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Hip Shot: My Diamond Jubilee

Goethe Institut
Remaining Performances:
No more in the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival, because that’s done. But Ellouise Schoettler posts her tour dates on her site.
They say: ”Genealogy Meets Entertainment as 75-year-old storyteller Ellouise Schoettler puts flesh on old family bones to weave this intriguing collage of romance, hunky heroes, love, loss and reunion. Come for fun – leave [...]

Hip Shot: F#@king Up Everything

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St. NW
Remaining Fringe Performances:
None…but playing at Woolly Mammoth until Sunday, August 14
Running Time: 90 minutes
They say: “Can Christian Mohammed Schwartzelberg stay true to himself and still get the girl? Or will he lose her to the guy in leather pants? Set in Brooklyn’s indie music scene, it’s a rock [...]

Hip Shot: Open Hearts

Goethe Institut- Mainstage
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 23rd at 6 p.m.
They say:  “Sadie is turning 90. ‘Life is wonderful? Really? So where did everybody go? Living your life, it’s like open heart surgery: a big annoying pain!’”

Hip-Shot: I See You

The Apothecary, 1013 7th St, NW
Remaining Performances:
Wednesday, July 20th at 6 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: "OMG!… I see you have grown from the simple seed of thought, imagination and progression into the unbelievable cloud looming over us! Find me in [...]

Hip Shot: Enoch Arden

The Bedroom, Fort Fringe, 610 L St. NW
Remaining Performances:
Thursday, July 21, 6:45 p.m.
Sunday, July 24, 2 p.m.
They say: “Returning to the stage, Andrew White — whose past credits include performances with Source, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Le Neon Theatre — brings you a rare, stripped-down version of Tennyson’s epic poem on love, loss, loneliness [...]

Hip Shot: The Little Differences, or The Monster

Redrum at Fort Fringe, 612 L St. NW

Remaining Performances:
Thursday, July 21, 10 p.m.
Sunday, July 24, 5 p.m.
They say: ”What makes a man a monster? Tentacles? Tentacles help. This bittersweet comedy explores and celebrates what makes us unique and what pulls us together in hard times, and reminds us that horrible squid monsters are people, too.”

Hip Shot: Match Game DC

Remaining Performances:
Sunday, July, 17th, at 3 p.m.
Saturday, July 23rd, at 9 p.m.
Sunday, July 24th, at 6:30 p.m.
They say: “Get ready to fill in the blanks and laugh yourself silly at a live stage version of the classic TV game show, Match Game. Contestants match answers with a panel of six local celebrities to win cash [...]

Hip Shot: Good Girls Don’t, But Indian Girls Do

Chief Ike’s Mambo Room, 1725 Columbia Road NW
Remaining Performance:
Saturday, July 16 at 8:00 p.m.
They say: “Comedian Vijai Nathan breaks every taboo as she exposes the underbelly of an Indian American family. She takes you through growing up Indian in a Jewish community: discovering sex in a repressed Hindu household, and finding herself along the way.”

Hip Shot: The Bird

Goethe Institut – 812 7th St NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 15th, 10 p.m.
Tuesday, July 19th, 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 23rd, 3:30 p.m.
They say: “In search of adventure in Poland 1989, a young man discovers a female assassin, a Jewish skinhead, a mysterious bird, and the end of innocence. John Feffer plays seven characters in this one-man show, [...]

Hip Shot: Gypsy & the Bully Door

Warehouse, 645 New York Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Thursday, July 14, 7:45 p.m.
Saturday, July 16, noon
Tuesday, July 19, 7:45 p.m.
Friday, July 22, 6 p.m.
They say: “Sara – fortune teller & member of the ‘We Bomb Truth Over Lies’ graffiti movement – is haunted. The City eats its residents, exiling their spirits to Sara’s apartment, while Go-Go & [...]