Archive for July, 2008

‘Four Rooms Waking’

Four Rooms Waking
Studio Theatre
Remaining performances:
Thursday, July 24 @ 6:00 PM; Saturday, July 26 @ 9:00 PM; Sunday, July 27 @ 6:00 PM
They say: A one-of-a-kind theatrical experience, Four Rooms Waking captures one gripping day in the lives of four sets of unique characters. By turns haunted and hilarious, they will lead you from Algiers to [...]

Hip-Shot: “Bee Man”

Bee Man
Cole Studio
Remaining Performances:
Sunday, July 20 @4pm
Thursday, July 24 @9pm
Friday, July 25 @9pm
Sunday, July 27 @2pm
They say: “Our food supply depends on bees. In this one-man play, Lorenzo Langstroth – scientist, minister, author, abolitionist, raconteur and manic-depressive – shares his experience of 19th-century life, his observations and love of bees, and insights into the natural [...]

‘Busted Jesus Comix’

Busted Jesus Comix
Flashpoint
Remaining Performances:
Sunday, July 20 @ Noon; Wednesday, July 23 @ 6:30 PM
Saturday, July 26 @ 8:00 PM; Sunday, July 27 @ 4:30 PM
They say: “At nineteen, Marco’s been convicted of obscenity . . . for publishing his homemade comic book. Starting fresh in New York, a chance meeting will expose his past and [...]

‘B-Digga Presents’

B-Digga Presents
The Baldacchino
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 5 PM
Saturday, July 26 @ 6:30 PM
Sunday, July 27 @ 5 PM
They Say: “A multimedia extravaganza! B-Digga’s groundbreaking music with live performance and vocals by some of D.C.’s finest artists, with accompanying video and computer generated imagery. The music will be progressive hip-hop, soul and acid jazz-material [...]

Hip-Shot: ‘Slave Narratives Revisited’

Slave Narratives Revisited
a celebration of freedom
Studio Theatre
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 7 PM
Sunday, July 20 @ Noon
Sunday, July 27 @ 4 PM
They say: “Multiple award winning author Ed Shockley follows the success of 2007′s world premiere of The Oracle with the D.C. premiere of a new touring show. Modechai Vanunu, Nat Turner, Nelson Mandela, [...]

‘Poe & All That Jazz’

Poe & All That Jazz
Harman Center – The Forum
Remaining performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ Noon; Sunday, July 20 @ 8 PM
They say: “Helen Hayes Award-winning playwright Peter Coy explores undercurrents of abandonment in Poe’s tragic personal life, thinly veiled in art. Horrifying and humorous, ‘a delicious, confusing, delicate, sensual delight’; jazz, ghosts, poetry and song. [...]

‘Champagne Sundays’

Champagne Sundays
Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab – 916 G Street, NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 12:00 PM
Saturday, July 19 @ 9:00 PM
Sunday, July 20 @ 4:30 PM
They say: “Roy and Mary Jane, freshly retired to Florida, become best old friends with Byron and Buddy in a “dramedy” that juxtaposes the present, the past, and the [...]

‘Children of Medea’

Children of Medea
Studio Theatre – Stage 4
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 5:00 pm
Sunday, July 20 @ 2:00 pm
Wednesday, July 23 @ 9:00 pm
Saturday, July 26 @ Noon

She says: “A story about immigration, alienation, language and meaning, different ways of killing and dying, donuts and ants. Four years after being abandoned by their mother, two Korean-American [...]

‘How I Got Rich in a Year…’

How I got Rich in a Year, Using That Secret
Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab
Remaining performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 4:30 PM; Sunday, July 20 @ 7 PM; Thursday, July 24 @ 7:30 PM
They say: ”Last year, writer/performer Laura Zam wowed audiences with a sold-out show the Washington Post called ‘Smart’…’Funny’…and ‘Beautiful.’ This year, Zam is back with [...]

Hip-Shot: ‘Born Normal’

Born Normal
The Source
Remaining performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 6 PM
Sunday, July 20 @ 1 PM
Saturday, July 26 @ 5 PM
Sunday, July 27 6:30 PM
They say: “Her mother has wings; her sister can raise the dead; and her brother is growing increasingly bizarre in his own way. How can Jane keep her family together when she’s not [...]