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# No Shame theater returns to Powerhouse with 15 new scripts each Friday at 11 p.m.
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/no-shame-here/
- Published: 2007-09-13T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:51:32.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

At the Powerhouse Theatre, 15 brand new scripts jump from page to stage each and every Friday night at 11 p.m. starting this week. With less than an hour to go before show time, writers are jammed together with actors and directors to create wholly original works of comedy, drama, music, movement and/or furry hand puppet sex slaves — none of which last more than five minutes. It's high energy/high risk theater.

Since starting in the back of a pickup truck in Iowa in 1986, No Shame has launched the careers of many actors, including John Leguizamo, Camryn Manheim, D. B. Woodside and Toby Huss. The award-winning event has spread to more than a dozen cities, been the subject of Ph.D. theses, graced the cover of national magazines and spawned several major plays.

Admission is $5 and includes one drink. For reservations, call 310-396-3680 ext. 10 or e-mail brian@noshamela.org. For more information visit www.noshamela.org.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 13, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)