August Playhouse

Stories, Songs & Scenes for the late-summer of life…

August Playhouse is more than one voice. It’s a house with many wings — each lit by its own spotlight. Some hold raw confessions. Others, are rock musicals. Still others: quiet essays, ironic anthologies, or late-night experiments in the sandbox.

Here, stories unfold like acts in a play. Some are true. Some are fantasy. All are honest.

Click on the “Wings” button (above) — or one of our Little Side Stages (below) — and come play with us?

LITTLE SIDE STAGES:

WRITER'S ROOM: Peek behind the curtain at the writers -- as Lorenzo, Casey, Dr. Kat, Rickles, Lundy, and the freelance oddballs improvise scenes, chase ideas, and accidentally build universes at 3 a.m.

Coming Soon…

I'M NOT CHEAP WHISKEY ANYMORE: The rock-musical origin of Lorenzo Champion’s revival -- backstage chaos, lost love, a few miracles, and legendary Cheap Whiskey arc.

BACKYARD MYTHOS: Twilight Zone-meets-backyard tales of oddities, ironies, whispers, and unexplained beauty hiding in everyday life -- or possibly one's own imagination.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE: A political sci-fi satire where elections, billionaires, and social chaos collide in a darkly comic dimension just a step sideways from our own.

JESUS MOMENTS: Short, strange, sincere encounters where we hear something bigger than ourself -- sometimes wise, sometimes funny, always unexpected.

SIGNAL FIRES: The eerie anthology of spiritual sparks, uncanny moments, and reality glitches that lluminate our world when we least expect it.... This segment requires a "Viewer Advisory."

GAME NIGHT: Your favorite Airbnb hosts, a dungeon of questionable board games -- and a domino-chain of chaos that only Lorenzo’s crew could unleash.

BLEACHER CREEPERS: Weird, off-kilter sports tales from the nosebleeds to the sidelines—where spirits, glitches, and strange luck interfere with the games we love.

BRIGHT SPOTLIGHTS: Casey Bright & Lorenzo Champion showcase top-10 lists, music-nerd deep cuts, rock trivia riffs, and passionate breakdowns of artists and TV shows they love.

Content Advisory:
The creative works presented throughout this site are works of fiction.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to real events is
purely coincidental.
These projects are intended for adult audiences and may include mature themes, strong language, and/or dark humor.
Viewer discretion is advised.
© 2025 Loren A. Hirt / August Playhouse – All rights reserved.

Hey, kid…. Yeah, you — the one laughing too hard in your room with MAD Magazine, National Lampoon, and a stack of scratched vinyl spinning in the corner. You didn’t know it yet, but that laugh of yours was a compass. It pointed you through the grief, through the muck, through all the moments when grown-ups said, “Be serious now.”

This whole Playhouse? It’s for you. Every page, every Easter Egg, every weird twist that makes you laugh or spook yourself out. We don’t do laundry lists here. We do time capsules. Little gold nuggets that still make 12-year-old Larry crack up loud enough for the neighbors to worry. So welcome back, kid. You never left. You’re the pulse of this place.