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Hip Shots: Washed

Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes, 1217 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 15 at 7 p.m.
Saturday, July 16 at 7 p.m.
Sunday, July 17 at 7 p.m.
They say: “They know all your secrets. They prey on your fears. They make you scrub laundry until your fingers bleed, until you die. They’ll find you if you [...]

Hip Shot: A Piece of Pi

The Apothecary, 1013 7th St, NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 15 at 8:15 p.m.
Saturday, July 16 at 4 p.m.
Sunday, July 17 at 2 p.m.
Sunday, July 17 at 8:30 p.m.
They say: “Pi explores the world and examines life’s mysteries through a lens of wonder. Their comedic theatre uses acrobatics, juggling, eccentric dance, music, improvisation, puppetry and feats of [...]

Hip Shot: Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee

Fort Fringe – the Bedroom, 610 L St. NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 16 at 2 p.m.
Tuesday, July 19 at 9 p.m.
Running Time: 60 minutes
They say: ”A hysterical romp through America’s spiritual enterprise. The show exposes the blurry line between self-help and faith. Yoga gurus, healthy chocolate peddlers and Buddhists with God complexes ego-trip their way toward absurdity. Do these people really [...]

GoHorses Talks Process, Audience Interaction, and Misguided Stripping

Jo Firestone and Dylan Marron don’t mind making you uncomfortable.
“Depending on your name tag, your character might have misbehaved yesterday, and if so you will be chastised. “
That’s Firestone, describing the experience of walking into Meagan & David’s Original Low Cost Creativity Workshop, GoHorses’ new exercise in audience participation, discomfort, and general hilarity playing though [...]

Hip Shot: Squirrel, or The Origin of a Species

Redrum at Fort Fringe, 612 L Street NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 15, at 6:00pm
Sunday July 17 at 4:00pm
Thursday, July 21 at 8:00pm
They say: “A Man. A Squirrel. A Controversial Theory. The must see absurdist psychosocial thought experiment of the season. In a battle of wits with Sciurus carolinensis, Charles Darwin struggles to order the universe while [...]

C’est la vie des Fringe: Theater (re) for your Bastille Day consideration.

It’s Bastille Day, but since you tried, and failed, to get a ticket to that tres chic party at the French Embassy again, the Fringe & Purge Action News and Commentary Squad has some alternative suggestions, starting with Faction of Fools’ tor de Commedia dell’Arte, Tales of Courage and Poultry .
Our critic Sophia Bushong, who is [...]

Hip Shot: The Shrewing of the Tamed

The Shop at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 16 at noon
Tuesday, July 19 at 7 p.m.
Friday, July 22 at 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 24 at 3 p.m.
They say: “Are women as funny as men? This feminist adaptation of Taming of the Shrew explores the politics of power, performance, sex, and laughter by taking [...]

Hip Shot: The Morphine Diaries

Redrum at Fort Fringe, 610 L St. NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 16, at 11 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20, at 6 p.m.
Friday, July 22, at 8:30 p.m.
They say: “Morphine sees over 50 physicians before being diagnosed with Lyme disease. Her chronic pain is treated with prescription narcotics, to which she becomes addicted. Her battle becomes the survival against [...]

Hip Shots: Life Insurance

Fort Fringe – The Bedroom, 610 L Street, NW
Thursday, July 14, 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 16, 10 p.m.
Saturday, July 23, 8 p.m.
Sunday, July 24, 6:15 p.m.
They say: “A volunteer firefighter believes a fatal motorcycle crash on a rural Virginia road guides his own destiny. A standardized test instructor explains why he didn’t stop. A life insurance [...]

Hip Shot: Crave

The Shop at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Avenue NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 19 at 9:15 p.m.
Thursday, July 21 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, July 23 at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 24 at 5:30 p.m.
They say: ”Crave is a verbal onslaught that serves to carefully dissect and examine the darkest parts of romantic relationships. Abuse does not only come in [...]