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Hip Shot: An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein

Studio Theatre – Mead Theatre, 1501 14th Street NW
Remaining Performances: 
Saturday, July 16th, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 20th, 10 p.m.
Saturday, July 22nd, 6 p.m.
They say: “Please leave the kids at home! The beloved children’s author shows a different side in these twisted, darkly comic exposes of our human frailties that will make you laugh, even as they [...]

Hip Shot: Sanyasi

Spooky Universe Theater: Universalist National Memorial Church, 1810 16th St NW
Remaining Performances:
Thursday, July 14th at 8:15 p.m.
Saturday, July 16th at 11 p.m.
Sunday July 17th at 2 p.m.
Saturday July 23rd at 6:30 p.m.
They say: “Sanyasi 2011 is play written in 1917 by Ranbindranath Tagore and performed by our company today. With original composition and ensemble [...]

Hip Shot: Pascal’s Aquarium

Mountain – at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church,
900 Massachusetts Ave NW

Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 15th, 10:30 pm
Sunday, July 17th, 7:15 pm
Sunday, July 24th, 2:00 pm
They say: “Witness the miraculous transformation of a purply-blue fuzzy lobster! Augustine must learn about life before transcending his environment. Experience a 12 puppet musical in an upscale restaurant fish tank. Submerge [...]

Hip Shot: Captain Freedom

Fort Fringe – Redrum, 610 L Street NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 12th, 7 p.m.
Thursday, July 14th, 8 p.m.
Friday, July 22nd, 10:45 p.m.
They say: “Captain Freedom has saved the world countless time and looked fantastic doing it, but not even a superhero is recession-proof. A super-heroic comedy from Landless Theatre (Diamond Dead, Carrie Potter) and humorist G. [...]

Hip Shot: Shall I Compare Thee to a Purple Haze? The Lost Rock Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Fort Fringe – The Bedroom, 610 L Street NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 12th, 9:45 pm
Friday, July 15th, 8 pm
Saturday, July 16th, 6 pm
They say:They’ve been broken up for nearly 500 years [sic], but William Shakespeare is getting the band back together and releasing the most ambitious concept album since Hamlet, proving that high culture once was [...]

Hip Shot: The VindleVoss Family Circus Spectacular!

The Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, 607 New York Avenue NW
Remaining Performances:
Sunday, July 10th, 6 pm
Tuesday, July 12th, 6 pm
Thursday, July 14th, 9 pm
Saturday, July 16th, 8 pm
They say: Professor VindleVoss and her adopted son Edvard the Zombie invite you to the rebirth of their once towering family circus! With only a few dusty artifacts and their quick wits, [...]

Hip Shot: ‘The Tea Party Project’

The Tea Party Project
Redrum – at Fort Fringe
Remaining performance:
Sunday, July 25 at 5 p.m.
They say: Steeped in tea party hysteria? Try sipping facts. THE TEA PARTY PROJECT exposes the truth behind the tricorn hats – the funny, the bizarre, and the downright horrifying.
Aaron’s take: I’ll say right off the bat that most of the audience [...]

Hip Shot: ‘Horrible Child’

Adult themes notwithstanding, this lighthearted poem paints a fantastical fairytale in which two otherwise tender loving parents (P & Q) beget an abomination (aka H.C.) whom they need to purge. How many mothers can say, “The day I evicted you from my womb was the most horrible day of my life.”

Hip Shot: ‘Tape’

Ten years out of high school, Vince corners his old buddy Jon and former girlfriend Amy in a room (at the Motel 6) and forces them to rehash the fateful event that changed their relationships and their lives.

Hip Shot: ‘Chameleon’

Chameleon
The Apothecary
1013 7th Street NW

Remaining Performances:

Friday, July 23 at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 24 at 3:45 p.m.
Sunday, July 25 at 2:15 p.m.
They Say: “Chameleon is a multi-disciplinary presentation about global citizens who have been exposed to several cultures in their developmental years.  Exploring the notions of home, cultural identity and relationships through film, [...]