[NoHo Arts District, CA] – Fringe Management LLC presents the U.S. premiere of The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due To the End of the World), written, directed and performed by Danilo Napoli, co-directed by Antonietta Barcellona at the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
The show has been cancelled. The world has ended. But one actor still shows up.
About The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due To the End of the World)
In a near future devastated by climate collapse, an actor steps on stage to announce that the performance is cancelled… and slowly begins to tell his story. Cities submerged, people divided between those who live underwater (the fucking rich people) and those left on the surface (us, the poor), a theatre company falling apart one death at a time, and a Christian radio which doesn’t stop to tell useless prayers.
The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due To the End of the World) is a darkly comedic and deeply human solo performance about art, survival, and resistance in a dying world. With only words, imagination and a single performer, the audience is taken on a journey that is at once intimate, absurd, tragic and unsettlingly familiar, with a love letter to theatre at the end of everything. Because, so long as there’s someone willing to listen, all is not really lost
Running time: 60 minutes
The Team
DANILO NAPOLI is an Italian actor, playwright, and director. Born in Salerno, he trained extensively in corporeal mime, screen acting, voice, and dramaturgy. As a playwright and performer, he is the author and lead actor of several pieces including the award-winning plays White Noise (The Pick of the Off Fringe (Edinburgh), the Best Show Award at PanTeatro Festival (Italy), the Origins Prize at Fringe Catania Off 2025) and The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due to the End of the World) (Il Mondo Che si Muove Award 2025, Spirit Of The Fringe 2025). On screen, Danilo has starred in award-winning short films recognized at international festivals in France (nomination as Best Actor), the USA, and Italy (multiple winner of the Best Actor award), and has worked as a voice actor for Netflix productions, including Rustin, Pain Hustlers, and Rebel Moon.
ANTONIETTA BARCELLONA is an Italian actress, playwright, and director with over 25 years of experience across theatre, musical theatre, and performance education. Based in the Campania region, she founded the Compagnia Rosso e Nero, through which she has written, directed, and performed in a wide body of original work, including collaborations with Danilo Napoli that have earned awards for Best Script and Best Show at Italian theatre festivals. She also worked as an assistant director in some of Danilo Napoli’s international shows: White Noise and The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due To the End of the World). Her practice spans comedy, social drama, and musical theatre, with a particular commitment to theatre as a tool for civic engagement.
MICHAEL BLAHA (Producer, Fringe Management) has produced over 150 shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as partners with Nigel Miles-Thomas in Fringe Management. In London, Mike produced the worldwide comedy sensation The Pajama Men (Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez) (The Times Double Act of the Year) in Versus vs. Versus and Last Stand to Reason, both of which were sold-out runs at the Soho Theater in London. Mike has also produced over 25 shows at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, including Richard Parker (Best International Production) and Afghanistan is Not Funny (Best International Production). His other U.S. stage credits include Latina Christmas Special and Bard Overboard at the Soho Playhouse Off Broadway, and runt (L.A., Chicago, Minneapolis, New York). Mike’s production of Bukowsical won the Best Musical Award at the New York Fringe. Expanding their global reach to include the second largest Fringe Festival in the world after Edinburgh, Fringe Management’s production of Blood of the Lamb won the overall Critic’s Prize for Best Show at the Adelaide Fringe in 2024.
LEE COSTELLO (Production Supervisor) has been producing theatre in Los Angeles for two decades. Her many credits include Nia Vardalos’s original one-woman version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Dan Castellaneta’s Where Did Vincent van Gogh? Other productions include Ensemble Studio Theatre LA’s One-Act Play Festival, Scream the Musical, For Piano and Harpo, and Old Man in a Big Car with Paul Dooley. While Executive Director for The Second City Los Angeles, she produced Totally Looped, Opening Night: The Musical, and The Second City Alumni Jam.