Women

Melissa Strype makes her solo debut in "King of the Beanie Babies," an original one-woman-show in which she teaches her Beanie Babies what she's learned in the past 20 years. With lessons ranging from dolphin rides to pubic hair, join Melissa and 13 Beanie B's on the ride of a weektime.

Pretty in the USA is a sketch expose on beautiful people. We know your game. You think you can do whatever you want because you're beautiful. We can't afford plastic surgery to look like you, but we can do the next best thing: satire.

Allegations. Drunk? He said. She said. In a culture of amplified voices and distorted information where student athletes become celebrities, everyone has incentive to bury truth. When a survivor speaks up, can her truth rise above the noise? http://hff17.com/4752

This workshop explores the concepts of the embodiment of the voice utilizing conscious breath, movement, relaxation, singing, and action in motion. This is an unique opportunity for vocal play and discovery and to expand your confidence on stage and screen. Open up to your most intimate instrument.

What's a Tudor monarch to do when he has to face his six wives in the afterlife? The Edinburgh Fringe SELL OUT, smash hit makes its US Debut! Through humour, heartbreak, and hubris, Henry VIII comes face to face with what his legacy has become: one entirely defined by women.

It's a madcap, captivating romp when Willy Shakespeare and his leading ladies teach a 20th Century girl how to skip the prince and be a Queen!

A fantasia of silent film, clown, tap, ballroom, boxing, vintage gags, and innovative storytelling, IT GIRL pits an actress in a dance to the death against ShowBiz to find out if anyone can really have It all?

Tricked, sold, used and broken. Toys delves into the dark shadows of sex trafficking where children are products stripped to the core. Mixing dance, theatre and film, Toys captures the chilling cycles of abuse, exchange and sexual corruption in which playthings worldwide are entrapped.

BEST ENSEMBLE nominated Ripley tells stories of young women coming of age against a dystopian backdrop. Like the heroines of Hunger Games and Divergent, the women of DYSTOPIA fight oppressive powers. Ripley improvises one hour original plays based on your suggestions. No script, no planning, no net.

*WINNER HFF SCHOLARSHIP *WINNER SHORT + SWEET AWARD *WINNER ENCORE AWARD A dark comedy about a woman who goes toe-to-toe with her racial identity, religious guilt, crippling insecurity and destructive body shaming. Will the voices of self-doubt win? That's a question to ask yourself...

LOVE. BLOOD. LAUNDRY. A tough townie chick and an uptight young woman of privilege clash over everything from career choices to finger fucking... until one of them winds up dead.

On the night of the Boston Tea Party, Martha Washington killed a British solider. This is the previously unknown (and slightly untrue) story of how the wives of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin banded together to protect themselves and their country.

"Hush a bye, don't you cry..." Sweet Dreams: The Prologue is the first chapter in a series of immersive productions about a missing girl who dreamed of prince charming and true love's kiss. But venture too far into dreams and you might end up missing.

By Katherine Cortez. An apocalyptic event in an LGBT Nightclub changes everything; love becomes hate, hate becomes love. Special event 6/11 celebrating PRIDE and remembering Pulse; proceeds to LGBT Center.

This coming-of-age story follows Lu and Lynn, two women who find themselves alone in a bar with seemingly only a bottle of scotch in common. As they search to understand their relationship to time and space they realize their connection to each other is more than coincidence.