World Premiere

SHAKE is a dramatic/comedic exploration of deeply troubled people struggling to survive an unfamiliar, sorrowful and shaken world. Set in post-9/11 Manhattan, the play happens backwards over 12 months, starting in August, 2002 and going back to September, 2001.

Over one dozen local, national and international artists present their varied works at Theatre of NOTE in tandem with the first annual Hollywood Fringe Festival! Artists from New Zealand, Ireland, Wales, Seattle, Ft. Lauderdale, New York City and Los Angeles will be represented across a multi-ethnic, multi-gendered, multi-aesthetic spectrum on NOTE's tiny stage in the heart of Hollywood!

Six defiant new 10-minute plays by Los Angeles playwrights Padraic Duffy, Sean Christopher Lewis, Alina Phelan, Bill Robens, Tommy Smith and Delondra Williams. Late night presentation every Friday and Saturday at 11pm (time approximate after mainstage show "Holy Ghost".)

It's 1980 and Reagan has just been elected. On a secluded Greek island, an American ex-pat pursues his passions: wine making and his breathtaking young bride. On the eve of his first tasting, an old lover reappears, and with her, a wild and violent past.

Over 12 hours of bizarre, banal, outrageous, ecclectic, powerful, stupid, funny, scary, sexy, messy, standard and NSFW local and national acts attach Theatre of NOTE's tiny stage in Hollywood just so you can gorge yourself on the endless parade of madness and vision. One purchase price gets you "in and out" privileges! Stay for the whole thing OR come, leave, come back. OR see only one act and then flee for your everlovin' life! All options are open for only one low price of $15.00! Be there or... well, don't, I guess. But, you're gonna miss the likes of JOHN FLECK! TAYLOR NEGRON! LEON MARTELL! 10 WEST! KIRSTEN VANGSNESS and ALISON ARNGRIM (Nellie Olson from "Little House on the Prairie.") and dozens of others. I mean, COME ON!!!

Award-winning playwright Ken Urban brings Theatre of NOTE another World Premiere with his grungy new play:

NIBBLER

A comedy about the horrors of youth.

"I believe that believing is a waste of fucking time."

It's the summer of 1992 in the suburban hell of Medford, New Jersey. Five teenagers (played by adults) come to terms with impending adulthood, and find their lives changed by a mysterious visitor from another world. A dark comedy about that time when everything and nothing seem possible.

Three generations divided by race, culture and time connect when a white Southern woman discovers old love letters leading her to an African American half-brother. Louisiana-born chef Leo Price is living in Chicago caring for his aging mother, who has dementia, and his college-age daughter when white Gender Studies professor Didi Marcantel barges into his life with the provocative cache of letters. From the addled memories of Jessalyn Price come contradictory stories of her dangerous interracial romance with Didi’s father. As America debates whether the election of Barack Obama has rendered our nation "post-racial," Julie Hébert's provocative, poetic and powerfully moving new play asks: How can we move past racial differences and find a common language?