LA-based standup comic, actor, and writer, River Butcher returns to Amphibian Stage for the 3rd time!

Emmy Award-winning comedian Sara Schaefer comes to Amphibian Stage!

Comedian Gabe Mollica is developing a stand-up set that straddles the line of theatre and comedy.

Shakespeare’s compelling tragedy of boundary-defying love, thwarted by oppressive social barriers and meddling outside forces, is brought startlingly up to date by a stellar cast, including Giles Terera (Hamilton).

A  thunderous new imagining of Arthur Miller’s parable of power and its abuse, with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma) as John Proctor and Abigail Williams.

The annual performing arts festival SparkFest returns to the Near Southside for the third time, featuring the development and showcasing of new plays, other engaging events, and new this year – an acting competition with cash prizes!

2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson returns to Amphibian Stage after a sold-out residency in 2019.

Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut in this 21stcentury retelling of Chekhov’stale exploring love and loneliness.

Grace & Frankie star Baron Vaughn returns to Amphibian Stage in 2023 for the third time since creating the residency series back in 2017.

Molly’s Mission: Reach Mars. Molly’s Obstacle: Losing herself on the way.

The wealthy Claire has returned to save her hometown from financial ruin – under one deadly condition.

Childhood Best Friends Matthias and Aloysius must pass the ultimate test to procure a wife: A mother’s intuition

Father and Daughter: 1 passport, 30 years, and 6,000 miles apart.

Our sold-out season extra returns this December for one night only!

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes a critically acclaimed West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning, one-women, play.

Writing funny is hard. Like, really really hard. If you also need help in this area then join us for an industry panel only at Amphibian Stage.

If you love The Moth’s or Oral Fixation’s storytelling events, this is for you!

This workshop will help unique voices find the tools, structure, and levity they need to bring their story to life. We all have a story to tell, let’s help you find yours.

Final Showcase for Fun with Comedy workshops.

Do you love belting out your favorite songs? This workshop, designed for ages 9 to 13, is improv with a musical twist, and it’s less about rhyming and more about emotions. If music makes you feel something, come play with us.

This workshop, designed for ages 9 to 13, focuses on improvisation – a style of comedy that’s all made up on the spot. It’s basically pretending, and we’ll play a bunch of fun games that make it seem easy.

This workshop, designed for ages 9 to 13, kids will learn how to write original comedic songs in your favorite musical style. No musical background? No problem, as long as you love listening to music.

This workshop, designed for ages 9 to 13, is all about creating funny characters that can be used in sketch, standup, plays, or on TikTok. Guided exercises will help you write fictional monologues, which you’ll get to try out in a supportive environment.

Do you love belting out your favorite songs? This is improv with a musical twist, and it’s less about rhyming and more about emotions. If music makes you feel something, come play with us.

Ever wonder why certain actors get cast? Curious about what the audition process is like or what directors are looking for? This is an opportunity for audiences to see first-hand how auditions and casting directors work!

Finally debuting after 2 years of anticipation, it’sSets on Sets-the show where some of the funniest local comedians perform their stand-up sets in front of different theatrical backdrops!

A play is a living, shifting, proximate narrative event, and therefore requires a unique skill set of its author: the ability to bring stories to life in real time …and keep them alive. This course seeks to name, explore and exploit the three primary tools for making a story that is forever “quickening”:Motion, Status, and Time. A lively and fundamental class for both the experienced writer and the novice.

Ashley Ray is the most famous bisexual solo polyamorous black queer comedian, actor, and writer currently based in Los Angeles. In 2021, she was featured in Bust for her “whip smart TV criticism.” And yes, she’s also famous for smoking pot.

Six influencers make up 3 teams that compete to create the best gown or costume with limited time and the unusual items we find lying around our theatre.It’s fun. It’s fast. It’s always a surprise what they come up with.

Filipino American, Andrew Orolfo has been named one of the country’s “top knot” comedians by… don’t even ask, just go with it. An established staple in San Francisco comedy, he has been featured in SF Sketchfest, High Plains Comedy Festival and Comedy Central Clusterfest. He can be heard on Sirius XM Radio and seen on Comedy Central, The Late Late Show with James Corden as well as Jo Koy: In His Elements on Netflix.

When Dr. Roark gets a request from one of her students to go over his essay after class, she readies herself for the usual one-on-one writing tutoring that she’s excelled at her entire career. But when they meet in her office, she finds that he’s there for very different reasons and she’s thrown into a political battle that threatens to ruin her career entirely.

Charles Jackson Jr.’s Elusive is an experimental dramatic fantasy about the effect that having an absent mother has on a child.

It’s summertime in 1980s southern Louisiana when a group of ardent camp counselors discover alternate dimensions within the campground’s forest. This play uses science fiction and New Orleans-based Black history to explore emerging into adulthood, enjoying romance amidst a crushing loss, and how sorrow can take root into terrains as well as hearts. How can we keep sight of what we owe each other?

Two writers arrive at a darkened theatre to receive an undisclosed award. What they receive instead is a play “ghosted” by a host of other famous works. They encounter a steep fall – both comic and macabre – into their deepest creative fears.

When Juan Garcia returns home to Oaxaca after years at the university in Mexico City, he’s ready to make an impression and take over as the fanciest, smartest, richest man in town….never mind that he’s none of those things.

Kenny DeForest is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Stand-up, HBO’s “Crashing”, TruTV’s “Friends of the People”, and as a former producer and co-host of “Comedy at the Knitting Factory”, widely considered to be one of the best independently run comedy shows in the world.

Meet gossip columnists, Mr. and Mrs. Fitch. When the social circuit no longer provides juicy morsels, when the pressure to create news in our never-ending news cycle becomes just a bit much, it’s time to toss back the martinis, toss around the bon mots and realize that great celebrity can just appear out of thin air.

This wicked, urbane comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out, and who may not even exist at all.

Franz Kafka’s undiscovered masterpiece in its Broadway premiere is the hilarious and apropos setting for Theresa Rebeck’s exploration of the existential vagaries of show business and life.

Linda and Michael Waterman are both successful fiction writers, happily married to one another. They thrive on the give and take of their unusually honest and candid relationship. However, when Linda is diagnosed with a tumor, she asks her husband to share his diaries with her.

“Nobody does something for nothing,” declares Maxine (Georgia Clinton), a bitter, delusional old woman nearing the end of her life in a respectable if impersonal eldercare facility.

Just one simple bank job. How hard can it be?

For two brothers new to the armed robbery industry, it turns out it’s a lot more difficult than it appears in the movies. When plans A and B (and C through F) fail, Tracey and Russell, find themselves locked in the bank bathroom with no choice but to depend on a brave bank teller, an unsuspecting cop, and the man who put them up to the whole thing.

To be content with yourself, you must be able to own up to each and every adventure that you take. Brooke Berman tells the stories of four intertwined 20 and 30-year-old somethings as they try to not only find the perfect real estate in New York City but also the perfect relationship.

A father weaves a magical tale for his daughter to justify his unlicensed plastic surgery practice, tracing the origins of cosmetic surgery to craftsmen in medieval Europe.

Becky Mode’s fast, funny, uplifting one-man show at Amphibian Stage Productions, gives us the overworked, under-compensated Sam (Russell Saylor), a reservations manager and aspiring actor at a busy, upscale New York restaurant, who wants to go home for Christmas but is rebuffed by the spoiled, pampered chef who is his boss.

Joe is patriotic, independent, and proud in his flannel shirt and dirt-smudged work boots in Mercy Killers, Michael Milligan’s one-man show.

Alonso Quixano’s fascination with medieval romance novels devolves into delusion when the small-town man rechristens himself Don Quixote de la Mancha -a chivalrous knight bent on battling wicked and protecting all who are good.

Just weeks before he will take his own life, legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud invites the young, rising Oxford Don C.S. Lewis to his home in London.

In a small Russian village, the presence of wicked goblins keeps the town from celebrating Hanukkah, until one man, Hershel of Ostropol, takes it upon himself to evict the mischievous residents from the haunted synagogue at the top of the hill.

For Isaac Newton, the line between reality and hypothesis has never been clear. When a rival puts his scientific ideas to the test, Newton’s fierce ambition to win an argument may jeopardize his entire life’s work.

Backstage at the greatest puppet show in the world solo, Geppetto faces many challenges as he rehearses the legendary love story of Perseus and Andromeda.

Broadway veteran Karen Murphy stars in this buoyant and witty solo piece that the New York Times calls “a delectable soufflé of a show”.

When a relaxing afternoon walk turns into a wacky international crisis, lovebirds Arthur and Olivia have no choice but to play by the absurd rules.

People say that there is someone for everyone, but when fate sends a letter to every person on Earth revealing their one true love, Meg is left alone without a match.

Trapped underground after a deadly collapse, a miner finds his salvation in the arrival of a young and inexperienced first responder. While they wait for additional rescue assistance, they discover they have more in common than they realize.

An intimate portrait of mortality, memory, and redemption, this original play will have its regional premiere at Amphibian Stage Productions.

Written by award-winning Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, it has been called a play, but it’s a lively, global sensation that no one is allowed to talk about.

In the hilarious new comedy by the author of Crossing the Line, Tom and Clem find themselves knee-deep in financial struggles.

An irreverent roller-coaster ride through the Good Book, from fig leaves to final judgment, three cultural guerrillas tackle the great theological questions. No one is safe, especially the first row, and everything you thought you knew about the most widely read book in history will be turned upside down.

His artistic career is in ruins, and Leonardo da Vinci is renouncing his fickle Muse for good. Taking a “vow of utility,” he turns to scientific exploration and accepts an appointment with Cesare Borgia, the powerful and ruthless leader.

Who wins the battle of beauty versus brains?

Cyrano is a swordsman, philosopher, poet, and raconteur—everything that the love of his life, Roxane, would want. There’s just one problem: his nose is colossal, which makes him unworthy of her affection (or so he believes).

Sports agent Liz Rico is at the top of her game, but a woman in a man’s industry has to fight to stay there.

An artist is murdered, leaving his two friends suspecting each other. There is one thing that unites them all: their infatuation with Sophie.

A wry comedy about two unlikely friends traversing uncertain times by Steven Dietz.

Set in a small map store on the oldest street in an American city, Lonely Planet is an intimate portrait of two friends navigating loss and an uncertain world.

Can one meal change your life?

The culinary brilliance of a French fugitive satisfies more than suppressed appetites in a pious Norwegian village.

This is not the story of Gutenberg. This is the story of Bud and Doug.

Gutenberg! The Musical! is going to propel these two into the canon of great American musical writing teams.

Despite being taken prisoner of war, then ransomed off by her father to the feckless king of a foreign country, Margaret of Anjou went on to command armies. William Shakespeare was so entranced with her that he included her in four of his plays.

Chris Laker is a New York City-based stand-up who just made his television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

A printing press, spray paint, and quick wit were all siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl needed to build the largest underground resistance movement in Nazi Germany.

The True History of the Tragic Life & Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World

Amphibian Stage is bringing last year’s Parking Lot Comedy Festival back with a brand new lineup featuring DFW’s funniest comics with two nights of socially distanced, outdoor, stand-up comedy shows.

Heads will roll!

James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London.

Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war.

Fashionably late to the revolution.

Set twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.

River Butcher is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcast host. Butcher is best known for personal, observational comedy focused on their vegetarianism, feminism, love of baseball, and experiences as a queer person.

Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers—one a King, one his courtier—reject the children who truly love them.

At the outbreak of World War One, Albert’s beloved horse, Joey, is sold to the Cavalry and shipped to France. Though still not old enough to enlist he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.

Alana Johnston and Mo Welch bring art, music, and comedy together into a night of fun nonsense.

An insightful, hilarious and touching one-woman performance not to be missed by anyone who is concerned about the state of our education system and how we might fix it.

When Rachel and Callie start clinical trials on their new female libido enhancement drug, willing participants come out of the woodwork looking for an internal revolution. Quickly after the first dose, the effectiveness of the medicine is undeniable, but the overwhelming pressure for its success may corrupt the experiment and everyone involved.