Highways Performance Space & Gallery

05/08/2025

🖤✨ SWEET DECAY is COMING ✨🖤�
Sat, May 10 | 8:30 PM
Highways� Performance Space & Gallery
1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA

Obsidienne Obsurd presents a glam-futurist descent into gorgeous ruin. Think drag, sound, and poetry colliding at terminal velocity—turning collapse into couture. 💋💥

🎭 This isn’t performance—it’s prophecy. Gravity is your drag mother, and she’s pulling you under with lashes on and heels sharp enough to carve the end times in glitter. ✨

Obsidienne doesn’t flinch at the grotesque—they worship it.�With poetic invocations by the enigmatic S A M, and visuals that channel sci-fi elegy through high-glam decay, SWEET DECAY is where total collapse becomes high art.

🪞 You won’t escape the end—you’ll strut through it.�🖤 Ruin never looked so good. 🖤

🎟 TICKETS via link below. Don’t be late—decay waits for no one.

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Obsidienne Obsurd makes a glam-futurist descent into gorgeous decay—where drag, sound, and poetry collide in a spectacle that turns collapse into high art. In this seductive slow-motion apocalypse, the end isn’t feared—it’s fiercely, fabulously embraced.

05/07/2025

🖤✨ SWEET DECAY is COMING ✨🖤
Sat, May 10 | 8:30 PM | Highways

Obsidienne Obsurd presents a glam-futurist descent into gorgeous ruin. Think drag, sound, and poetry colliding at terminal velocity—turning collapse into couture. 💋💥

🎭 This isn’t performance—it’s prophecy. Gravity is your drag mother, and she’s pulling you under with lashes on and heels sharp enough to carve the end times in glitter. ✨

Obsidienne doesn’t flinch at the grotesque—they worship it.
With poetic invocations by the enigmatic S A M, and visuals that channel sci-fi elegy through high-glam decay, SWEET DECAY is where total collapse becomes high art.

🪞 You won’t escape the end—you’ll strut through it.
🖤 Ruin never looked so good. 🖤

🎟 TICKETS in bio. Don’t be late—decay waits for no one.



04/30/2025

🔥 THIS FRIDAY 🔥
EL CAMINO A CASA by MARYSAN
🗓️ May 2 | 8PM
📍 Highways, Santa Monica

💃🏽 Two Latine dancers.
🫀 One raw, intimate duet.
🧬 Family, identity, and the messy in-between of being “not enough” and “too much.”
🌈 Brown, q***r, and unapologetically real.
💥 This isn’t just dance—it’s a homecoming.

✨ Part of Highways’ annual a/o/x series (formerly Latinx New Works), celebrating boundary-pushing voices across cultures and identities.

🎟️ TIX: Link in bio



04/25/2025

🪦💻 TOUCH GRASS, SAVE CASH 💻🪦
For the next 24 hours, use code “TOUCHGRASS” at checkout to get 30% off tickets to LOSER —an incel elegy disguised as a tech support call from the void. Swipe to catch a glimpse of the chaos in a brief rehearsal clip.

⚠️ Note: Full-price ticket buyers get preferred access.
Because in this economy, even losers need to pay their dues.

🎟️ Tickets available via the link in bio.
Log off, show up, sit in the wreckage.

LOSER
A True West for the Twitch Age
May 4 – June 22, Sundays @ 7:30 PM
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Step into a room that feels like a fallout shelter for failed men.
📚 A dog-eared copy of 12 Rules for Life face-down in a dust-lined drawer
🎮 A cracked PS4 controller sticky with energy drink residue
🛏 A waifu pillow under a Nietzsche quote
📼 A cousin picking through the physical detritus of a suicide—not just tech and trash, but an entire ideology in collapse

Co-Written and Performed by Soren Royer-McHugh () + Directed by Highways’ Artistic Director, Patrick Kennelly (.kennelly), LOSER is part stand-up act, part grief ritual, and part scavenger hunt through the male psyche’s junk drawer.

No stage. No distance. You’re in it. 15 audience members per night.
Some are called “Winners.” Most are not.

Between performances, the set transforms into a public gallery—a place to explore the wreckage and maybe leave an offering of your own.

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USE CODE: “TOUCHGRASS”
🌱 30% off for 48 hours only
💸 Still a loser, but now you’re hydrated and saving
🚪 Limited capacity. No respawns.

04/24/2025

🔥 OPENING TOMORROW NIGHT @ HIGHWAYS 🔥
🖤 SAFE SANE CONSENSUAL 🖤
APRIL 25 & 26 | 7:30PM | 
🎟️ Link in bio

Desire. Death. Leather. Legacy.
In ‘90s San Francisco, a B**M scene goes wrong—fracturing a q***r leather family and sending one butch deep into memory and loss.

💥 A raw, time-bending play about kink, grief, class, and the complexities of q***r love.
The rules were clear. The aftermath wasn’t.

✍️ By Bayla Travis | 🎭 Directed by Carly DW Bones | ✨ Produced by Gina Young
🌈 Starring Lindsay Coryne, Lillie Silva-Muir & a fearless q***r ensemble

04/23/2025

🔥 THIS WEEK @ HIGHWAYS 🔥
🖤 SAFE SANE CONSENSUAL 🖤
APRIL 25–27 | 7:30PM | 
🎟️ Link in bio

Desire. Death. Leather. Legacy.
A single moment in a dungeon tears a q***r world apart.
In 1990s San Francisco—where kink was liberation and leather was family—Len and Amanda lived, loved, and played on the edge. Until the night everything slipped.

💥 In this raw, time-bending new play, a working-class butch spirals into grief and memory after the tragic death of her privileged femme lover during B**M play gone wrong.
As Len confronts her past—abuse, class, power, and love—the community around her begins to unravel.
What happens when the rules of kink can’t protect you from the weight of your own trauma?

🎭 SAFE SANE CONSENSUAL is not a cautionary tale.
It’s an exorcism of shame, a requiem for lost leather d***s, and a tribute to the women who shaped q***r kink culture in the shadows.

👁️‍🗨️ NEW WORKSHOP STAGED READING
Talkback with the playwright follows each performance. Your presence is part of the process.

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✍️ Written by: Bayla Travis – former On Our Backs editor, Southern-born q***r playwright of desire, trauma, and taboo.
🎭 Directed by: Carly DW Bones – intimacy director, theatre witch, trauma-informed truth-seeker.
✨ Produced by: Gina Young – founder of SORORITY, award-winning playwright and q***r culture vanguard.

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🌈 CAST
💥 Lindsay Coryne – OITNB alum, national drag king champ
💥 Lillie Silva-Muir – femme force, Sana Sana Productions co-founder
💥 Jordan Villegas, Ace Taylor, Zoe Yale – bold, brilliant, q***r-as-hell ensemble

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⚠️ Content Warning: B**M/kink, accidental death, trauma, mental illness, self-harm, suicidal ideation, forced feminization.
Recommended for brave hearts 18+.

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04/10/2025

LOSER opens May 4th. You can buy tickets now via the link in our bio. Photos by

04/08/2025

Two Voices in Motion: Steph Dai & Sophia Oddi
🗓️ Friday + Saturday, April 11 & 12 @ 8PM
📍Highways Performance Space & Gallery, Santa Monica

Experience two distinct choreographic works that explore the body as a site of conflict, memory, and transformation.

🌀 Steph Dai navigates control, vulnerability, and internal pressure with precision and intensity.
🫀 Sophia Oddi investigates the shifting dynamics of femininity and form through deeply personal, visceral movement.

Presented together, these works offer a compelling conversation in motion—intimate, sharp, and resonant.

🎟️ Tickets available via link in bio.



03/28/2025

📣 REMINDER — 1 WEEK LEFT!
Calling all SoCal rule-breakers, scene-shakers, and art-makers:

Highways’ July–Dec 2025 season is almost FULL.
But we’ve saved space for the brave, the weird, the necessary — is that you?

🖤 Performance. Dance. Film. Music. Visual Art.
🖤 Full-throttle or stripped-down. Solo or collective.
🖤 No genre? No problem.

🧨 Deadline: APRIL 4, 2025

Smash that link in bio or drop your vision straight to [email protected]:
↳ Project pitch
↳ Bios
↳ Dream dates
↳ Media (photos/vids/links)

📍No forms, no fluff — just bring the fire.

Tag your collaborators. Repost. Let’s light up the second half of 2025.



03/23/2025

🚨 OPEN CALL — for the bold, the unruly, the uncategorizable.�

Highways is hunting for SoCal-based disruptors in performance / dance / music / visual art / film who are ready to carve up our July-December 2025 calendar with something unforgettable.

🖤 Raw rituals, polished chaos, full-length odysseys, bite-sized explosions. Gallery takeovers welcome.

💣 Deadline : APRIL 4, 2025
Smash that link in bio or send your full vision — project pitch, bios, dream dates, links, photos/videos — straight to [email protected]. No half-steps.

🔥 Swipe left for a taste of 2025 at Highways so far — this is your moment to break through the noise.

📢 Please share with your communities + repost — let’s spread the word and uplift the wild ones.

03/22/2025

03/21/2025

🚨 OPEN CALL — for the bold, the unruly, the uncategorizable.
Highways is hunting for SoCal-based disruptors in performance / dance / music / visual art / film who are ready to carve up our Jan–June 2025 calendar with something unforgettable.

🖤 Raw rituals, polished chaos, full-length odysseys, bite-sized explosions. Gallery takeovers welcome.

💣 Deadline : AUGUST 4, 20245
Smash that link in bio or send your full vision — project pitch, bios, dream dates, links, photos/videos — straight to [email protected]. No half-steps.

🔥 Swipe left for a taste of 2025 at Highways so far — this is your moment to break through the noise.

📢 Please share with your communities + repost — let’s spread the word and uplift the wild ones.