Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic at The Eastern

For seven years a certain boy wizard attended a school of female magic and male magic and conquered evil over insurmountable odds. The Puffs were also there. Puffs follows three unlikely friends and their house of loyal, well-meaning, socially awkward classmates who share an affinity for badgers and a talent for herbology. Set in a magical universe during seven eventful years-that may seem familiar to some-the Puffs become far more than secondary characters in someone elses grand story. Puffs is a fast-paced comedy with an ensemble cast that takes a whimsical look at what life looks like for the people never destined to save the world.Puffs opened at Peoples Improv Theatre in New York in 2015 and is now enjoying a record-breaking run off-Broadway at New World Stages, as well as running in Melbourne, Australia where it has become the longest-running play of the last century. Now The Eastern is bringing these magical misfits, who are just trying to make it through a magic school that is very dangerous for children, to San Diego for the first time. While Puffs is chock-full of homages to a familiar magical world, its also a standalone story with as much heart as hilarity that examines what it means to be a perennial underdog in a world of braves, smarts, andrich, blond jerks.