SF/LA-based production company PianoFight kicks off its three-month long, audience-judged playwriting competition ShortLived 3.0 in San Francisco and Los Angeles, running every Friday and Saturday night at 8:00 PM at The Off-Market Theater (SF) and The Asylum Lab (LA), April 2- June 26.

Local playwrights and theater groups in each city compete for audiences who decide the two winners of the grand prize: the chance to pen a full-length play to be produced by PianoFight for a one-month run in two cities. 56 Playwrights, 52 Performances, 29 Actors, Two Cities, One Show, You Pick the Winners: PianoFight’s ShortLived 3.0

SHORTLIVED 3.0 FORMAT, RULES AND SUBMISSION INFO

After sold out shows in November and December 2009, our original female-driven variety show, Monday Night ForePlays, returns to the stage February 15 – March 29 at 8 PM at 965 Mission St., Stage 250 Off-Market Theaters. You’ll see an all-new line-up of titillating sketch comedy, original dance numbers, and a rotating line-up of musical acts, as well as renowned comics Emily Heller, Janine Brito, and Alicia Dattner.

Mondays at 8:00pm, Feb. 15 – Mar. 29

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After two years of impressing the hell out of the Bay Area theater community, PianoFight was tapped to be a producing partner with Three Wise Monkeys as part of BOA. “The Philadelphian,” by Sam Leichter, premieres as part of BOA’s Program 1 line-up, Thursday, February 18th at 8:00pm at the Boxcar Theater. Stars Brian Trybom and Ray Hobbs (producer of The S.H.I.T. Show) are directed by PianoFight’s AD Rob Ready and healthy ammounts of Jameson.

Full BOA 9 line-up

Although City Solo is not a PianoFight show (Off-Market is presenting this one) we really dig the producers Thao P. Nguyen and Nicole Maxali and the killer performers they line-up each month. Basically, City Solo is a culturally diverse collection of solo artists performing excerpts from their own full-length shows, and by diverse, we really do mean diverse. Last month performers ranged from Jawad Ali talking about his recent trip to Pakistan to help out after a pretty massive earthquake destroyed quite a bit, to comic Mary Van Note who deadpanned the following line every night: “So last night I came so hard I passed out.”

This month features another all new line-up consisting of Lambeth Sterling, David Allan Moss, Zahra Noorbakhsh and Erica Lutz who hit on themes ranging from atheism to dating to clowning to becoming a widow. Oddly enough, a few weeks ago, stand-up legend Dave Chappelle came to Off-Market to check it out (he and Nicole are buddies and Nicole’s opened for him a few times). Here’s how Mr. Chappelle described the show: “City Solo at Off-Market is like an adventure, it’s funny then heartfelt then funny again. I’ve never seen solo shows done like that before.” Crazy right? Dave Chappelle was hanging out in our theater – pic below:

To get tickets to City Solo, click here, and for a more detailed description of performers and their pieces click here. To tell us how much you love Dave Chappelle, please leave a comment below.

Chloe Veltman of SF Weekly and ArtsJounral.com chronicles how Rotten Veggies Night came to be here.

And Rotten Veggies making waves across the pond as the Guardian UK crushes on some PF Veggies here.