Charleston's Absent Friends

Charleston's Absent Friends The official page for Charleston's premiere shadow cast experience and entertainment troupe! Don’t dream it, BE IT! 🌈

CAF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission of creating safe spaces around The Lowcountry through art!

06/07/2026

📻 ATTENTION, SISTERS OF THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY SOCIETY FOR THE SISTERS OF GERTRUDE STEIN! 📻

Now that our glorious run of 5 Le****ns Eating a Quiche and our Pride Rocky Horror Picture Show has come to an end, the widows have finally finished tidying up the hall, folding the tablecloths, and scraping the last bits of quiche from the serving trays.

During cleanup, however, Sister Ginny discovered a most peculiar contraption hidden behind a stack of emergency canned goods. After several heated committee meetings and one minor electrocution, we have determined it to be a communication device from the far-flung future year of 2026!

Using this mysterious machine, we wish to send our heartfelt thanks to every sister, widow, and quiche enthusiast who joined us for these performances. Your laughter, applause, enthusiasm, and unwavering devotion to pastry-based fellowship made these productions truly unforgettable.

We are endlessly grateful for your support of Charleston’s Absent Friends and the q***r arts community. Whether you attended one show or many, cheered for the widows, tossed toast at Rocky, or simply shared our posts with friends, you helped make this season extraordinary.

Until our next gathering, keep your crusts flaky, your coffee hot, and your emergency preparedness kits fully stocked.

We hope you’ll join us at the next quiche breakfast. After all, what could possibly go wrong?

💛🥧💛

Yours in sisterhood, vigilance, and baked egg products,
The Widows
Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein 🥧✨

Check out our favorite quiche sponsor ever, Three Girls On Spring! 💚
06/06/2026

Check out our favorite quiche sponsor ever, Three Girls On Spring! 💚

Somehow out of a tiny little kitchen on Spring Street comes towering sandwiches, bubbling lasagna, fresh desserts, and enough comfort food to make the whole block smell incredible. ✨

Three Girls on Spring is open Thursday through Sunday, 11–3, and today’s menu is stacked with good things.

Today’s specials:
🥪 Triple Decker Turkey Club with crispy bacon
🥪 Classic Reuben
🔥 Bang-Bang Grilled Cheese
🍝 Gluten-Free Lasagna
🥬 Porchetta with Broccoli Rabe

Plus our full hot menu all day long.

And for something sweet:
🫐 Blueberry Cheese Danish
🍌 Banana Cake
☕ Tiramisu

Downtown Charleston has a lot going on this weekend, so if you’re wandering Spring Street, hungry for lunch, craving comfort food, or just need a really good piece of cake and a moment to breathe, come find us. 🤍

📍 Three Girls on Spring
121 Spring Street, Downtown Charleston

⏰ Thursday–Sunday • 11–3

✨ Order online at threegirlsonspring.com
✨ Uber Eats & DoorDash available

06/05/2026

Pride vendor for tonight is none other than Knotty By Moonlight!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🌈✨ ICONS: A Pride Drag Spectacular ✨🌈Join Charleston's Absent Friends for an evening of drag, Pride, and celebration as ...
06/05/2026

🌈✨ ICONS: A Pride Drag Spectacular ✨🌈

Join Charleston's Absent Friends for an evening of drag, Pride, and celebration as our performers pay tribute to the LGBTQ+ icons, trailblazers, legends, and allies who helped shape our community and change the world.

From music and film to activism and pop culture, expect unforgettable performances, fabulous looks, and a whole lot of q***r joy.

This is a **tip-based event**, so come enjoy the show, support your favorite performers, and help us continue our mission of making q***r art accessible to everyone. All tips and donations support Charleston's Absent Friends, a nonprofit dedicated to creating inclusive q***r arts programming in the Lowcountry.

📅 Friday, June 26
⏰ 7:00 PM
📍 Sweatman’s Garden

Come celebrate the icons who paved the way, support local q***r artists, and spend an evening surrounded by community, creativity, and Pride. 🌈💜



Icons: A Pride Drag Spectacular

06/04/2026

🎉🥧 FIVE SOLD OUT AUDIENCES! 🥧🎉

What started as a little gathering of widows… we mean le****ns… has turned into something truly incredible.

Because of YOUR support, Charleston’s Absent Friends has sold out FIVE performances of 5 Le****ns Eating a Quiche! We are overwhelmed by the love, laughter, and enthusiasm you’ve shown this wonderfully ridiculous show.

And because so many people have asked for one last chance to join the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein, we’ve opened up 10 additional tickets for tonight’s FINAL performance!

This is it. Your last opportunity to see 5 Le****ns Eating a Quiche before the oven cools, the quiche disappears, and our widows (seriously, they’re le****ns) return to their regularly scheduled lives.

If you’ve been thinking about coming, don’t wait. These extra seats are expected to go quickly, and we’d hate for you to miss the funniest, weirdest, most heartfelt quiche-related emergency Charleston has seen in 1956.

To everyone who has attended, shared a post, brought a friend, laughed with us, cried with us, or simply supported local theatre: thank you. Every member of this cast and crew has felt your love, and we are so grateful to this amazing community.

Now grab one of those final tickets and help us send these le****ns out in style. ❤️🥧

****nsEatingAQuiche Park Circle Pride

Two days!!! Get those tickets! 😍😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
06/03/2026

Two days!!! Get those tickets! 😍😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Pride month, y'all!
This is one of 's biggest shows of the year and tickets are going fast. Get yours now at the box office or terracetheater.com

🏳️‍🌈

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Charleston, SC
29412

Website

https://www.charlestonsabsentfriends.org/

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