The BFF Binge Fringe Festival of FREE Theatre! What’s playing FRIDAYS at NINE? 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 FRIDAYS at NINE?

Oct 16. 9pm: Ruth Brand’s RUTHLESS, Ruth’s unadulterated opinions on everything from divorce to kids to aging. Ruth began the year planning a move, and instead, she received a cancer diagnosis. Hello Radiant Radiation! Ruth is Ruthless and unapologetic in this hilarious comedy show. 16+ Stay for the post show R&R (Refreshments & Reception) with Ruth.

Oct 23, 9pm: Michael McHale’s A Search for Robert Hennessy. One man. One name. Fresh off his Edinburgh Festival Fringe tour, this award-winning solo show follows a search that leads to family secrets, John Stamos, and a life lived fully with AIDS. Funny, heartbreaking, and utterly human — a story about what we find when we finally stop searching. 16+

Oct 30, 9pm: David Pavao’s POSTER CHILD: How Charlie’s Angels Kicked My Ass Out Of The Closet. Not just a coming out story, it is a love letter to all those talented and pioneering women of 1970’s and early 80’s TV. Told with a great deal of humor and a lot of heart, POSTER CHILD is a universal story about wanting to fit in and finding self-acceptance that anyone, no matter their orientation, can relate to. Directed & Developed by Jessica Lynn Johnson; Choreographer Pamela Najera-Michael. 15+

Nov 6, 9pm: Betsy Cox’s Broke Bitch Got Rich. A hilarious, unexpectedly moving, fearless, inspiring and balls-out solo comedy. Comedian Betsy Cox transforms her batsh!t Louisiana childhood struggles into hysterical moments in a f-ed-up fairy tale about breaking out of boxes to find true worth. Produced by Jessica Lynn Johnson; Associate Producer Lorraine Lopez. 18+

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

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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.