a new life with new owners\u2014the audience.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3952″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 18+<\/p>\n Dates:\u00a0June 4th, 11th, 17th, 24th<\/p>\n Location:\u00a0Asylum at Underground Theatre – 1312 North Wilton Place<\/p>\n Price: $20<\/p>\n Description: Let’s Make Nudity Great Again!<\/p>\n Original short pieces in a nude variety hour of comedy, drama, song, dance and storytelling. Like last year, the show includes a mandatory nude audience. Don\u2019t forget to bring a towel to place on the seat. You are simply watching the show in your birthday suit. Experience naturism with us!<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3953″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 16+<\/p>\n Dates: June 4th – June 25th<\/p>\n Location:\u00a0Actors Company – 916 North Formosa Avenue<\/p>\n Price: $10<\/p>\n Description: Give me a hotcomb or give me death! Taking place in various locations around Los Angeles, Hotcombs,Homegirls&HOMICIDES promises to be a fun treat for the Fringe audience. 2 women with dreams to ruin the world, a not so special tween, a motivational speaker on the edge, a killer beautician and a gossip columnist that becomes a cautionary headline are just a few of the whacky characters you will meet in this colorful sketch show written and directed by Nina Childs .<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3820″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 18+<\/p>\n Dates:\u00a0June\u00a03rd, 10th, 25th<\/p>\n Location:\u00a0Theatre of NOTE – 1517 North Cahuenga Boulevard<\/p>\n Price: $10<\/p>\n Description:\u00a0Two actresses living in Los Angeles are being filmed on a reality show. Grace, who was recently cast in a major production at the Pantages Theatre, is becoming increasingly paranoid as her nerves seem to be getting the best of her. Starting to see things that may or may not be there, she begins to think that her \u201cfriend\u201d Kate may be behind it all. In the wake of betrayal and broken trust, both girls are left with only one question. Are the demons living inside or out?[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3828″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 18+<\/p>\n Dates: June 6th – June 24th<\/p>\n Location: Santa Monica Boulevard<\/p>\n Price: $15<\/p>\n Description: Once upon a time there lived a young woman who dreamed of prince charming and true love\u2019s kiss. But venture too far into dreams and you might end up missing. Sweet Dreams: The Prologue is the first chapter in a series of immersive productions about a missing girl and the haze beyond reality. Will you end up too far in dreamworld yourself?[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”75px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”3826″ img_size=”600×600″ full_width=”1″ opacity=”100″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Ages: 18+<\/p>\n Dates: June\u00a01st, 8th, 11th, 25th<\/p>\n Location:\u00a0Asylum at Underground Theatre or Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre<\/p>\n Price: $10<\/p>\n Description: A tale of love and loss, touching on our past, present and future. Join us on this adventure into the unknown.<\/p>\nABC Project<\/a> – A(partment 8)<\/h3>\n
Speakeasy Society <\/a>– Chapters 1 & 2: The Key & The Axe<\/h3>\n
H&H Design Experience – Dead Air<\/h3>\n
Capital W – Red Flags<\/h3>\n
The Ichabod’s Cranium Players – Dark Arts<\/h3>\n
Lucid Dramatics\u00a0– Quantum Entanglement<\/h3>\n
Fallen Stars at the Charity Sale<\/h3>\n
AANR-West & Southern California Naturist Association – Naked Shorts (Less is More)<\/h3>\n
Nina Childs Productions – Hot Combs, Homegirls, & Homicides<\/h3>\n
Dogboy Productions – Monsters<\/h3>\n
Shine On Collective<\/a> – Sweet Dreams: The Prologue<\/h3>\n
Firelight Collective – Fire & Light<\/h3>\n