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Hip Shot: Destination? Slammer!

Goethe-Institut Mainstage, 812 7th Street NW
Remaining performances:
Saturday, July 16, 10 p.m.
Sunday, July 17, 6 p.m.
Sunday, July 24, noon
They say:”The Hilarious True Adventures That Transform A British Convent School Girl Into A Chaplain At The Largest Men’s Prison In Maryland.”

Hip Shot: Cecily and Gwendolyns Fantastical Capital Balloon Ride

The Mountain – Mount Vernon United Methodist Church – 900 Massachusetts Avenue NW

Remaining Performances:

Saturday, July 16th at 10:15 pm
Sunday, July 17th at 3:15 pm
Tuesday, July 19th 7:30 pm
Wednesday, July 20th at 8 pm
They say:Eager for membership to the Royal Geographic Society, two slightly loopy time-traveling Victorian women run ground breaking social anthropological [...]

Hip Shot: The Many Women of Troy

Studio Theatre-Mead Theatre, 1501 14th St NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 16, 2:30p.m.
Tuesday, July 19, 6:30 p.m.
They say: “A bold new musical inspired by the classic Greek tragedy. Follow five women as they fight through times of conflict and violence, and watch them start their own little wars. Written by Broadway artists Michael Boynton and Brian Allan [...]

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: A Year of Living Dangerously

Redrum at Fort Fringe, 612 L St. NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 16, at 12 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20, at 8 p.m.
Saturday, July 23, at 6 p.m.
They say: “How do you survive in this crazy, mixed-up world if you’re: The #1 Mid-Atlantic Sports Fan? The child of nudists? A playwright? A polar bear?”

Hip Double-Shot EXTRA! Roosvelt, Theodore vs. Roosevelt, Alice Longworth

Everyone knows the Capital Fringe Festival’s lineup is crazy varied—deliberately provocative fare like F#@KING UP EVERYTHING (sic), The N Word? (sic), and Hotel Fuck are but one button-pushing demographic in the vast taxonomy of the festival’s 100-plus shows. But what’re the odds we’d get two solo shows about two different Roosevelts?
How about ONE HUNDRED PERCENT?
(I [...]

Tonight I’m Fringe-ing You: Five F&P Action News and Commentary Squad-Endorsed Selections

Okay, thrillseekers, another weekend’s Fringe-ry is upon us. The Fringe & Purge Action News and Commentary Squad will be out in force!
But then, we’ve been out in force. Here’re some shows that when filetered through our proprietary critical assessment algorithm came up at least 51 percent fresh, meaning, in clinical terms, that [...]

Hip Shots: Live Broadcast

Wonderbox, 629 New York Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 16, 2:45 p.m.
Tuesday, July 19, 7 p.m.
They say: “Live Broadcast examines the relationship between Hollywood, politics, and the media. When a young conservative movie star appears on a prime time political talk show he plunges his carefully orchestrated career into jeopardy.”

Hip Shot: Love Me! (Why Everyone Hates Actors)

The Shop at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Ave. NW.
Remaining Performances:
Wednesday, July 20, at 8:00pm
Saturday, July 23, at 3:45pm
Sunday, July 24, at 1:00pm
They say: “Why are actors freaks? This parody of an actor’s life will take you from the first glimpses of eclectic behavior through the insanity that forces actors to take off their clothes [...]

Hip Shot: Who Killed Captain Kirk?

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

Remaining Performance Stardates:
Saturday, July 16, 2:45 p.m.
Sunday, July 17, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20, 10 p.m.
Friday, July 22, 8:15 p.m.
They say: “At a Star Trek convention, actor William Shatner aka Captain Kirk is murdered. It’s up to a group of Trekkies to solve the crime. The [...]