FronteraFest 2025 Short Fringe: Best of Fest Bill B! Shows chosen from earlier in the festival as those our Best of Week panel and audiences would most like to see again. Listed in performance order. NOTE: THIS SAME BILL ALSO PLAYS ON SATURDAY, FEB. 15 The Heart of Things, by Andy Tate (Scriptworks Commission). Zach and Adam are sorting through their belongings as they prepare to leave their apartment for a fresh start. While packing up, they begin unpacking their three-year relationship. Now every object is a treasured memory to unearth, or a hard truth to expose, and neither of them is in the mood to stop digging. Featuring Joseph Paz and Kirk Scarbrough. Directed by Jason Sierra. GRAVEYARD SHIFT, by Sally Seitz. During the graveyard shift at Whataburger, Skylar and Kim summon an impossible visitor. I WILL NOW INDUCE CRYING, written and performed by Zac Carr. A solo show: part theatre, part sketch, part other stuff. A might-see performance. I WILL NOW INDUCE CRYING will change the way audiences think about how they spent their night out. Ma Heart, by Jack Darling. This is a story about how creative love can transform terror into wonder. When force and pain threaten to break a child's spirit, a grandmother's patient wisdom finds unexpected ways to keep their heart whole. It's about the small acts of imaginative kindness that help us survive—and how sometimes the most profound healing comes not through power, but through play.  The Knuckleball Now, by four comedic improvisors. Est. 2004, this particular unit of award-winning comedic improvisors take random audience-read text messages, which are then spun and weaved into an unscripted collection of high energy scenes, themes & characters. Lights down, people clap.