[NoHo Arts District, CA] – A staged reading of The Point of Pinecones, a different kind of sex comedy by Dennis Hensley, will play three performances only at the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Set in a Los Angeles condo complex where pinecones fall like they’re out to get you,
About The Point of Pinecones
Auggie July is 60 and has never quite figured out success, sex, or how he ended up here. As financial pressures mount, two wildly different men upend his world — a sexually free younger neighbor and a ridiculously successful old rival. In a condo complex where pinecones fall like fate, Auggie confronts desire, regret, and the possibility that maybe it’s not too late to go after what he wants. Bold, funny, and disarmingly honest,
The Point of Pinecones is a late-in-life coming-of-age story about desire, shame, and the courage to keep aspiring.
Running time is 120 minutes with one intermission.
The Cast
Directed by Hensley, the cast features Felix Pire, Sebastian Dino, Jaimie Fauth, Nadya Ginsburg, Barbara Deutsch, and Dulce Valencia.
About Dennis Hensley
Dennis Hensley is the host of the Dennis Anyone? podcast and its Patreon/Substack spin-off, Dennis Hensley’s Happy & Gay. As a writer, he has worked in podcasts (Wondery’s Imagined Life and Even the Rich), television (Fashion Police, The Big Gay Sketch Show), movies (Testosterone, If We Took a Holiday), and novels (Misadventures in the 213, Screening Party). He can be seen dancing in commercials for Walmart and the City of Las Vegas. He is also the co-creator of the party games Search Party and You Don’t Know My Life!, which is based on the offbeat questions he developed when profiling celebrities for magazines like Movieline, Detour, and The Advocate. He is also the creator and host of The MisMatch Game, which was first presented in 2004 at the Renberg Theatre and has since raised over $250,000 for the Los Angeles LGBT Center. The Point of Pinecones is his first play.
About the Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.