AT THE HOBGOBLIN PLAYHOUSE

August 6th-8th

This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script.

Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Saul Kimmer when his brother Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee’s trashy Western tale. Their volatile relationships swirls while staying in their mother’s house in this drama by award-winning playwright Sam Shepard.

August 28th-30th

Brothers Giorgio and Armani prepare for bed…but their normal routine is altered when a robber on the run randomly chooses their apartment to hide in, setting in motion an increasingly absurd chain of events involving a liberal police woman, the robber’s girlfriend, and a cigarette addicted waiter.

WINNER: #HFF26 StageCrafts Select Award!

WINNER: The 2026 Fringe First Award

September 6, 10, and 12

When an alien ship intercepts their courier vessel during a deep-space contract, two pilots must contend with both a faulty translator and their tempestuous personal history. Past Lives meets Star Trek.

September 3, 12, and 13

Experience for the first time the strange, mystical, heroic and sometimes horrific streets of Continental City as you dive head first into six original never before seen super hero story plays.

September 4-6, 10, 12, and 13

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a story of magic, betrayal, and forgiveness, focusing on Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, his daughter Miranda, and their magical island.

September 8-9, 11-13

When Sister Harmony and Brother Tranquility, two followers of the Happy Havens Church of Higher Enlightenment both awake after their Brother’s and Sisters have “ascended”, AKA completed the suicide-pact they all agreed upon, they go back and forth about what it means, and what they should do next.