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	Through Heaven and Hell

	American Jataka Tales Temerity Theatre Writer: Ed Malin Director: Mark Duncan The Buddha takes a trip down south. To be reincarnated as something better, you need to learn something in this lifetime. No challenge is too great for this bunch of Americans! The classic Indian Buddhist stories retold for your amusement. 1h 0m   Local   Brooklyn, NY   Comedy        www.temeritytheatre.org
	AND SOPHIE COMES TOO TOSOS Writer: Meryl Cohn Director: Mark Finley Will Sophie Abramowitz wake from her coma? Her daughters hope not. Barbara fears a medical miracle; Perfect Rose is falling apart, and Sandra wants a penis. And Sophie Comes Too is a comedy about becoming fully conscious as one’s self. 1h 40m   Local   Manhattan, NY   Comedy   Drama    www.tosos2.org/Sophie.htm
	Borderline Culturcated Theatre Company Writer: Rob Benson Director: Jennifer Lunn One man’s journey from the euphoria of the dancefloor to the despair of the psychiatric ward, tied to an illness he can’t escape. Street poetry and punchy drama, exploring life, love, and the pills in-between. "Brilliant" "Beautiful" The List 0h 50m   International    London, UK   Drama   Solo Show    www.culturcatedtheatrecompany.webs.com
	Clemenza And Tessio Are Dead Writer: Gregg Greenberg Director: Gregg Greenberg & Kate Erin Gibson, Original Staging by Simcha Borenstein The cannoli is mightier than the gun. Don Corleone is squeezing veteran mobsters Clemenza and Tessio out of the family business. The pair fights to change their fate in a script that's already been written. An unauthorized parody of "The Godfather." 1h 30m   Local    Manhattan, NY   Comedy       www.clemenzatessio.com
	CONFIRMATION TEATRO OSCURO Writer: VINCENT MARANO Director: NAT CASSIDY Is there integrity in tolerance? Is identity inherited or are we responsible for the person we become? When an idealistic teacher sees his beliefs and his reality collide, will his students, friends and family survive the fallout? 1h 40m   Local   BRONX, NY   Drama    www.acollapse.com
	Dante's Divina Commedia - Inferno Black Moon Theatre Company Writer: Dante Director: Rene Migliaccio Do you dare to descend through the nine circles of Hell? This visually striking adaptation of Dante’s Inferno, directed by internationally acclaimed director, Rene Migliaccio, redefines traditional boundaries and offers a haunting and thought provoking examination of our own humanity. 1h 0m   Local    Brooklyn, NY   Multi-Media   Drama    blackmoontheatrecompany.org/
	Ectospasms Lola Lola Dance Theatre with the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality Writer: Edmund B. Lingan Director: Jessica Bonenfant and Edmund B. Lingan Choreographer: Jessica Bonenfant 1848. The dead contact the Fox sisters of Hydesville, NY, and Spiritualism is born. Trance-driven mediums and disembodied spirits move within a supernatural soundscape, illuminated by textures of light and otherworldly projections in this multi-media dance theatre piece. 1h 15m   Local   New York, NY   Dance   Multi-Media    www.lolalola.org
	ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Writer: Leah Hendrick Director: Morgan Gould Fanny, a 10,000 pound woman, is obsessed with food. But when her sense of taste vanishes, she is forced to confront her self-sabotage as the culprit ghosts of her past wriggle out from the underworld between her fat folds. 1h 25m   Local   ,    Comedy   Drama    www.elephantinthefringe.com
	For the Love of Christ! Writer: Book/Music/Lyrics by Ben Knox, Addtl. Lyrics & Arrangements by Brian J. Nash, Addtl. Book by Heather Collis & Karen Weatherwax Director: Holly-Anne Ruggiero Choreographer: Holly Cruz In 1979, a French-Canadian airline steward flew into San Fransisco and all hell broke loose! This bathhouse brouhaha explores the Advent of AIDS while satirizing humanity's extremes: religious zealotry, gay drama and maniacal monkeys make for an outrageous experience! 1h 30m   Local   Manhattan, NY   Musical   Comedy    fortheloveofchristthemusical.com
	High Plains Writer: Brian Watkins Director: Anthony Reimer There's something in the dark and it wants to fight. In this Western myth, a violent encounter with his brother hurls Jake onto the Colorado plains where he's confronted with much more than he meant to escape. What's chasing you? 0h 55m   Local    Brooklyn,  NY   Drama   Solo Show    www.highplainstheplay.com
	Home is the Sailor, Home From Sea WeThree Productions Writer: Alex Coppola Director: Alex Coppola Shouldn’t you bury it? After hitting and killing a deer on the way home from the funeral of a friend, three young men are confronted with crushing pangs of guilt, questions of closure and the impossibility of saying goodbye. 1h 30m   Local    Manhattan, NY   Drama   Comedy    www.homeisthesailor.com
	Inferno: The New Rock Musical Varius Productions LLC Writer: Rick Merino Director: Stephen Innocenzi Choreographer: Lynn Lesniak Needle Abandon all hope indeed. Dante, guitar in hand, leads a mighty band of demons across the river Styx. This psychedelic rock opera adaptation of the epic poem will have you moshing with the devil. Hell has never been so hot! 1h 30m   Local   Bloomingdale, NJ   Musical   Drama    www.infernothenewrockmusical.com
	Jesus Ride Deux Ex Productions Writer: Mike Schlitt Director: Nancy Keystone Journey through the first 100 years of the Savior on the silver screen: 33 films about Jesus Christ and confessions of the secular humanist non-practicing Jew who watched every one. The 2006 Outstanding Solo Show winner returns with a FringeNYC World Premiere. 1h 20m   National   Los Angeles, CA   Solo Show   Comedy    www.mikeschlitt.com
	Mark Storen's A Drunken Cabaret The Moxy Collective Writer: Mark Storen,Music and Lyrics by Mark Storen From Perth, Australia, An original Solo Show about love and violence. Filled with story and song, Mark Storen's A Drunken Cabaret is "A Philosophical and funny look at the taboo space where love turns homicidal", 4stars The Advertiser. 1h 0m   International    Perth, Australia   Solo Show   Musical    www.themoxycollective.com
	Poke Until Wince Writer: Matthew Chesmore Director: Matthew Chesmore In this dark comedy, six relationships reach their tipping point. Vanities and fantasies get exposed like raw nerves. You don’t want to poke at them. But you’re gonna, anyway. 0h 50m   Local    Manhattan,  NY   Comedy   Drama
	Savage International MeanBoy Productions Writer: Manny Liyes Director: Manny Liyes Love. Hell. Or Earth. A woman sentenced to hell must choose between love with a suspected killer, eternal damnation or an illegal return to earth. Two detectives of the afterlife chase her and their own truth in this sci-fi western. 2h 0m   Local    Queens, NY   Drama       www.myspace.com/savageinternationalfringe2009
	Sex and the Holy Land Happy Belly Productions Writer: Melanie Zoey Weinstein Director: Jenny Bloom Three best friends plunge into a stereotype-shattering sexploration of the Holy Land. A string of Israeli men lead Lili out of slavery from the Jewish Mothers in her mind. A coming of age adventure about liberation, religion and love. 1h 30m   Local   NYC, NY   Comedy   Drama    www.sexandtheholyland.com
	Spitting In The Face Of The Devil John Montgomery Theatre Company Writer: Bob Brader Director: Suzanne Bachner The sins of the father go on and on from son to son until someone chooses to end them. Little Bobby took a knife and nearly killed his father, the Bob Sr. nobody knew. Now his son tells all. 1h 28m   Local    Manhattan, NY   Solo Show   Drama    www.jmtcinc.com
	Sunday Best Azddak Performances Writer: Laura Canty-Samuel, Music by Laura Canty-Samuel and Ethan Forrest Wagner Hallelujah! One woman, ten characters and a wicked romp through the devilishly funny minds of members of a Black Pentecostal Church in Brooklyn. Questions of faith, loss, and hat size abound amid irreverent “ridiculosity”, punctuated with live gospel music. 1h 30m   Local    Brooklyn, NY   Solo Show   Comedy    www.sundaybestplay.com
	The Confessional The Cohort Theatre Company Writer: Jayson Akridge Director: Jayson Akridge Mild-mannered teacher, Stanley Prentiss, confesses to a horrific murder which may or may not have happened. The detectives on the case must journey into the innermost darkness a human soul is capable of in order to discover the truth. 2h 15m      Virginia Beach, VA   Drama       www.theconfessionalplay.com
	The Crow Mill Shake the Red Cape Productions Writer: Andrew Unterberg Director: Eli Gonda A home besieged by strangers. A newborn on the way. A couple unearths a grisly childhood while a mother loses her memories and secrets of their past. From the co-writer of FringeNYC '06 Overall Excellence Award Winner 'The Infliction of Cruelty'. 1h 50m   Local   Brooklyn, NY   Drama       www.thecrowmill.com
	The Doctor and the Devils Rag 'N Bone Theatre Company Writer: Dylan Thomas, Adapted by Daniel Balkin Director: Daniel Balkin A haunting crime drama by poet Dylan Thomas, based on the true story of body-snatchers turned mass-murderers. Devils brings to shocking life the tale of the young Doctor Rock, whose brilliant medical discoveries require an ever-fresher stream of corpses. 1h 30m   Local    Manhattan, NY   Comedy   Performance Art    www.thedoctorandthedevils.com
	The Secret of Our Souls-A Kabalistic Love Story Filmus, Inc. Writer: Book and Lyrics by Ben Goldstein Music by Phillip Namanworth Director: Ben Goldstein Music Director: Kat Sherrell Choreographer: Kathryn Sullivan A seeming bumpkin from the Carpathian Mountains ultimately reveals himself as the great 18th Century spiritual master, the Baal Shem Tov. Supported by his beloved soul-mate, Chana, he defies Church, State, and Satan himself to save his oppressed people. 2h 10m   Local   Manhattan, NY   Musical   Drama    www.filmusinc.com
	Winnemucca (three days in the belly) Shelby Company in Association with Little Red Square Writer: Dan Moyer Director: Wren Graves Jonah wakes up bloody in a seedy motel. With Big Chet and Suede Lucy's help he must complete a task he doesn't comprehend. This darkly funny re-imagining asks, "How do three days in the belly make a man a prophet?" 1h 20m   Local    Manhattan, NY   Drama   Comedy    www.shelbycompany.org