The Hollywood Fringe Festival returns for its 15th anniversary on Thursday, June 12, as it is being billed as the biggest year in the festival’s history, with more than 416 shows across genres and a mix of new works, original works, and independent artists.

Families can check out Pandora’s Boombox, a nonverbal, family-friendly, physical theatre comedy. And for the adult clowning enthusiasts, there’s everything from the psychedelic clown odyssey of Soft Animal to the journey of The Life and Times of a Gay Bug. 

For Spanish speakers in the Los Angeles community, La canción de nuestros días is a play of memory, performed entirely in Spanish. El Mago Loco, conducted partly in Spanish, follows a Latino magician, and Veronica Osorio’s Medicine Woman, also featuring Spanish segments, features a sassy Venezuelan shamanic clown healing whomever comes her way. 

BIPOC creators are bringing varied works from Too Good To Be True a one-person show that dives deep into the realm of narcissism to The Troll by Rochée Jeffrey (grown-ish, SMILF) which blends stand-up, storytelling, and multimedia and chronicles her wild transformation from a relentlessly trolled internet punching bag to her own biggest fan. The Young Jane Show, To Be Liberated, Prostitute Investigator, deadbeat, and Falling: A Disabled Love Story are also on the docket.

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For pride month, works from Queer artists including Outdated (Criminal Minds, Wizards of Waverly Place), a dating guide veiled as a Fringe show for your average insecure, super fantastic, bi, queer, demisexual, femme creative with a disorganized attachment style, and celebrity designer Mat Sanders’ l one-man meltdown Rugburn. 

There are several timely and topical works debuting at Fringe this year including Peacock in the Rubble, which follows the journey of an artist after losing everything in the Eaton Fires, The American Dream about the effects of the current administration, Ghost Train, which parallels modern conversations with those that took place in 1930s Germany, and The Meeting which takes place during a fascist future when all forms of art are banned. 

Other standouts include Woody Fu: One Man John Wick 2.0, a comedy described as more than a parody, going deep into Keanu’s psychology, the hot new original play Amazing Sex Life of Rabbits, Rachel Redleaf’s (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Atypical) hilarious one-woman show Too Much of a Good Thing, and the razor-sharp and scathing family satire I Hope You’re Having Fun In Hell, Dad (written and directed former Netflix and CBS development executive Adriana Martinez.)  

Previews will run from Thursday, June 5, through Tuesday, June 10, followed by an opening night party on Wednesday, June 11. The official festival will run from June 12-29, followed by an Awards Ceremony on June 30.

Explore shows by category, tags, dates, venues, and more at hollywoodfringe.org/shows, by schedule at hollywoodfringe.org/schedule, or via the Hollywood Fringe Festival mobile app. Ticket prices are set by artists as part of the Fringe’s mission to empower creators to act as their producers, with the average ticket costing $15.