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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 Poes 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 [...]

‘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 [...]

Hip-Shot: ‘Life is a Dream’

Life is a Dream
Long View Gallery (1302 9th St. NW)
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 18 @ 8 PM; Saturday, July 19 @ 2 PM & 8 PM
They say: “Segismundo has spent his whole life imprisoned in a rocky tower until he wakes one morning the crown prince of Poland. Is this a dream? What dark secret has [...]

‘Power House’

Power House: The Disco Energy Dance Along Show
The Source
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ Noon
Sunday, July 20 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, July 25 @ 10:00 PM
They say: Power House: The Techno Dance Along Show by Shawn Northrip is a futuristic musical fable rave which casts the audience as dancers whose energy is converted to clean Discotech power. [...]

‘The Fiddler Ghost’

The Fiddler Ghost
Harman Center The Forum
Remaining performances:
Friday, July 18 @ 6:00pm; Saturday, July 19 @ 2:00 PM; Sunday, July 27 @ 7:00 PM
They say: A visual presentation of an ancient folktale. The evolution of a people long forgotten. The birth and death of magic from the world in our eyes. Movement, dance, art, music, [...]

Hip-Shot: ‘MANIFESTO!’

MANIFESTO!
The Source

Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 8 PM; Sunday, July 20 @ 3:30 PM; Wednesday, July 23 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, July 26 @ 9 PM
They say: Manifesto!
Art movement. Political movement.
MANIFESTO! is DADA. Clown is HAHA!
Three clowns, two punk visionaries, and an impresario walk into a bar. This is not a joke! This is [...]

Hip-Shot: ‘The Chalk Boy’

The Chalk Boy
Warehouse – Beyond
Remaining Performances:
Thursday, July 17, 6:30pm
Friday, July 18, 9:00pm
Saturday, July 19, 9:00pm
Sunday, July 20, Noon
They say: “Beneath its boring facade a Northwest town hides a nasty secret, and the girls from local high school’s Christian Athletes Club are here to tell you about it. Murder, the occult, algebra – this is a [...]