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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: My Dad is Now Ready for His Spongebath

District of Columbia Arts Center, 2438 18th Street, NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday July 9th, 8:00 p.m.
They say: “Approximately 219,000 people annually in the United States are diagnosed with lung cancer. Even if one of them is your dad, it can be funnier than you think. The perfect show for anyone who has, or ever had, a [...]

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: ‘Eight’

Easily among the best of this year’s Fringe, this daringly constructed work is a choose your own adventure collection of monologues showing a generation losing themselves far too young.

Hip Shot: ‘Salem! The Musical’

A revisionist farce in two acts loaded with decidedly un-Pilgrim levels of innuendo, intrigue, and incontinence.

Hip Shot: ‘Freud Meets Girl’

Technology can’t beat good old-fashioned psychotherapy in this thoughtful piece of science fiction that sometimes stretches the limits of believability.

Hip Shot: ‘Super Claudio Bros. – The New Video Game Musical’

A world-weary plumber wonders if there’s more to life than jumping on 8-bit fungi; his jealous brother longs to become Player 1; a Princess aches for adventure and facial hair; an evil platypus just wants to be loved.

Hip Shot: ‘A Thing for Redheads’

Billed as a comedy, but surprisingly light on laughs given the pedigree of its writer, A Thing for Redheads has more big ideas than it’s able to follow through on.

Hip Shot: ‘The Horrors of Online Dating’

The Horrors of Online Dating
1409 Playbill Cafe, 1409 14th Street NW
Remaining Performances
Saturday, July 17, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, July 18, at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, July 21, at 8 p.m.
Thursday, July 22, at 8 p.m.
Friday, July 23, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, July 24, at 8 p.m.
Sunday, July 25, at 8 p.m.
They Say: “A gory musical comedy with sex, drugs, [...]

Hip Shot: ‘The Von Pufferhütte Family Singers! (the musical)’

With an act that contains “four times the dead babies in a jar” as the famous Von Trapps, the Von Pufferhütte family is poised to take America by storm in this silly musical from the makers of I Like Nuts! (the musical).