The BFF Binge Fringe Festival of FREE Theatre! What’s happening on BFF SATURDAYS? at Santa Monica Playhouse

Join us for the 11th Annual Santa Monica Playhouse BFF Binge Fringe Festival of FREE Theatre, Oct 13 – Nov 20, the only FREE Fringe Festival in the nation, offering 40 plays, workshops and family-oriented events with local and national artists from as far away as Chicago and Hawaii! What’s playing on BFF SATURDAYS?

Oct 17, 1:00pm: Kim Clevenger’s Reality Check – My Life is Reality TV. Twenty years of telling everyone else’s stories. Now she tells her own. Directed by Charlene Ward. 18+ Stay for the post-show R&R (Refreshments & Reception) with Kim.

Oct 17, 7:00pm: Charlene Ward’s Ranch Dressing “the Musical” My Life as a Server. Come out for a night of whine, one woman and songs starring Charlene Ward. 18+

Oct 24, 1:00pm: Visiting Artist Rick Hererra’s Vamos a reir un poco (Let’s Laugh a Little). Through humor and heartfelt storytelling, Rick reflects on growing up in Brooklyn and preparing for an unexpected new chapter—fatherhood. Rick tries to find the silver lining before his child is born. 16+

Oct 24, 2:30pm: Finding the Drama in Your Life: a writing workshop with award-winning writing coach Erik Patterson. Through a series of guided-writing sprints, award-winning creator of Your Daily Writing Prompt Erik Patterson will teach you how to mine the dramas of your own life into fiction. 16+

Nov 7, 1:00pm: Amanda Cohen’s My Pro Choice Life. A lifetime of activism, progressivism, and comedy-ism, told in experiences and sketches. Directed by Jim McCaffree. 18+ Stay for the post-show R&R (Refreshments & Reception) with Amanda.

Nov 14, 3:30pm: How far would you go to conceive? Alice Cutler’s dramedy Inconceivable is a story of infertility, pregnancy, and the life altering decision Alice is forced to make. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you won't forget. Directed by Vincent Viovanni. 16+

Nov 14, 7:00pm: Christie Evans’ You Talkin’ To Me? Olivia’s desire to reinvent herself brings her face to face with the many versions of herself she thought she had left behind. Performed by Caitlin Crowley, Deirdre O’Connor, Theda Weston, Christie Evans; Original Music by Sergei Stern. 18+

Binge on the BFF Free Theatre Festival – it’s your new Best Fabulous Friend!

Can't make it to the theatre? BFF shows are live-streamed, too!

Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by generous grants from the We Are Santa Monica Fund, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, Steve and Liane Horsley and Playhouse PALS.