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Hamlet Shut Up Sacred Fools Theater Company Writer: Story by William Shakespeare, Adapted by Jonas Oppenheim and the Ensemble, Music by Josh Senick Director: Jonas Oppenheim Classic tragedy. Silent comedy. Shakespeare's masterpiece, without all that pesky dialogue. Award-winning production from Los Angeles-based Sacred Fools features vaudeville, puppetry, live original piano score, and a shark. Holy shhhhh! 1h 25m   National   Los Angeles, CA    Comedy   Clown/Mask    Staycation: Literary Lane   Fantasy Island Excursion    www.hamletshutup.com    VENUE #5: The First Floor Theatre @ LA MAMA           Sat 14 @ 8:30  Mon 16 @ 2:30  Wed 18 @ 9:45  Fri 20 @ 8:15  Sat 21 @ 2:30

HAMLETTES FullStop Collective Writer: Patrick Shaw Director: Lillian Meredith Three pre-pubescent girls are staging THE play. To determine the #1 actor, Alexandra (Hamlet), Ophelia (...), and Chloe (everyone else) will NEVER drop character. Ever. Unfortunately, Denmark's tale will magnify their frenemy quibbles into a very real tween tragedy. 1h 30m   Local   New York, NY    Comedy   FringeHIGH    Staycation: Backstage   Summer Session    www.fullstopcollective.org    VENUE #14: The Cherry Pit           Sat 14 @ 5:45  Sat 21 @ NOON*  Tue 24 @ 9  Wed 25 @ 4:15  Sat 28 @ 7:15

Happy Birthday, Mom Teaspoon Productions Writer: Meghan Gambling Director: Meghan Gambling Olivia flies home from college to surprise her mother on her 55th birthday, only to discover Mom, clad in leather, waiting for a ripped young man she met on Craigslist to come over for sex. 0h 55m   National   Los Angeles, CA    Comedy   Drama    Staycation: Family Vacation   In Someone Else's Shoes    www.happybdaymom.biz    VENUE #14: The Cherry Pit           Fri 13 @ 5  Sat 14 @ 10:45  Tue 17 @ 8:45  Wed 18 @ 2  Thu 19 @ 9:45

Have a Nice Life Nice People Theatre Company Writer: Music and Lyrics by Conor Mitchell, Book by Matthew Hurt Director: Bill Felty, Musical Director: Tom Brady Choreographer: Nancy Berman Kantra Direct from a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Have a Nice Life was hailed by Fringe Review as "a work of true brilliance." This sharp-witted, therapeutic musical from Philadelphia follows seven eccentric characters during their weekly group therapy session. 1h 30m   National   Philadelphia, PA    Musical   Comedy    Staycation: In Someone Else's Shoes   Absurdly Surrealist Dream    www.nicepeopletheatre.org    VENUE #12: Lucille Lortel Theatre           Fri 20 @ 10  Sat 21 @ 4:45  Sat 21 @ 11:30  Sun 22 @ 3:15  Sun 22 @ 10:30

Headscarf and the Angry Bitch Zehra Fazal Writer: Zehra Fazal Join Zed Headscarf, 'The Muslim Weird Al,' on a folk-rock comedic exploration of faith, love, sex and what it means to grow up Muslim in America. This beef ain't halal! Winner of Best Solo-Show Award, 2009 Capital Fringe Festival. 1h 0m   National   Washington, DC    Solo Show   Comedy    Staycation: In Someone Else's Shoes   Family Vacation    www.zehrafazal.com    VENUE #15: The Studio @ Cherry Lane Theatre           Fri 13 @ 7:15  Sat 14 @ NOON  Mon 16 @ 6:15  Wed 18 @ 8:15  Fri 20 @ 3:45

Hearts Full of Blood The New Colony Writer: James Asmus Director: Andrew Hobgood A horrifying secret forever affects the lives of a couple and their two single friends. Chicago's The New Colony brings their critically-acclaimed hit to Fringe. "Quite the riveting show." (Chicago Tribune) "Gut-wrenchingly tragic and very, very funny." (TimeOut Chicago) 2h 0m   National   Chicago, IL    Comedy   Drama    Staycation: Ride the Rollercoaster of Love   Through Heaven & Hell    www.thenewcolony.org    VENUE #17: HERE Arts Center- Mainstage Theater           Tue 24 @ 7  Thu 26 @ 9:30  Fri 27 @ 8  Sat 28 @ 5  Sun 29 @ NOON

The Height of the Eiffel Tower Rambunctious Productions Writer: Morgana O'Reilly, Co-Creator Abigail Greenwood Director: Abigail Greenwood The Hulme Family, West Auckland, New Zealand. Nathan is thirteen, awkward, fixated with fish. Anna-Louise is sixteen pregnant and horrible. Katie's booked her first job as a hand model. But yea-no-yea Mum's got a life to live too. 0h 50m   International   Auckland, New Zealand    Solo Show   Comedy    Staycation: Absurdly Surrealist Dream   In Someone Else's Shoes    www.rambunctious.co.nz    VENUE #4: 4th Street Theatre           Fri 13 @ 6:45  Sat 14 @ 2  Sun 15 @ 8:30  Tue 17 @ 4:15  Wed 18 @ 9:30

Hello, I Must Be Going M&M Productions Acting Company, Inc. Writer: Albi Gorn Director: Alan Fox Your newborn son in one arm, your stillborn daughter in the other, your stroke-ravaged father smiling inscrutably. You don't know whether to laugh or cry. Chances are when you see Hello, I Must Be Going you'll do both. 1h 30m   Local   Hastings on Hudson, NY    Drama   Comedy    Staycation: Family Vacation   My NYC Story    VENUE #8: Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory           Sat 14 @ 7:15  Sun 15 @ 2  Mon 16 @ 7:45  Tue 17 @ 5  Wed 18 @ 10  Thu 19 @ 7:15

Heron & Crane DA! Theatre Collective Writer: Kirk German, Music by Travis Cooper Director: Kirk German & Heather Huggins Choreographer: Lisa del Rosario Two strong-willed swamp-birds discover that becoming friends requires a little give-and-take... or maybe a lot! This dynamic, interactive comedy explores diversity, problem-solving and ecology. Adapted from a Russian folktale, with a new ending every time! 1h 15m   National   Austin, TX    FringeJR   Comedy    Staycation: Literary Lane   To the Zoo    www.datheatrecollective.org    VENUE #15: The Studio @ Cherry Lane Theatre           Wed 18 @ NOON  Thu 19 @ 2  Thu 19 @ 7:30  Fri 20 @ 5:30  Sat 21 @ 3:45

Heterosexuals Up Top Productions in Association with the Rude Pundit Writer: Lee Papa Director: Lee Papa A man and a woman make sexual small talk. She invites him to touch her. Then we're into a scathing, obscene comedy about how much we just want to fuck. The NY Times calls Papa "a tornado of a writer." 1h 30m   Local   Manhattan, New York    Comedy   Drama    Staycation: Ride the Rollercoaster of Love   Through Heaven & Hell    www.heterosexualstheplay.blogspot.com/    VENUE #14: The Cherry Pit           Tue 17 @ 6:30  Thu 19 @ 2  Sat 21 @ 10  Mon 23 @ 8  Wed 25 @ 2

high five Writer: Angela Hanks Two siblings battle over their childhood home as one desires to move forward in their present while the other is nestled firmly in the terrifying events of the past. 1h 5m   Local   Brooklyn, NYC    Drama   Comedy    Staycation: Down South & Out West   Haunted House    www.highfiveplay.webs.com    VENUE #14: The Cherry Pit           Fri 13 @ 10:45  Thu 19 @ 6  Fri 20 @ 7  Mon 23 @ 2  Fri 27 @ 5:45

Hip Hop High-The Musical Z-Man Films and Records Writer: Z-Man , Cindy Topps, Music and Lyrics by Z-Man Director: Jana Mattioli, Z-Man Choreographer: Jonah Biddle, Shani Alston This Urban tale centers on newcomer Drew Moore who witnesses a murder by fellow students. Drew must choose between being a cowardly bystander or fighter. Hip hop dance will be his secret weapon and rap will be his battle Cry! 1h 10m   Local   Newburgh, NY    FringeHIGH   Musical    Staycation: Rock and Roll Rebellion   Backstage    www.hiphophighthemusical.com    VENUE #7: The Ellen Stewart Theatre @ LA MAMA           Fri 13 @ 5  Sat 14 @ 8:15  Sat 21 @ 4:45*  Sun 22 @ 8:30  Sat 28 @ NOON

How Alfo Learned to Love Women Broken Bat Productions Writer: Vincent Amelio Director: Kathleen Bishop I'm Alfo Idello. And I have an addiction to women. Does it stem from growing up in my family's estrogen-fueled Italian bakery? Revisiting that wacky world of wedding cakes and women just might help me give up the sugar. 1h 50m   Local   Brooklyn , NYC    Comedy   Comedy    Staycation: Ride the Rollercoaster of Love   Down the Aisle    www.howalfolearnedtolovewomen.blogspot.com    VENUE #2: Connelly Theater           Sat 14 @ 9  Tue 17 @ 2  Wed 18 @ 4  Sat 21 @ NOON  Thu 26 @ 9:30

How My Mother Died of Cancer, and Other Bedtime Stories Robert Intile, Jr. and Alina Gutierrez in association with The Dreamscape Theatre Writer: Chris Kelly Director: Laura Moss Kate Morgan, 25, copes with her mother's death by writing a comedy about cancer and its impact on her family. She's also cast her family and friends as themselves. When they hijack the performance, the results are disastrous. 1h 30m   Local   Queens, NYC    Comedy   Drama    Staycation: Family Vacation   Backstage    www.cancerplay.com    VENUE #9: The Robert Moss Theater           Fri 13 @ 5  Sat 14 @ 7  Sun 15 @ 4:15  Fri 20 @ 6:15  Sun 22 @ 2:15

The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival Batture Productions Writer: Rob Florence Director: Dann Fink The heartbreak. The humanity. The humor. Five true stories. Their own words. 1h 30m   National   New Orleans, LA    Comedy   Drama    Staycation: Battleground Tour   Down South & Out West    www.KatrinaComedy.net    VENUE #16: The SoHo Playhouse           Fri 13 @ 9:15  Sun 15 @ 5  Wed 18 @ 9:45  Wed 25 @ 3  Sun 29 @ 4:15

The Hyperbolist bang-bang-fou! Writer: Joe Mazza Director: Dan Kerr-Hobert, Joe Mazza, Susan Ask A grandiloquent farce of tiny proportion-- or-- desperate human probes love with puppets. New York premier of Joe Mazza's phantasmagorically raucous world. _______"Mazza works his puppets with sublime subtlety." --Chicago Reader _______"An archly conceived puppet show." --Chicago Tribune 1h 0m   National   Chicago, IL    Puppetry   Multi-Media    Staycation: Absurdly Surrealist Dream   Through Heaven & Hell    www.joemazza.org    VENUE #18: HERE Arts Center- Dorothy B. Williams Theater           Sat 14 @ 2:30  Sun 15 @ 8:30  Fri 20 @ 8:45  Sun 22 @ 9:45  Thu 26 @ 6  Fri 27 @ 7

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