Archive for the ‘Performances’ Category

Hip Shot: ‘The Sticking Place’

The Sticking Place
The Shop at Fort Fringe
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 9:00 PM
Thursday, July 24 @ 8:00 PM
Saturday, July 26 @ 3:00 PM
They say: “The DC News career ladder has quite a few rotten rungs! The Sticking Place tells the story of young professionals sucked into this seedy underbelly of the Capital City. Bloodplay, thrill [...]

“Three Times a Lady”

Three Times a Lady
Warehouse Beyond – 1017 7th Street, NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 18 @ 7:00 PM
Wednesday, July 23 @ 9:00 PM
Saturday, July 26 @ 9:00 PM
Sunday, July 27 @ 1:00 PM
They say: “Award-winning comedy: She has multiple personalities; he loves all of them! He doesn’t want her cured. He likes having three wives while still [...]

Hip-Shot: ‘Revolutionary: Isadora Duncan…’

Revolutionary: Isadora Duncan’s Words, Music, Dance
Harman Center – Forum
Remaining Performances:
Sunday, July 13 @ 5:30 PM; Sunday, July 20 @ 6 PM
Sunday, July 24 @ 7 PM; Saturday, July 26 @ 1 PM
They say: “Join Word Dance Theater in their multi-media production of the life and times of Isadora Duncan, the great American artist and [...]

“McSwiggin’s Pub”

McSwiggin’s Pub
Cole Studio – 1714 15th Street NW (Rear)
Remaining Performances:
Wednesday, July 16 @ 9:00 PM
Sunday, July 20 @ 2:00 PM
Thursday, July 24 @ 7:00 PM
Saturday, July 26 @ 3:00 PM
They say: McSwiggin’s Pub is a one man comedy show featuring DC resident Sean O’Brien, a former performer at Chicago’s Second City, ImprovOlympic and Noble Fool [...]

Hip Shot: “Ethan Now”

Ethan Now
The Universe – Universalist National Memorial Church
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 18 @ 7pm
Sunday, July 20 @ 12:30pm
Saturday, July 26 @ 3pm
Sunday, July 27 @ 12:30pm
They say: “Ethan Now tells the story of the Lansdown brothers – Ethan, successful investment banker with a smart and beautiful wife, and Bradley, struggling writer who has “never even had [...]

“City Folk”

City Folk
The Universe and Source
Remaining Performances:
Sunday, July 13 @ 6:00 PM (The Universe)
Friday, July 18 @ 6:00 PM (Source)
Thursday, July 24 @ 8:00 PM (Source)
They say: “City Folk, a new improvised sitcom about the people you know, but don’t really want to. Over five nights audience members will drive the plot to create a pilot, [...]

“A Report of Gunfire’”

A Report of Gunfire
All performances at Warehouse Theater – Next Door (1021 7th Street NW)
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 12 @ 5:00 PM
Sunday, July 13 @ 12:00 PM
Thursday, July 17 @ 8:30 PM
Thursday, July 24 @ 9:30 PM
Saturday, July 26 @ 5:30 PM
They say: “A journalist covering the war in Iraq is haunted by the sights and [...]

‘Self Accusation’

Self Accusation at D.C. Arts Center Theater
Remaining performances: Schedule “varies” (?!)

They say: Who are you? Are you what you should have been? How did you become who you are? Can you face your inaction, your culpability, your own judgment? Peter Handke’s 1968 “speak-in” becomes an aural spectacle invading your awareness and permeating your experience.
Suzyn says: [...]

“Coriolanus”

Coriolanus at Warehouse Theater Next Door
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, 7/12, 2 pm
Sunday, 7/20, 2 pm
Saturday, 7/26, 7:30 pm
They say: “In the Rude Mechanicals’ Coriolanus – Man of the People by William Shakespeare, the seldom-performed play is reinterpreted (and trimmed) for a modern audience into a sharp satire about politics and politicians. No establishment is left unlampooned, from [...]

Hip Shot: “Revenge of the Cat-Headed Baby and Other True Tales about Life and Death”

Revenge of the Cat-Headed Baby and Other True Tales about Life and Death
Cole Studio
Remaining Performances:
Sunday, 7/13, 3pm
Wednesday, 7/16, 6:30pm
Saturday, 7/19, 9pm
Saturday, 7/26, 5pm
Sunday, 7/27, 4pm
They say: “Revenge… uses conversational storytelling as a vehicle for exploring 5 unique viewpoints on life and death. Ride along as we regale you with tales of war, procreation, chainsaws, telenovelas, [...]