We Finna Laugh: A Night of Comedy with Sampson
August 10
Friday at 7:30pm
$20 General/ $15 for DCAC Members
Award winning stand up comedian and writer Sampson McCormick, returns to DC for a very intimate and uproariously hilarious and thought provoking comedy performance.
Tickets available here.
Theory of Theories
Written & Directed by Sean Surla
Performed by Karoline Troger & Cristen Stephansky
August 3: Friday at 7:30pm
August 4: Saturday at 3pm
August 11: Saturday at 7:30pm
$15 General/ $10 for DCAC Members
Theories about life, love, desire, friendship, & connection… a play on vulnerability & evolving
Tickets available at door.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
THE MOVIES
July 27, 2018
Friday at 10pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
Who doesn’t love a good movie? Your Naked Girls are no different. But we are far fonder of the tales, legends, graphics and novels that brought them into existence. Bring your popcorn and join us for a Night at the Movies, July 27th at 10pm!
Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center to present the sexy starlets GiGi Holliday, Alice Darling and special guest Nina LaVoix to entertain, seduce and even educate you.
Seating is limited, so advanced ticketing is suggested.
Tickets available here.
It is better to speak!
July 27, 2018
Friday at 7:30pm
$10 General/ $8 for DCAC Members
RiverShe Collective Arts invites you to an evening of creative resistance & revival through spoken word, music, laughter, & community!
*DCAC members, please email info@dcartscenter.org to receive promotional code.
Tickets available here.
THE ACCIDENTAL PILGRIM
A NEW PLAY BY THEATRE DU JOUR
Directed by B. Stanley
July 7 – 15: Friday – Sunday at 7:30pm
July 19 – 26: Thursday – Sunday at 7:30pm
July 28 & 29: Saturday & Sunday at 7:30pm
$24 General/ $17 Fringe Button Discount
In this newly devised play Theatre Du Jour offers an intimate abstract spectacle with laser focus on humankind’s search for satisfaction. An unfulfilled individual starts on what he believes to be the road to his goals only to find the path is diverted and not as clear as he had imagined. Psychedelic visuals and sound caress the ensemble as they make their way through this decidedly obtuse adventure.
Featuring Jerry Herbilla, Jacquelyn Paulin, Rachel Reed, Kris Roth, and Annetta Dexter Sawyer. Sound design by Rob Gould and Nate Taylor.
This production is presented as a part of the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival, a program of the Washington, DC non-profit Capital Fringe.
Tickets available here.
GNO: Gay Night Out
June 23, 2018
Saturday at 7:30 & 10pm
$20 / $15 DCAC Members at the door
GNO brings together DC’s trendsetting LGBTQ musicians and performers for a night of queer excellence. You’ll be laughing, singing, and dancing your way through a new breed of nightlife entertainment.
Hosted by Jane Saw. Performances by Bryce, Hilary Morrow, and Jordan Genovese.
Tickets available here.
Chinese Menu March
June 22, 2018
Friday at 7:30pm
$10 General / $7 Pre-Sale & Members
These all star improv shows have been selling out for almost 10 years. Come see why!
Tickets available here.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Comedy Undressed
June 22, 2018
Friday at 10pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
We want to tickle your fancy and your funny bone! Join us as the Naked Girls read their favorite memoirs, tales, blogs and funny stories by the world’s most memorable jokesters! Cherokee Rose is in stitches to present GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling and a to be announced for Naked Girls Reading Presents Comedy Undressed.
Seating is limited, so advanced ticketing is suggested.
Tickets available here.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Science Fiction
May 18, 2018
Friday at 10pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
By Grabthar’s Hammer, through time and space, in a galaxy far far away, to boldly go where no Naked Girl has gone before, join us for Naked Girls Reading presents SciFi Fantasy. Will we be the Mother’s of Dragons, The Queens of Fairy or ruler of a realm both Muggle and Wizard alike? Join us, faithful squires, through journeys far and wide starting at our home the DC Arts Center on an epic the Bards will sing for ages to come. Cherokee Rose returns to the shire with Alice Darling, Cherie Sweetbottom and GiGi Holliday at the DC Arts Center on May 18th at 10pm. So say we all!
Seating is limited, so advanced ticketing is suggested.
Tickets available here.
WIT Road Show: Interplay
May 3 – June 16, 2018
Thursday-Sunday at 7:30pm
May 4 – 12 & May 25 – June 16
Friday & Saturday at 9:30pm
Online Pre-Sale: $12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
Washington Improv Theater’s Interplay features dynamic collaborations between WIT’s own improvisers and artists from a myriad of disciplines—from music to puppetry to storytelling. These one-of-a-kind mash-ups will be unlike anything you’ve seen before on WIT’s stage!
Tickets available soon. More info available here.
Zach and Kristin Will Make You Cry
April 20, 2018
Friday at 10pm
$12 / $10 DCAC Members
Zach Mason and Kristin O’Brien, best friends and experienced DC comedians, will try (and fail) to move the audience to tears. Zach and Kristin Will Make You Cry is a parody comedy show that combines scripted sketches, improvised scenes, and multimedia elements inspired by Zach and Kristin’s lived experiences. A little silly, potentially profound, mostly cathartic. You will not be unmoved. The show follows a theme from the magnitude of the universe to the singular experience of shameful alone time. Don’t close your eyes or fall asleep, because you don’t want to miss the spectacle of Zach and Kristin Will Make You Cry.
Tickets available here.
Rock Around the Box!
April 13, 2018
Friday at 10pm
$10 General/ $8 for DCAC Members at door
An evening of improvised duos with Brianna Lux, Jenna Hall, and Lura Barber of Nox! Let them help you laugh (or cry) away your Friday the 13th.
Tickets available here.
Michael Jons’ Wicked Thoughts!
April 7 – 28, 2018
Saturdays at 10pm
FREE
Mind reader and psychic entertainer Michael Jons premieres his new theatrical stage show, “Wicked Thoughts!”, a baffling trick of a show that peeks into the dark corners of our individual and collective minds. The show will make you laugh, leave you astonished, and have you wondering about whose thoughts you’re really thinking. It’s a thrilling and inspiring piece of psychological theater that’s bound to leave audiences wanting to see it again!
Tickets available here.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
The 6th Annual Nerdettes
April 6, 2018
Friday at 10pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
Are you in possession of a Tardis key, have a Sorting Hat and your very own Mjölnir? Then do we have a show for you! On the heels of Awesome Con, DC’s official Naked Girls are here to definitively prove Nerds can be Sexy. Naked Girls Reading Presents Nerdettes will showcase tales of Wakandans, Mutants, and Hunters. Join the Nerdalicious Cherokee Rose, Gigi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, and Alice Darling at the DC Arts Center on April 6th at 10pm.
Seating is limited, so advanced ticketing is suggested.
Tickets available here.
Rainbow Theatre Project Presents:
Top and Bottom
By: Kevin Michael West
Directed by: Christopher Janson
April 5 – 29, 2018
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 3pm or 7:30pm
Monday, April 16 at 7:30pm
$35 / $30 DCAC Members at the door
Top and Bottom is an encounter between two young men who want to explore their fantasies in sexual bondage scene. Their only problem is they are a bit klutzy, a bit nerdy, and not totally sure what they are doing! (Warning: The production contains full male nudity).
Tickets available here.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
HOT SPOT
March 31, 2018
Saturday at 10pm
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
One night only! It’s LIT’s musical comedy show! You’ll hear funny songs from our Laugh Index Players plus you’ll see them perform musical improv and musical sketch! This show is so much fun it will hit your hot spot! There will also be a jam at the end of the show! The 10 pm show features special guest Julian Stern.
Tickets available here.
Chinese Menu March
March 30, 2018
Friday at 10pm
$10 General / $7 Pre-Sale & Members
Chinese Menu is back! Who is in this months show? Does it really matter? You know its going to kick ass! Mark your calendars!
Tickets available here.
Michael Jons’ Psychic Cabaret
March 23 – 31, 2018
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
$50 General/ $40 DCAC Members at door
Michael Jons’ Psychic Cabaret is the mind-boggling and hysterical hit show by mind reader and psychic entertainer Michael Jons. During his lightening-paced performance, Michael Jons astonishes the audience with his Sherlockian style of people-reading, his Svengali-like power to persuade and, of course, his incredible ability to seemingly read the private thoughts of total strangers. But the show’s highlight is the dazzling variety of psychic readings that Jons does, instantly and memorably, for lucky members of the audience. Grab some friends or bring a date and join us for this fun and unique show!
Tickets available here.
Swipe Right For Comedy
March 23 & 24, 2018
Friday and Saturday at 10pm
$15 General/ $12 DCAC Members at door
Swipe Right For Comedy is a place to go for an hour and laugh at the folly of life. A place to put your proverbial feet up–although you can’t in reality. The seats are not built for that.
Tickets available here.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
In the Hot Seat
March 11
April 8
Sunday at 8pm
Pre-Sale: $10 / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 / $13 DCAC Members
In the Hot Seat is LIT’s monthly comedy variety show featuring comedy ensemble, Hot & Sweaty, on Sunday nights in Adams Morgan. Hot & Sweaty performs all types of comedy: improv, sketch, stand-up. They also love to invie one willing audience member on stage. Are you ready for the hot seat?
Tickets available here.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
FEMIN-EDY & DUDE-EDY
March 10, 2018
Saturday at 10pm
Online Pre-Sale: $10 / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 / $12 DCAC Members
The Battle of the Sexes Just Got LIT! Laugh Index Theatre presents two segments in one show to answer one timeless question: Who’s Funnier Men or Women? The FEMIN-EDY segment features stand-up comediennes & sketch artists, femme fatale improvisers and musical improvisers. The DUDE-EDY segment showcases the dudes in stand-up, sketch, improv and musical improv. After the show, there’s a BATTLE OF THE SEXES IMPROV JAM with the performers in the show.
Tickets available here.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
True Crime
March 9, 2018
Friday at 10pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
Join us, crime enthusiasts, through stories sordid and dark as we detail true crime stories of the serial killers and psychopaths that hold our attentions from across the globe. Cherokee Rose returns to our muderino home the DC Arts Center with Alice Darling, Cherie Sweetbottom and GiGi Holliday.
Seating is limited, so advanced ticketing is suggested.
Tickets available here.
The Wheel Theatre Company:
A Burial Place
By: Owen Panettieri
Directed by: Elizabeth Floyd
March 8 – 16, 2018
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm
March 17
Saturday at 3pm
$20 General / $15 DCAC Members at door
Following a rough sophomore year at college, Emmett, Colby and Marcus were hoping to reunite at home for a fun night of beers and laughs at their annual summer sleepover. Instead, they come back to find their town at the epicenter of a major police investigation. A gruesome discovery out in the woods where they used to play has resulted in public outrage and a growing list of unanswered questions. What’s been found out there could be connected to an incident involving Marcus from years earlier, but if the boys go in search of the truth now, it may only pull them apart forever. Some secrets, no matter how far you push them down, never find a place to rest.
Tickets available here.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
I Heart Improv
February 14, 2018
Wednesday at 8 pm
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
Admission is *FREE* if you bring a handmade valentine addressed to no one in particular
Time to put away the high-calorie chocolates, mixed tapes and lame greeting cards. Steer clear of those once-you’ve-seen-one-you’ve-seen-them-all romantic comedies. This Valentines Day, listen to your heart and its one true desire — the desire laugh like no one’s watching. “i heart improv” will fulfill this desire and introduce you to a new passion: improv comedy. The show will be filled with made-up love songs, a dating game & made-up relationships where s/he said “yes and.” The commitment is only for one night, but it’s a night you’ll always remember.
Tickets available here.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
In the Hot Seat
Sundays at 8pm
February 11
March 11
April 8
Pre-Sale: $10 / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 / $13 DCAC Members
In the Hot Seat is LIT’s monthly comedy variety show featuring comedy ensemble, Hot & Sweaty, on Sunday nights in Adams Morgan. Hot & Sweaty performs all types of comedy: improv, sketch, stand-up. They also love to invie one willing audience member on stage. Are you ready for the hot seat?
Tickets available here.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Come into my Parlor
February 9, 2018
Friday at 10pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
Join us as we start the year with our annual New Years tradition of salacious books, kinky authors and naked woman. It was such a rousing good time last year we had to bring it back to ring in 2018. Come Into My Parlor features DC official Naked Girls; Cherokee Rose, Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling and a special guest performing an aural assortment of Erotica to warm those chilly January bones.
Tickets available here.
Rainbow Theatre Project Presents:
No Word in Guyanese for Me
Part of the 2018 Women’s Voices Theater Festival
February 8 – March 4, 2018
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 3pm or 7:30pm
Monday, February 19 at 7:30pm
$35 / $30 DCAC Members at the door
A gay Muslim’s journey to reconcile her faith and her sexuality.
Winner of the GLAAD Award, No Word in Guyanese for Me is a poetic, lyrical play, a beautiful exploration of religious and sexual identity. This is the journey of Hanna. From her childhood in Guyana to her adolescence in 9/11 New York City, from a disastrous arranged marriage to her sexual awakening, Hanna struggles to come to terms with her sexual identity, her devotion to her faith, and the right to be accepted for who she is, a gay Muslim. Written by Wendy Graf, directed by Julia Hurley, starring Ashley K. Nicholas.
Tickets available here.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Sketch Night
Wednesday at 8pm
January 31
February 28
March 28
April 25
May 23
Online Pre-Sale: $10 / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 / $12 DCAC Members
LIT’s Sketch Night is an entire show devoted to sketch comedy. Brought to you by both of LIT’s house teams, Separate Beds & The Employables, each month’s show is a different theme with new material.
Tickets available here.
Rainbow Theatre Project Presents:
Eleanor and Marilyn & Power Down
Directed by Elizabeth Pringle
January 22, 2018
Monday at 7:30pm
$15 / $12 DCAC Members at the door
Eleanor and Marilyn by Monica Regan. About a conversation between (you guessed it) Eleanor Roosevelt and Marilyn Monroe.
Power Down by Kate Colwell. About a woman navigating in a world of Al.
Tickets available here.
In Your Ear
January 21
February 28
March 18
April 15
May 20
Sunday at 3 pm
$5 General/ FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Meg Ronan and Mike Walsh.
Tickets available here.
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
In Your Ear
December 17, 2017
Sunday at 3 pm
$5 General/ FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Meg Ronan and Mike Walsh.
Tickets: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Washington Improv Theatre Presents:
Rise Up!
November 9 – 25, 2017
Thursdays – Sundays at 7:30 pm
Fridays & Saturdays at 9:30 pm
Online Pre-Sale: $12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
What will happen at the WIT Road Show? Your guess is as good as ours! WIT’s company ensembles and special guests take over DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan with our thrilling, unpredictable performances! Each show’s line-up is unique and every performance is one-of-a-kind.
Tickets & more info: witdc.org
Chinese Menu Invitational
November 3 & 4, 2017
Friday at 7:30 & 10 pm
Saturday at 7:30 & 10 pm
$10 Pre-Sale & Members / $12 General
An invite only festival where the teams have been curated and vetted ensures that they are up to the Menu standard! We have secured the DCAC for the whole weekend. There will be workshops, shows, laughs, and as always, pizza.
Tickets:
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
A Comedy of Horrors
October 27 & 28, 2017
Friday and Saturday at 10 pm
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $13 DCAC Members
It’s so funny, it’s scary. A Comedy of Horrors, LIT’s Halloween-themed comedy variety show, includes stand-up comedians, improv teams and sketch comedy. You’ll have a wicked good time.
Tickets: laughindextheatre.com
In Your Ear
November 19, 2017
Sunday at 3 pm
$5 General/ FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Meg Ronan, Mike Walsh
Tickets: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Comedy Undressed
November 17, 2017
Friday at 10 pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
We want to tickle your fancy and your funny bone! Join us as the Naked Girls read their favorite memoirs, tales, blogs and funny stories by the world’s most memorable jokesters! Cherokee Rose is in stitches to join GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling for Naked Girls Reading Presents Comedy Undressed, November 17th at 10pm.
Tickets: https://nakedgirlsreadingscomedy.brownpapertickets.com/
Chinese Menu Home for the Holidays
December 23, 2017
Saturday at 7 & 9:30 pm
$10 Pre-Sale & Members / $12 General
Lots of very talented people come home for the holidays so we like to make sure we get them on stage. Come see some of your favorite Menu Regulars mix it up with some of the most fun ex pats! There is so much talent we have 2 shows!
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
A Very Naked Holiday
December 15, 2017
Friday at 10 pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
The holiday season is no reason to turn into a Scrooge. Join us for Naked Girls Readings Presents: A Very Naked Holiday and you’ll be filled with so much holiday cheer your wee heart will grow three sizes this year. Already a Suzy Snowflake? Then you won’t want to miss this North Pole Express filled with heart, wit and just enough sass to make anyone’s belly shake with Naked Girl class. It’s become our Holiday tradition make it yours too!
The Naked Girls celebrate any winter holiday they can get their hands on with their ever-popular, A Very Naked Holiday show! Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling, GiGi Holliday, and a TBA special guest, December 15th at 10:00pm.
Judge Me Not
October 14 & 15, 2017
Saturday at 10 pm
Sunday at 6:30 pm
$25 General/ $20 for DCAC Members
Judge Me Not is a diverse ensemble production featuring seasoned actors in a variety of characters. A unique monologue performance that takes you on a journey through the lives of 10 souls and challenges our snap judgement through storytelling. Judge Me Not delves deeper beyond the surface of others to incite a little more compassion.
Tickets:
Theatre du Jour Presents:
The Accidental Pilgrim
October 12 – 28
Thursdays – Saturdays at 7:30 pm
$20 General / $15 DCAC Members
A NEW PLAY BY THEATRE DU JOUR
Directed by B. Stanley
In this newly devised play Theatre Du Jour offers an intimate abstract spectacle with laser focus on humankind’s search for satisfaction. An unfulfilled individual starts on what he believes to be the road to his goals only to find the path is diverted and not as clear as he had imagined. Psychedelic visuals and sound caress the ensemble as they make their way through this decidedly obtuse adventure.
Featuring Jerry Herbilla, Jacquelyn Paulin, Rachel Reed, Kris Roth, and Annetta Dexter Sawyer. Sound design by Rob Gould.
More Info: theatredujour.com
Tickets:
Chinese Menu
October 7, 2017
Saturday at 10 pm
$10 Pre-Sale & Members / $12 General
The kick ass, rock star, grimy little monthly all star show is back. Mark your calendars and make sure you don’t miss this show that has been selling out for years!
Tickets:
In Your Ear
September 17, 2017
Sunday at 3 pm
$5 General/ FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month features readings by Nat Baldwin and Mugabe Byenkya.
Curated by Meg Ronan, Mike Walsh
Tickets: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Rise Up!
September 14 – October 1, 2017
Thursdays – Sundays at 7:30 pm
Fridays & Saturdays at 9:30 pm
Online Pre-Sale: $12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $10 DCAC Members
Over inauguration weekend in 2017, WIT presented a one-weekend politically-minded barrage of improv shows called Rise Up! That cathartic, eye-opening, and raw experience stirred something up in DC’s improv community and WIT is thrilled to present this three-week revisitation of politically inspired performances. Rise Up! explores all the ways the personal really is political, and vice versa. Part rallying cry, part group hug, Rise Up! is an artistic response to the life and times we live in.
Tickets & more info: witdc.org
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Mythology
September 8, 2017
Friday at 10 pm
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
Beloved by Seshat, blessed by Aphrodite, and drinking buddies with Anansi, Naked Girls Reading DC is pleased to take you back to a time of myth and legend for Naked Girls Reading Presents: Mythology! Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with GiGi Holiday, Cherie Sweetbottom, and Alice Darling to pass down ancient and awesome tales of fairies, heroes, and the occasional trickster in this auspicously naked month of September.
Tickets: http://nakedgirlsreadingmyth.bpt.me/
Randy Syphax LIVE!
August 25, 2017
Friday at 10 pm
$5 / $3 DCAC Members
Come enjoy an evening of comedy with nationally touring comedian Randy Syphax as he tapes his latest special. It will be immediately followed by a Q&A with Randy.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/randy-syphax-live-tickets-37103608893
Chinese Menu Comedy
August 19, 2017
Saturday at 7:30 pm
$10 General / $8 Pre-Sale & Members
*Presale tickets (only available online) end at midnight the night before the event*
The kick-ass, rock star, grimy little monthly all star show is back. Mark your calendars and make sure you don’t miss this show that has been selling out for years!
Tickets: http://augmenu.bpt.me/
Go Get My Mom Improv
August 18, 2017
Friday at 8 pm
$12 General / $10 DCAC Members
A one night only comedy/storytelling performance, Go Get My Mom is centered around finding humor in life’s darker moments. Erik Beringer, John Barnes, and David Vaughn Staughn are three Virginia-based comedians with distinct and unique performance style brought together under one roof to share personal experiences and give you something to laugh about and they are making Washington D.C. the fourth stop on their five city tour.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Internets
August 11, 2017
Friday at 10 pm
At the door: $27 / $22 DCAC Members and Presale
*Presale tickets (only available online) end at midnight the night before the event*
You know it, you love it, it’s made you partially blind, let us bring you the best of it we can find. From the hilarious to the disturbing, Naked Girls Reading presents the Internet! Cherokee Rose returns to the DC Arts Center with Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling, and GiGi Holliday at the DC Arts Center on August 11th at 10pm.
Videofreex Presents:
Mayday ’71
August 7, 2017
Monday at 7:30 pm
$10 / $8 DCAC Members
The first public preview of a new edit of rare footage of the largest civil disobedience in American history against the Vietnam War, which took place in Washington DC April 19 – May 5, 1971. The slogan was “If the Government won’t stop the war, we’ll STOP THE GOVERNMENT!” Recorded by thirty of the first generation of video filmmakers, armed with the first generation of portable video, the action-packed doc witnesses the protests from inside as well as interviews with Rennie Davis and Dr. Benjamin Spock. The new film has been re-edited for the 21st century with added newly discovered footage and international titles, by Emmy-winning filmmaker Skip Blumberg, an original member of Videofreex and Mayday Video.
More information: http://dcartscenter.org/performance6.htm
Rainbow Theatre Project Presents:
Blue Camp
September 16 & 18, 2017
Saturday at 3 pm, Monday at 7:30 pm
$15 General / $13 DCAC Members
Blue Camp is a drama with humor that takes place on an Army base somewhere in the U.S. in the late summer of 1964, just prior to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Soldiers accused of homosexuality are kept in the Blue Barracks awaiting discharge while criminal soldiers are kept in the Green Barracks. These are the days leading into the event known as the Vietnam War. Written by Tim Caggiano and Jack Calvin Hanna. Directed by Christopher Janson.
The Rainbow Theatre Project offers eclectic performances that honor and uplift the gay community and affirm the worth of all people. Support LGBTQ Theatre.
Tickets:
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Sketch Night
December 1, 2017
Friday at 10pm
Online Pre-Sale: $10 / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 / $13 DCAC Members
LIT’s Sketch Night is an entire show devoted to sketch comedy. Brought to you by both of LIT’s house teams, Separate Beds & The Employables, each month’s show is a different theme with new material.
Naked Girls Reading Presents
Neil Gaiman
July 14, 2017
Friday at 10 pm
$27 General / $22 DCAC Members and Pre-sale
Sandman, Neverwhere, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Norse Mythology. Do those words bring excitement to your very being? Then this is the show for you! Don’t know those titles yet? Then come and find out about this amazing literary and film sensation. We can never get enough of Neil Gaiman so Naked Girls Reading dedicates the month of July to the winner of a multitude of literary awards, our Erudite hearts and one of our Favorite Author’s, Neil Gaiman!
Chinese Menu
July 10, 2017
Monday at 7:30 pm
$12 General / $10 DCAC Members
The shows we had last year with our guests from the Second City gave us some of the best work and most memorable moments of the year. Including our current cover and event page photo!! They are back! We are waiting on confirmation for how many Chicago friends will be joining us. Once we know we will get those tickets available. Unlike last year it looks like we will only get ONE SHOW with them. You know it will be good.
Tickets: http://cmcsc3.bpt.me/
MOLOTOV THEATRE GROUP PRESENTS:
A READING BY RAFAEL ALVAREZ
July 11
Tuesday at 7 pm
FREE
Molotov Theatre Group brings Rafael Alvarez, author and writer for “The Wire” to DCAC on July 11, to kick off his latest book tour.
Rafael Alvarez, the author of 11 books and a former writer for the legendary HBO series “The Wire,” is coming to the DC Arts Center (DCAC) on July 11 to read selections from his new collection, “ Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown.” The reading will be followed by a question and answer session with attendees.
“Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown” is a mix of stories including such far-flung subjects as a junk man and his Greek lover, duck blood soup, flying John Lennon dolls, and a hot-air balloon shaped like the head of Elvis Presley. Basilio Boullosa is Alvarez’s alter-ego, an artist who brings canvases to life at night while painting the side of seafood trucks by day to make ends meet.
A lifelong Baltimorean, Rafael Alvarez graduated with a degree in English from Loyola University of Maryland. For twenty years, he worked as a City Desk reporter for the Baltimore Sun. He quit the paper in 2001 to work as a laborer on cable ships and soon after began writing for HBO’s police drama, The Wire. Since 2009, Alvarez has concentrated on writing books and screenplays for independent films.
Of Alvarez’s new book, Guggenheim Fellow Deborah Rudacille writes, “Past and present converge in an eternal now for both writer and character, a now flavored with the ache of abandonment.”
“Alvarez’s characters are a particular kind of American—those restless souls who leave because they cannot stay but who refuse to surrender the sight, smell, taste, and touch of that which has been lost. They live in a permanent state of exile, a liminal world of the present shot through with the past, how enchanting the ache.”
WHO WHAT WHERE THEATER PRESENTS:
WE FOUND THE WILD THINGS
July 8 – 16
Saturdays at 3 and 7:30 pm
Sundays at 3 pm
$15 General / $10 DCAC Members
Friendships are formed, broken and rewritten in Andrew Reid’s new coming-of-age story We Found the Wild Things. Seven friends mark seven New Year’s Eves in their hometown, learning the value of what we carry with us and of what we leave behind.
Tickets: www.whowhatwheretheaterco.org
Steampunked Stories
June 24, 2017
$8 General / $6 DCAC Members
This riotous performance of the wildly inventive Steampunked Stories by Tom Howell, including an imaginative slide show, punctuated throughout with eruptions from his time machine. It’s full steam ahead as Tom and his film crew activate the sparks and white lightning from the dome of his creation. Audience will be filmed, a portion of the proceeds to be donated to Autism Speaks. This event is family friendly, and will offer free kazoos!
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Nerdettes
June 23, 2017
At the door: $27 General/ $22 DCAC Members and Presale
*Presale tickets (only available online) end at midnight the night before the event*
Are you in possession of a TARDIS key, Sorting Hat, and your very own Precious? Then do we have a show for you! On the heels of Awesome Con, DC’s official Naked Girls are here to definitively prove Nerds can be Sexy. Naked Girls Reading Presents Nerdettes will showcase tales of Hobbits, Mutants, and The Doctor. Join the Nerdalicious Cherokee Rose, GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, and Alice Darling at the DC Arts Center on June 23rd at 10 pm. Dress in your best nerdy/cosplay outfit to enter our Nerdettes Costume Contest.
In Your Ear
May 21, 2017
$5 General / FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month features readings by Toby Altman, Lauren Hunter, and Justin Sirois. Curated by Meg Ronan, Tony Mancus, and Mike Walsh.
Tickets: http://www.dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Road Show
May 4 – June 18, 2017
Thursdays – Sundays at 7:30 pm
Fridays & Saturdays at 9:30 pm
Online Pre-Sale: $12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $10 DCAC Members
What will happen at the WIT Road Show? Your guess is as good as ours! WIT’s company ensembles and special guests take over DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan with our thrilling, unpredictable, performances! Each show’s line-up is unique and every show is one-of-a-kind!
Tickets: witdc.org
Chinese Menu
April 29, 2017
$12 General/ $10 DCAC Members
Keisha Zollar is coming to town and we are putting some fun people on stage with her.
Mark your calendars and get your tickets. Chinese Menu shows have been called “The Ramones” of the improv scene. Why? Because they are bare bones and a kick ass rock and roll good time. No real kitsch. No gimmicks. No real hook other than the best in town having a great time.
Tickets: http://april2017.bpt.me/
In Your Ear
December 18, 2016
$5 General / FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month features readings by J.K. Daniels, Kelly Chick, and Camognhne Felix.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
A Hot & Sweaty Holiday 7, Part 2
December 16, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $15 General / $13 DCAC Members
Door: $20 General / $18 DCAC Members
Seven times the charm and holiday spirit of its predecessors, the seventh annual “A Hot & Sweaty Holiday” will have seven times the laughs!
Join us at the DC Arts Center on 12.16.16. You’ll laugh so hard you’ll sweat the holiday pounds away, and your ticket purchase will help Bread for the City.
The show is ninety minutes long with no intermission. Tickers are $20 online, and all proceeds go to Bread for the City. Tickets are $25 CASH ONLY at the door.
The Wheel Theatre Company:
At Sea, Staring Up
by Finegan Kruckemeyer
December 9-11, 2016
$20 General / $15 DCAC Members
The Wheel is a new theatre company in Washington, DC dedicated to telling stories about bringing human beings from all walks of life together. The Wheel’s first production is the North American Premiere of At Sea, Staring Up by prolific Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer. Set over three continents and one vast ocean, this richly poetic, magical realist romance weaves together the lives of five individuals searching for direction and belonging. Anyone that has ever lost their way will see themselves echoed in these characters’ journeys.
Tickets: www.thewheeltheatre.org
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Sketch Night
With Separate Bed and The Employables
December 2, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
During this show, Separate Beds & The Employables, two sketch house teams at Laugh Index Theatre, will perform sketch comedy.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
All Work & Some Plays
By Mr. Lifeguard
December 2 – 3, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
An evening of short plays written and performed by LIT’s Mr. Lifeguard.
For more info, please visit: www.laughindextheatre.com
In Your Ear
November 20, 2016
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month’s readings will feature James Belflower & Matthew Klane, Michelle Dove, & Matvei Yankelevich.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Poetry
November 19, 2016
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
Remember, remember, the month of November, with Naked Girls, charming and hot! Naked Girls Reading DC is proud to present Naked Girls Reading: Poetry! Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling, GiGi Holiday and a TBA special guest star on November 19th at 10pm.
Tabla for Two Presents:
Birthday Beats Concert
November 13, 2016
$20 General / $15 DCAC Members
Tabla for Two is celebrating Abigail’s birthday by playing fabulous new music! Abigail Adams Greenway and Masood Omari have created original compositions drawing from rich musical traditions, blending classical Eastern beats with Western style to produce a powerful fusion for the tabla and harmonium. Many who have heard this music describe it as mesmerizing, energizing and transcendental. It is without a doubt a unique experience! Tabla for Two will be joined by Sofya Savkina, dancer.
Please call 202-462-7833 for reservations
Hot Spot
November 11, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
One night only! It’s LIT’s musical comedy show! You’ll hear funny songs from our Laugh Index Players plus you’ll see them improvise songs and freestyle rap! This show is so much fun that it will hit your hot spot!
Sketch Comedy
November 4 & 5, 2016
$15 General/ $12 for DCAC Members
Turkeys make for great pets–especially around the holidays. If you like sketch comedy and American holidays (not to mention elections), this sketch comedy show might be right in your bailiwick. Join us for an evening of laughter, love, and lewdness. And let’s make Thanksgiving ThanksKEEPing.
Tickets: https://urgentcreations.ticketleap.com/thankskeeping-comedy/
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Three’s Comedy
November 2, November 9, December 7, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $5 General / $3 DCAC Members
Door: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre LIT knows the rules of comedy, and we’re bringing you the power of three. Three types of comedy. One Show. Come on, and knock at our door….
Theatre du Jour:
To Have Done with the Judgement of God
October 21 – November 12, 2017
$20 General / $15 DCAC Members
Halloween is creepier and more bizarre with the return of the critically acclaimed To Have Done with The Judgement Of God. Profane and irreverent, profound and funny, this multi-media spectacle explores the futility of our relation to the government, nature, God and our bodies.
“Hallucinatory images … visual shock tactics … surreal pageantry” – The Washington Post
“Do not miss this production … an ambitious and audacious project.” – DC Theatre Scene
Having spent much of his final years in various mental asylums, Artaud resurfaced in 1947 with a radio play: To Have Done with the Judgement of God. The work remained true to his Theatre of Cruelty, utilizing an array of unsettling sounds, cries, screams and grunts, and it was shelved by French Radio the day before it was scheduled to air on February 2, 1948. Artaud died one month later. Using the text as a roadmap Theatre Du Jour uses sound, imagery, projections, video and music relay the author’s convictions as to the futility of government, the usurping of nature, the dismissal of God and man’s perverted relation to his body. This rare and unusual performance fuels the debate of whether Artaud was a visionary or a madman; sublime or insane
In Your Ear
October 16, 2016
$5 General/ FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month’s readings will feature Cathy Eisenhower, Taylor Johnson, and Jee Leong Koh.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More info at: http://dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
The Chinese Menu Comedy Invitational
October 14, October 15, 2016
$10 General/ $8 for DCAC Members
Chinese Menu Comedy took the summer off to prepare for one of its biggest endeavors yet:
The Chinese Menu Comedy Invitational
One weekend. Five blocks of shows. Lots of out of town teams paired with the best in DC in a team-team mash up type format.
Each of the first four blocks will pair an out-of-town team with a mash up of DC’s best. Each group will do their show and then play as one team to close out each block. The last show of the weekend will be a mash-up featuring players from participating teams and some special guests . The line up is still coming together but here is who is coming to town so far:
Amie and Kristen Show – (PHIT & MAGNET)
Maxitor – (Fine Line Comedy ((BOSTON))
GUS – (Baltimore Improv Group)
(DC casts subject to change)
Schedule:
Friday at 7:30 – DC team / GUS / mash up
Friday at 10 – DC team / The Amie and Kristen Show / mash up
Saturday at 7:00 – DC team / Maxitor / mash up
Saturday at 9 – DC team / Visiting team / mash up
Saturday at 11- Three end of event mash ups featuring players from participating teams, DC players and special guests!
Tickets: http://cmcinvitational.bpt.me/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Something Wicked
October 21, 2016
$25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
This October, DC’s Naked Girls Reading celebrates its fifth-year anniversary with Naked Girls Reading Presents Something Wicked! Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with Cherie Sweetbottom, GiGi Holliday, Alice Darling and Special Guest, Lyra Valkyrie, on October 21st at 10pm. The Naked Girls will scare the pants off you with tales to thrill and chill; disturb and perturb; tease, tantalize and terrify! This special annual show will feature a costume contest judged by the Naked Girls themselves and naked tarot card readings by the Bewitching Beauty, Cherokee Rose!
Press Play Hump Days
October 12, 2016
Pre-sale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with any form of flatulence-based humor. Seriously. This is not a joke. We keep track. Press Play has performed at venues across the country such as the LA Improv Festival, Steel Stacks, and the Del Close Marathon. We also perform regularly at improv theaters around DC, and once at a birthday party. The birthday boy threw cake.
Chinese Menu Comedy
October 8, 2016
FREE
Summer is ending and the Chinese Menu Comedy Invitational is in October. Before we get there we thought we would get back to business with a good old fashioned Menu mash up featuring DC’s best!
Please call 202-462-7833 for more information and reservations
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
House Comics
October 7, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre presents it’s monthly House Comics show and open mic. For more
information, please visit: www.laughindextheatre.com
Tickets: http://lithousecomicsshow.bpt.me/
Laugh Index Theatre Presents: A Comedy of Horrors
October 7, October 28, October 29, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
It’s so funny, it’s scary. A Comedy of Horrors, LIT’s Halloween-themed comedy variety show, includes stand-up comedians, improv troupes and sketch comedy. You’ll have a wicked good time.
Sketchy Comedy & Riotous Readings
September 30, October 1, 2016
$15 General/ $10 DCAC Members
Rabble Crew Productions presents a double-shot of light theater.
Friday we feature bawdy comedy (think SNL) written and performed by local women including Star Johnson, Madeline Farrington, Cristen Stephansky, Yvonne Paretzky, and Kristina Brooks.
Saturday will be an evening of side-splitting staged readings with light blocking. Playwrights featured will include Dara Gold, Matt Spangler, and Jessica Bylander.
Both evenings contain adult humor, offensive language, off color jokes, and women in pearl clutching situations.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Comedy Undressed
September 23, 2016
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
We want to tickle your fancy and your funny bone! Join us as the Naked Girls read their favorite memoirs, tales, blogs and funny stories by the world’s most memorable jokesters! Cherokee Rose is in stitches to join GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling and our Special Guest, 2016 So You Wanna Be A Naked Girl Winner, for Naked Girls Reading Presents Comedy Undressed.
In Your Ear
September 18, 2016
$5 General/ FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an vantgarde tradition.
This month’s readings are from Mathias Svalina, Danielle Evennou, Temim Fructher, Angelique Palmer.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
House Comics
September 16, 2016
Online PreSale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre presents it’s monthly House Comics show and open mic. For more information, please visit: www.laughindextheatre.com
Tickets: http://lithousecomicsshow.bpt.me
How To…
Sex Education: 8 One Acts in 2 Weekends
September 16, September 17, September 23, September 24, 2016
$15 General/ $10 DCAC Members
Rabble Crew Productions flexes it tutorial muscles with an eclectic posse of DCbased playwrights, directors and actors. With four original shows per weekend, you’re sure to learn a lesson or two!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-sex-education-8-one-acts-in-2-weekends-tickets-27217456144
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
House Comics
September 16, October 7, November 18, December 16, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre presents it’s monthly House Comics show and open mic. For more information, please visit: www.laughindextheatre.com
Tickets: http://lithousecomicsshow.bpt.me/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
So You Wanna Be a Naked Girl
August 26, 2016
$25 Door/ $20 Pre-sale & DCAC Members
Have you always wondered how your Naked Girls do it? Ever daydreamed about joining Cherokee Rose & company in their fun? Wanna know what it’s like to sit onstage with your favorite book, displaying your (ahem) good literary taste to a crowd? Well, if you’re ready to give it your all while showing your all, now’s your chance!
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Three’s Comedy
August 24, September 7, September 21, October 5, October 19, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $5 General / $3 DCAC Members
Door: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre LIT knows the rules of comedy, and we’re bringing you the power of three. Three types of comedy. One Show. Come on, and knock at our door….
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Improv Wars
August 22, August 29, September 12, September 19, September 26, October 3, October 10, October 24, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre – LIT’s IMPROV WARS is a friendly competition among improv troupes representing all factions of improv within the DC area. The audience votes for the winner. Both audience members and performers should prepare to enter a surprise-filled combat-zone where ANYTHING goes. After all, this is war.
All matches, team stats, rules and all things IMPROV WARS can be found at the LIT website:
www.laughindextheatre.com
May the “yes and” be with you!
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Improv Wars
August 22, August 29, September 12, September 19, September 26, October 3, October 10, October 24, November 7, November 14, December 5, December 12, 2016
Online Pre-Sale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
Door: $15 General / $12 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre – LIT’s IMPROV WARS is a friendly competition among improv troupes representing all factions of improv within the DC area. The audience votes for the winner. Both audience members and performers should prepare to enter a surprise-filled combat-zone where ANYTHING goes. After all, this is war.
All matches, team stats, rules and all things IMPROV WARS can be found at the LIT website: www.laughindextheatre.com
May the “yes and” be with you!
Bad Medicine
August 20, 2016
$10 Door/ $8 DCAC Members
Bad Medicine is a sketch comedy group specializing in the dark, the cerebral, and the absurd. It has grown into one of the most eclectic sketch groups in the District featuring a cast of singers, lawyers, and students with the shared goal of writing the best sketch comedy about the worst of humanity. No side effects. No horse pills. No cures. This show’s special guest is comedian, Martin Amini.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Summer Blockbusters
July 22, 2016
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
The summer in DC is hot, Hot, HOT! And Naked Girls Reading Presents Summer Blockbusters has no intention of cooling you off. We are bringing you the best of the hits of the summer; scripts from movies, hot gossip, insider info on movie making and more. Civil War was amazing but the debate is always better when your DC Naked Girls are involved. Let us, help you; choose a side on July 22 nd, 10pm at the DC Arts Center. This month features returning special guest Natasha Nacre.
Press Play Hump Days
July 20, 2016
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with any form of flatulence-based humor. Seriously. This is not a joke. We keep track. Press Play has performed at venues across the country such as the LA Improv Festival, Steel Stacks, and the Del Close Marathon. We also perform regularly at improv theaters around DC, and once at a birthday party. The birthday boy threw cake.
Tickets: http://pressplaydcac.bpt.me/
Chinese Menu
July 11, 2016
$12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Chinese Menu on a Monday? In the summer? We know we said we were taking off until The Invitational in October but we couldn’t miss an opportunity to bring you a great show.
Why a Monday? Because a good part of the cast for this show is from the Second City touring company and they are in town looking to find some quality playtime. So here we are.
Some people joining our guests from Chicago include:
Mikael Johnson
Rich Nyman
Colin Murchie
Ceci de Robertis
Josh Kuderna
Pete Bergen
75 Lezbos, 2 Trannies, 1 Pannie, Me & Me Too!
A part of the 11th Annual Capital Fringe Festival July 7 31, 2016
July 8 & July 10, 2016
$17 General/ $15 for DCAC Members
*(If you have a Fringe button your ticket is $10 General / $8 Members)*
After experiencing tremendous pain and the unexpected loss of a love Me thought was forever, she turns to Me Too for understanding, meaning, and selfawareness in processing her grief to find new love.
Tickets: email info@dcartscenter.org or call 202-462-7833
Molotov Theatre Presents:
Blood, Sweat, & Fears:
A Grand Guignol Sick Carbaret
Translated from the French by Richard Hand and Michael Wilson
July 7 – July 31, 2016
$25 General / $20 DCAC Members
Get ready for some scary, campy, sexy fun from the turn of the 19th century, courtesy of the warped minds of D.C.’s Molotov Theatre Group.
Blood, Sweat & Fears: A Grand Guignol Sick Cabaret features English translations of three nearlyforgotten one-act plays from the Theatre du Grand Guignol, the influential style of French horror theater that was popular from the 1890s to the 1960s. (President Eisenhower was a patron!
Look it up!)
Stitched together by bawdy mistress of ceremonies Bella Donna, the production uses music, laugh and scares to take you back to a simpler time for the horror and suspense genre.
Director: Alex Zavistovich; Assistant Director: Elliott Kashner; Composer: Gregory Thomas Martin Lighting Designer: Pete Vargo; Costume Designer: Jesse Shipely; Set Designer: Mary Seng; Stage Manager: Sara Smith
Featuring: Jen Bevan, Zack BrewsterGeisz, Elizabeth Colandene, Katie Culligan, David Dieudonne, Brian Kraemer, Alex Miletich IV, Fabiolla Da Silva, Jennifer Restak, Mallory Shear, Annette Mooney Wasno, and Gray West
• This show will be featured as a case study in a textbook planned for 2017 on the Grand Guignol tradition, to be released by the University of Exeter Press.
• Parental discretion advised: May not be appropriate for some children under age 13.
• The running time is approximately one hour and 20 minutes, with no late admission and no readmission.
About the one-act plays in Blood, Sweat & Fears: A Grand Guignol Sick Cabaret:
The Lighthouse Keepers: A father and son, caring for a remote lighthouse, settle in for the long haul, with the next boat of provisions weeks away. Then one of the two reveals a secret that locks father and son in a struggle to the death.
Tics (or Doing the Deed) : A sex farce about a young couple visiting the country estate of a wealthy doctor and his wife. What the women don’t know is when things get hot, the men can’t keep from hiding signs of their arousal.
The Last Kiss: A young man, convalescing in a hospital after having been scarred by a jealous lover invites the woman to his room to make peace with her. As things progress, “peace” may not really be what he’s after.
Tickets: molotovtheatre.org
Steampunked Stories
June 24, 2016
$15 General / $10 DCAC Members
A multimedia storytelling of a group of people’s adventures on a time traveling airship, who journey to different periods in history and investigate various psychic phenomena. The stories are told by the author and his time machine, which emits intriguing sounds, laser beams, and fog during each time travel event. Now featuring the NUDIEKAZOO all girl band.
Audience: 18+
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/steampunked-stories-tickets-25895988599
In Your Ear
June 19, 2016
$5 General / FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month’s readings are from E.C. Belli, Brooke Ellsworth, K. Lorraine Graham, & Roberto Montes.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Summer Improv Medley
June 12 – June 19, 2016
$20 Door/ $15 DCAC Members + Presale
*(June 17th show: $10 Door/ $5 DCAC Members + Presale)*
Laugh Index’s “Summer Improv Medley 2016” is an improv festival showcasing the best blend of improv comedy you’ll find in DC. Summer Improv Medley consists of 26 shows, over 50 acts and 15 workshops.
See full schedule on www.laughindextheatre.com
Press Play Hump Days
May 18, June 22, 2016
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
It’s our second annual Red Nose Day charity comedy show! This year, help Press Play raise money for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Teens and Young Adults. Last year we raised over $770 for a local food bank. Help us raise even more, and help the Ulman fund help young folks diagnosed with cancer.
Nearly 70,000 young adults are diagnosed with cancer in the United States each year. The Ulman fund changes lives by creating a community of support for young adults, and their loved ones, impacted by cancer. Read more about the Ulman fund here: http://ulmanfund.org/
This is our line-up for this night of comedy for a cause:
*Comedy from O’Bernierama!
*Improv from Herringbone!
*Music from Tone!
*Stand up comedy from Phil Mike!
*Even more improv from your hosts Press Play!
Here is info about our performers!
O’Bernierama:
O’Bernierama is a comedic exploration into the political characters Bernie and Obama, performed by Press Player Matt Mansfield and Jose LopezSanchez. Jose has been performing improv comedy in the Washington D.C. area since 2013, and has been stuntin’ on everybody since 1993 (though he was born in 1987). Jose is a founding member of several independent troupes, including Middle Child and The Rock Creek Ramblers. Matt Mansfield is famous for being in Press Play, among other things.
Herringbone:
Herringbone is a DC indie team formed in February 2016 by two scientists, an investigator, and a teacher. They like to perform characterdriven, grounded, and energetic scenes that develop organically. Blasphemous and classy, sexy and profound, Herringbone keeps the audience on its toes. The two scientists are dating each other.
Music: Tone
Tone is an Artist, Songwriter, Activist, Washington DC Native, and Hip hop Caucus spoken person Make sure you stay on the look out for his New Project and Book coming this summer 2016. Thisistone.com
Instagram:aye_tone
Stand Up: Phil Mike
Phil Mike is a D.C. based comic who has been performing standup for the last year. His realizations on life and his racially ambiguous heritage have brought him to venues across the area, including The Big Hunt in Washington D.C., the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester and The Boneyard in Charlottesville.
Press Play:
Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with any form of flatulencebased humor. Seriously. This is not a joke. We keep track. Press Play has performed at venues across the country such as the LA Improv Festival, Steel Stacks, and the Del Close Marathon. We also perform regularly at improv theaters around DC, and
once at a birthday party. The birthday boy threw cake.
Tickets: http://pressplaydcac.bpt.me/
In Your Ear
May 15, 2016
$5 General / FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avantgarde tradition. This month features readings by Jen Tynes, Kelly Forsythe, and Michael Sikkema.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Chinese Menu
May 14, 2016
$12 General/ $10 DCAC Members
So long for now? Yup. Chinese Menu is going on an indefinite hiatus from its monthly all star mash up show so make sure you dont miss this installment. We are finishing strong with a powerhouse group from the DMV. We have some great DC players mashing up with some of the ladies of GUS (Baltimore Improv Group) and returning from Charlottesville is a Menu favorite. We even a cast member with a birthday!
Committed so far:
Denny Johnson
Mikael Johnson
Brigit Cavaiola
Kathryn Carlsen
Heather Moyer
Rachel Showalter
Joe Randazzo
Macey Schiff
Pete Bergen
(CAST SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Herstory
May 13, 2016
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
4 years ago, one courageous Naked Girl had a dream to bring seductiveness, sassiness and education to DC in the form of, Naked Girls Reading. Three other brazen Naked Girls joined her and the rest, as they say, is Herstory. Join us as we tell the tales of brave, scary and dauntless journeys to gain peace, joy and righteousness at Naked Girls Reading Presents Herstory, May 13th, 10pm at the DC Arts Center. The past has never been so alluring.
Washington Improv Theater Presents:
Road Show: Pandemonium
May 12 – June 11, 2016
$15 / $10 Members
As DC’s premier company for long-form improv, WIT’s ensembles make up the most experienced and skilled improvisers in the city. Spurred by a single audience suggestion, these creative performers spontaneously build entire worlds populated by colorful characters and situations. Each performance is a one-of-a-kind show, never to be seen by another audience.
Tickets: witdc.org
Press Play Hump Days
April 20, 2016
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play hosts and produces a monthly show featuring some of the best comedy, music, and storytelling acts in the area!
Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with any form of flatulence-based humor. Seriously. This is not a joke. We keep track. Press Play has performed at venues across the country such as the iO West Festival, Steel Stacks, and the Del Close Marathon. We also perform regularly at improv theaters around DC, and once at a birthday party. The birthday boy threw cake.
Dudes on Dudes:
Dudes on Dudes (DoD) is an independent longform improv troupe from Washington, DC. featuring: Ahmed Amonette, John Beck, Nicholas Boros, Charles Bowles, Anthony Cusumano, Phil Greene, Keegan Hines, and David Richman; coached by Xavier Padin. Members of the group met during their Harold class at Washington Improv Theater and have since worked together to master the Harold format and take over the comedy scene in DC. Members of DoD have also trained at DC Improv Comedy School, The Unified Scene Theater, Dojo Comedy and The Second City in Chicago.
Cake Bagel:
Cake Bagel is as whimsical as pink icing and as savory as smoked salmon. Or at least that’s what they tell themselves to justify their pre-show carbo-loading. Formed in 2012, the troupe has logged several years’ worth of shows around the Washington, D.C. area, including featured appearances at Washington Improv Theater’s Seasonal Disorder, Harold Night and road shows. Cake Bagel has also brought its glutenous goodness to the Del Close Marathon, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Baltimore Improv Festival, District Improv Festival and Chicago Improv Festival. Bold, character-driven and super-fun, a Cake Bagel show is like having your cake…and eating a bagel, too. Cake Bagel is Sophia Cai, Tim Hunt, Jordana Mishory, Richie Pepio and Julia Rocchi. The team is coached by Jonathan Murphy.
Jon Watkins and Porter Ryan:
2/3rds of The Bloody Onions, Porter Ryan and Jon Watkins join us tonight in the hopes of rocking our collective socks off with their musical stylings, ranging from blues to Irish to folk. Porter comes to us from the Palisades of DC, while Jon inhabits the sleepy borough of Kensington, MD.
Tickets: http://pressplaydcac.bpt.me/
In Your Ear
April 17, 2016
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avantgarde tradition.
April’s In Your Ear will be celebrating the recently released anthology, What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America.
A little about the book:
What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.
Several of the poets discussed in What I Say forged relationships with members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement and participated in the broader community of innovative poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and continues to exert a powerful influence today.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Chinese Menu
April 16, 2016
$12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Two old friends of Chinese Menu are coming to DC to mash up and do some ‘prov with the Menu. Terry Withers from the Upright Citizens Brigade and Patrick Gantz from the Richmond Comedy Collective will take the stage with the most fun, most talented and most dangerous improvisers in town.
Get on it early. These shows sell out quickly.
Theatre du Jour Presents:
To Have Done with the Judgement of God
By Antonin Artaud
April 15 – May 7, 2016
$20 / $15 DCAC Members
Theatre Du Jour brings unbridled spectacle to the small stage with Antonin Artaud’s 1947 radio play, To Have Done with The Judgement Of God. Written and produced for French Radio, the cacophonous rant against government and religion was shelved until after Artaud’s death. Using the play as a roadmap, this production utilizes sound, imagery, projections, and music to explore the author’s conviction of the futility of man’s relation to government, nature, God, and his body. Profane and irreverent, profound and funny, this performance fuels the debate of whether Artaud was a visionary or a madman, sublime or insane. Featuring Rachel Reed, Jerry Herbilla, Jacquelyn Paulin, and Annetta Dexter Sawyer. Directed by B. Stanley. Soundscapes by Nate Taylor and Rob Gould, sculptural costuming by Stephanie Williams.
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Pivotal Encounters:
3 One Act Plays About Family Surprises
April 9, April 10, 2016
$20 / $15 Members
Three unique stories that dig deep into the surprising ways your heart, mind and very existence are transformed by a drunk grandmother, long lost brother, and a mom who tries to find herself by being an internet sex kitten.
Tickets: call 2024627833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
More information: oneactsthisway.wix.com
April Fool’s Laughstravaganza:
Four Original Comedies
April 8, 2016
$18 / $15 Members
Winter is over… Let’s laugh!!! Join us for four short, original, sidesplitting comedies. What happens when four bros ponder the meaning of deep commitment? What shenanigans ensue in a lighthouse when a young stranger pops in for an unexpected visit? Who vandalized the saloon overnight and why? And what happens when a family just seems a little too perfect? It’ll be a show you won’t want to miss. See it once. See it twice. Bring a friend!
“The Last Rager” written by Andy De, directed by Rebecca Fischler
“On the Rocks” by written by Jenny Oberholtzer, directed by Patrick Miller
“A Fistful of Doilies” by written by Erica Smith, directed by Jenny Oberholtzer
“Family Circus” by written and directed by Michael Reilly
Tickets: thecoilproject.org
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Internets
April 8, 2016
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
You know it, you love it, and it’s made you partially blind, let us bring you the best of it we can find. From the hilarious to the disturbing, Naked Girls Reading presents the Internet! Cherokee Rose returns to the DC Arts Center with Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling, and GiGi Holliday at the DC Arts Center on April 8 th at 10pm.
Space in Comedy: Ladies’ Night
April 1, 2016
$15 / $10 Members
Looking for some April Fools Day jokes?
Come watch some of DC’s finest comedic talent! And the best part? This show is run and performed completely by women! Join the amazing comedian and host Stacey Axler on April 1st at 10:00pm at DCAC and explore the often underrepresented population of Women in Comedy! Who knows, maybe this will be your chance to see a future president or late night talk show host perform live on stage! Either way, this will be a magical experience not to be missed.
In Your Ear
March 20, 2016
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avantgarde tradition. This month brings readings from Rod Smith, Bettina Judd, and Carabella Sands.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Chinese Menu
March 19, 2016
$12 General/ $10 DCAC Members
This month Ryan Karels from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater is in town. The best improvisers in town will join the cast and mash up for the usual Menu awesomeness. Get your tickets now.
About Ryan:
Ryan Karels is the representative comedian for all of North Dakota (Huffington Post, 2011) and is a member of Grandma’s Ashes. Previous Harold Night teams were Decoster, Creep and Filth. Ryan is one of KROMPF. Past shows at the UCB include Radio Rogue, The Ol’ Factory, Intellectual Yoga, Your Favorite Thing, After School Super Power Hour, and The July 4. OffBroadway with Les Freres Corbusier he performed in Hell House, Heddatron, Boozy, and The Franklin Thesis and was in the original cast of Gutenberg, the Musical! On television he has portrayed well-liked characters such as Bernie the Hernie, Derek McGillicuddy, Ryan, Matt Yaegar (Meth Head), Hank, Dad, Guy with a Mullet, other Dads, and the Google Horseman.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Science Fiction
March 11, 2016
$25 General / $20 DCAC Members
By Grabthar’s Hammer, through time and space, in a galaxy far far away, to boldly go where no Naked Girl has gone before, join us for Naked Girls Reading presents Science Fiction. Cherokee Rose to the holodeck with Alice Darling, Cherie Sweetbottom and GiGi Holliday.
Freshly Squeezed
March 4 & March 5, 2016
$15 General/$12 for DCAC Members
Do you like laughter? Well this show is for you! In one hour, we will chuckle your belly about Oscars, droids taking over the world, and pronunciation mistakes. Who doesn’t think pronunciation mistakes aren’t not not funny?
Tickets: Freshly Squeezed
Laugh Index Theatre:
“All Work and Some Plays”
by The Employables
February 27, 2016
$15 / $12 Members
The Employables, a performance troupe comprised of the Theatre Lab’s 2015 Honors Conservatory graduates, are ready for work and employable as actors. They’ve written and will star in their first show!
In Your Ear
February 21, 2016
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month’s readings will be by Jay Deshpande, Tafisha Edwards, Natalie Infante, & Kevin Thurston.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Real Magic:
A Magic Show Benefitting N Street Village
February 21, February 28, 2016
$37 / $30 DCAC Members
AwardWinning Magician Danny Dubin invites guests to enjoy a unique blend of crisp sleight of hand and astonishing illusion, all in support of N Street Village. Live goldfish appear out of thin air, volunteers’ thoughts are predicted and borrowed objects mysteriously appear in random locations. Dubin believes that magic has the power to bring people together, and he is proud to present “Real Magic.”
Your $37 ticket provides 30 hot and nutritious meals to women in need at N Street Village. The added cost is a processing fee.
N Street Village empowers homeless and lowincome women to claim their highest quality of life by offering a broad spectrum of services and advocacy in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. The Village also provides affordable rental housing for low and moderateincome individuals and families.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-magic-a-magic-show-benefiting-n-street-village-tickets-20487417417
Chinese Menu
February 20, 2016
$12 General/ $10 DCAC Members
The February installment of Chinese Menu Comedy is coming up. These monthly improv shows are always fun. No troupes or teams, just a collection of the best players in DC and beyond mashing up for party in three acts.
The all stars this month:
Topher Bellavia
Mikael Johnson
Krish Mohan
Molly Murchie
Dave Johnson
Rich Nyman
Jordan Hirsch
Yuliya Malamud
Chris Ulrich
Yael Grant
Pete Bergen
Ken Hays
Tickets: http://febmenu.bpt.me/
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
i heart improv
February 19, February 20, February 26, 2016
$10 / $8 Members
Time to put away the high-calorie chocolates, mixed tapes and lame greeting cards. Steer clear of those once-you’ve-seen-one-you’ve-seen-them-all romantic comedies. This February, listen to your heart and its one true desire the desire to laugh hysterically. “i heart improv” will fulfill this desire and introduce you to a new passion, long-form improv comedy. The commitment is only for one night, but it’s a night you’ll always remember.
Press Play Hump Days
February 17, March 16, 2016
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play hosts and produces a monthly show featuring some of the best comedy, music, and storytelling acts in the area! Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with a fart joke. Seriously. That’s how committed Press Play is to the craft of long-form improv. The group performs in festivals around the country, theaters around DC, and once at a birthday party.
Tickets: http://pressplaydcac.bpt.me/
My Funny Valentine
February 14, 2016
$20 / $15 Members
My Funny Valentine Comedy Show (MFV) is a fun, entertaining, and refreshing standup comedy show featuring local comics in support of ending chronic homelessness in Washington, DC. This year’s show will mark the 6 th year running.
MFV comedy show is balanced with an array of comedic styles that is sure to capture the audience’s attention while leaving them laughing and craving for more! Each show is hosted by its creator, Adaylah Banks, while disc jockey, DJ KLa keeps the audience musically entertained between sets and throughout the show!
Check out this year’s lineup: Comedian Stiletto, Adaylah Banks, Mike “Ol Mike B” Brown, Rue D., Greg Stevens, and Tommy Taylor, Jr.
35% of the proceeds will benefit Miriam’s Kitchen
Tickets: http://adaylahbanks.com/tix
Tabla for Two:
New Music for the New Year
February 7, 2016
$20 General / $18 DCAC Members
Tabla for Two is a musical duo consisting of Masood Omari and Abigail Adams Greenway. Masood has created original compositions drawing from rich musical traditions, blending classical Eastern beats with Western style to produce a powerful fusion for the tabla and harmonium. Many who have heard this music describe it as mesmerizing, energizing and transcendental. It is without a doubt unique! Tabla for Two will be joined by Sofya Savkina, dancer, and Helen Burns, singer, for this performance.
Tickets: Email info@dcartscenter.org or call 202462-7833
In Your Ear
January 17, 2016
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Chinese Menu
January 16, 2016
$12 General / $10 DCAC Members
It is the first Menu show of 2016! The cast is still coming together but you know we always have at least one first timer. Early commits to this show include long overdue Eva Lewis and the exciting Tyler Laminack! Returning to the cast are Menu veterans Jaci Pulice, Bryan Jackson, Pete Bergen and Nick Murawski as well as Menu Hall Of Famer Mikael Johnson
The rest of the show is coming together but rest assured that Menu awesomeness will happen.
Tickets: http://janmenu.bpt.me/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Come into My Parlor
January 15, 2016
At the door: $25 General / $20 for DCAC Members and Presale
Join us as we start the year with our annual New Years tradition of salacious books, kinky authors and naked women. It was such a rousing good time last year we had to bring it back to ring in 2016. Come Into My Parlor features DC’s official Naked Girls: Cherokee Rose, Gigi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, and Alice Darling performing an aural assortment of Erotica to warm those chilly January bones. We invite you to join us at our home, the DC Arts Cetner, to kick off the New Year with sexiness, kinky tricks, lustful yearnings, and a salacious rendezvous or two, if you’re lucky, on January 15th at 10 pm.
Washington Improv Theater Presents:
Road Show!
January 14 – February 13, 2016
$15 General/ $10 for DCAC Members
As DC’s premier company for long-form improv, WIT’s ensembles make up the most experienced and skilled improvisers in the city. Spurred by a single audience suggestion, these creative performers spontaneously build entire worlds populated by colorful characters and situations. Each performance is a one-of-a-kind show, never to be seen by another audience.
Tickets: http://witdc.org/
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Three’s Comedy
January 13, January 27, February 3, February 10, March 2, March 9, April 6, April 13, May 4, May 11, 2016
$10 / $5 DCAC Members and Presale
LIT knows the rules of comedy, and we’re bringing you the power of three. Three types of comedy. One Show. Come on, and knock at our door….
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Improv Wars
January 11, January 18, January 25, February 1, February 8, February 15, February 22, February 29, March 7, March 14, March 21, April 4, April 11, April 18, April 25, May 2, May 9, May 16, May 23, 2016
$10 / $8 DCAC Members and Presale
Laugh Index Theatre LIT’s IMPROV WARS is a friendly competition among improv troupes representing all factions of improv within the DC area. The audience votes for the winner. Both audience members and performers should prepare to enter a surprisefilled combatzone where ANYTHING goes. After all, this is war. All matches, team stats, rules and all things IMPROV WARS can be found at the LIT website: www.laughindextheatre.com
May the “yes and” be with you!
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Improv Wars
January 11, January 18, January 25, February 1, February 8, February 15, February 22, February 29, March 7, March 14, March 21, April 4, April 11, April 18, April 25, May 2, May 9, May 16, May 23, 2016
$10 General / $8 DCAC Members and Pre-Sale
Laugh Index Theatre LIT’s IMPROV WARS is a friendly competition among improv troupes representing all factions of improv within the DC area. The audience votes for the winner. Both audience members and performers should prepare to enter a surprisefilled combatzone where ANYTHING goes. After all, this is war.
All matches, team stats, rules and all things IMPROV WARS can be found at the LIT website: www.laughindextheatre.com
May the “yes and” be with you!
The Best of:
The International Shorts Film Festival
January 9, 2016
$10 General / $7 DCAC Members
A comedic babysitting snafu out of Argentina, a bitter divorce drama from India, a violent outbreak in a West Texas roadside dive. Out of 500 cinematic shorts representing 70 countries, D.C.’s International Shorts Film Festival cherry-picked these as some of the best of the fest. Settle in for a two-hour screening of the top 10 and you’ll catch shorts like “Best of Festival Winner” Cuerdas, from Spain. This tender animated treat introduces you to a young school girl who makes a very special new friend. Shorts from Spain racked up “Best Comedy” and “Best Feature” awards as well, with Grown Ups and Sermon on the Mount, respectively. You’ll also see an unexpected “bump in the night” comedy from France, as well as charming animated tales from Germany and Ireland.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/best-of-the-international-shorts-film-festival-2015-tickets-19937165599
Steampunked Stories
January 6, 2016
$10 General / $7 DCAC Members
Steampunked Stories is a multimedia event about the adventures of a group of people on a time traveling airship, who journey to different periods in history and investigate various psychic phenomena. The stories are told by the author and his time machine, which emits strange sounds, laser beams, and fog during each time travel event. The series presented is an Action/Adventure Comedy with a twist of paranormal, and a touch of humor.
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/
The Eulogy
November 29, 2015
$15 General / $12 DCAC Members
See the awardwinning, soldout hit of the 2015 Capital Fringe, IndyFringe, Scranton Fringe, and Atlantic Fringe!
After an eight-city North American tour, The Eulogy returns to DC for one night only! This will be the last performance of The Eulogy for 2015 and the last performance in North America before the show heads to Australia.
Set at the funeral of “Thomas” — a man who, after a lifetime of gluttony, died from eating too many eggs — The Eulogy features a menagerie of characters whose inept and inapt speeches give anything but a proper homage. The only tears at this funeral will be from laughing.
Praise for The Eulogy:
“a comic gem” The Washington Post
“hilarious … deftly written” The Indianapolis Star
“a triumph” Washington City Paper
★★★★★ “insanely funny” NUVO
★★★★★ “brilliant” DC Theatre Scene
★★★★★ “magnificent” DC Metro Theater Arts
“outstanding” The Coast
“incredible” NEPA Scene
Ages 15+
Tickets: TheEulogyDCAC.brownpapertickets.com
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Get Lit
November 22, 2015
$5 General / $3 DCAC Members
GET LIT is Laugh Index Theatre’s student showcase. It will feature our standup students and Sara Armour. For more information, please visit: www.laughindextheatre.com
Tickets: http://getlit.bpt.me
Chinese Menu
November 21, 2015
$12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Chinese Menu invites you to our November show where we get in touch with what makes us great. Sure, we regularly bring in guests from other theaters but these shows started out as and remain a gathering place for the very best improvisers in DC.
The overwhelming majority of those players have spent time learning, teaching, or performing at Washington Improv Theater. The team here at Chinese Menu appreciates all they do.
How do we celebrate them? We bring back the team that, in our opinion, is on a short list of the best teams to ever come out of DC.
161!!!
Come out and join the cast:
Colin Murchie
Dave Johnson
Tyler Korba
Katie (Carson) Webster
Topher Bellavia
Mark Chalfant
Greer Smith
Mikael Johnson
Mike Bass
Catherine Deadman
The night will be kicked off by returning DC comic, Kay Marvin!
There will be revelry, pizza and beer next door after the show.
(cast and host subject to change)
Tickets: http://novmenu.bpt.me/
Press Play Hump Days:
Comedy Turducken Night
November 18, 2015
Presale: $10 General / $8 DCAC Members
At the door: $12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Press Play hosts and produces a monthly show featuring some of the best comedy, music, and storytelling acts in the area!
This month, Press Play is getting into the holiday spirit with our Comedy Turducken Night. It’s improv, stuffed into music, stuffed into standup, stuffed into imprpov! And unlike the poultry turducken, it’s safe for vegetarians. And we hope it will be way funnier though a turducken is pretty funny already, in a sick way.
Members of the DC Arts Center get $2 off each ticket. All audience members get $200 off a workplace improv workshop from Mindhatch (www.mindhatchllc.com)!
We’ll have real performances from some funny and talented people:
* Standup from Charles Lipper
* Improv from Middle Child Improv Troupe
* Music from AZTEC SUN
* Improv from Mighty Mighty School Project
* And more makeemups from your hosts, Press Play
Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with a fart joke. Seriously. That’s how committed Press Play is to the craft of longform improv. The group performs in festivals around the country, theaters around DC, and once at a birthday party.
Tickets: http://pressplaydcac.bpt.me/
In Your Ear
November 15, 2015
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month features readings by Sandy Florian, Justin Limoli, and Mel Nichols.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: http://www.dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Washington Improv Theater:
Seasonal Disorder
November 12 – November 14, November 19 – November 21, November 27 – November 28, 2015
$15 General / $10 DCAC Members
Embrace the chaos of the holidays! At Washington Improv Theater’s medley of unscripted shows, you never know what the performers will unwrap. From iMusical’s famous improvised musicals to the improvised romantic comedy Improv Actually, each show is full of wonderful surprises.
Tickets: http://witdc.org/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
A Night at the Movies
November 6, 2015
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
Who doesn’t love a good movie? Your Naked Girls are no different. But we are far fonder of the graphics, legends, and novels that brought them into existence. Bring your favorite movie night pal and join us for a Night at the Movies! Naked Girl style. Cherokee Rose, is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with the stunning starlets GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom Alice Darling and one of our most infamous Naked Girls guests of all time, 2014 So You Wanna Be A Naked Girl contestant, Michelle Carnes of The Eye.
Mikey Scott: Bad Choices
October 27, 2015
$15 / $10 DCAC Members
Mikey Scott, one of the original Queers of Comedy, has been seen on Oxygen’s “Funny Girl’s,” Showtime’s “2015 AVN Awards,” WE’s “Sex Box,” “Dante Presents: The Gay List” and, most recently, the movie “Bro, What Happened?”
Stepping away from his acclaimed weekly show, “The Mikey and Teddy Comedy Hour” in West Hollywood, Mikey brings to DC stories of his pursuit of love, fame and fortune and, well, all the wrong choices that have made for hilarious stories along the way.
Join him on a journey that will leave you with laughter in your heart and a pretty strong feeling you just might need to buy him a drink!
Press Play Hump Days
October 21, 2015
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with a fart joke. Seriously. That’s how committed Press Play is to the craft of longform improv. The group performs in festivals around the country, theaters around DC, and once at a birthday party.
Tickets: http://pressplaydcac.bpt.me/
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Improv Wars
October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9, November 16, 2015
$10 / $8 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre LIT’s IMPROV WARS is a friendly competition among improv troupes representing all factions of improv within the DC area. The audience votes for the winner. Both audience members and performers should prepare to enter a surprisefilled combatzone where ANYTHING goes. After all, this is war.
The first match of the 2015-16 season will be Monday, August 24th at 7:30 pm in Adams Morgan, where current Best Of IMPROV WARS champions, Door #3, will face of with Helper Pony.
NonMember tickets are twofor$15 or $10 online until 5 pm the day of the show, and $15, CASH ONLY, for a single ticket at the door.
All matches, team stats, rules and all things IMPROV WARS can be found at the LIT website: www.laughindextheatre.com
May the “yes and” be with you!
Tickets: www.laughindextheatre.com
In Your Ear
October 18, 2015
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Happy Buddha XX:
Last Call for Buddha
October 17, 2015
Presale: $10, Door: $15 / $8 DCAC Members/Military/Student
It’s been a wonderful ride, but the time has come to say goodbye! This will be our final non/Toys for Tots Buddha show, and there will be some great comedy for a great cause! A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Marine Corps Birthday Ball! Our awesome trio of troupes includes: The Lodge, Prettier Than You, and Dial M for Nasty! Don’t miss our bye-bye Buddha!
If you are not able to attend the show, but would still like to make a donation to the Marine Ball, you may do so via the ticket link.
Tickets: https://buddhatwenty.eventbrite.com/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Something Wicked
October 16, 2015
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
This October, DC’s Naked Girls Reading celebrates its fouryear anniversary with Naked Girls Reading Presents Something Wicked! Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with Cherie Sweetbottom, GiGi Holliday, Alice Darling and Special Guest, Lyra Valkyrie. The Naked Girls will scare the pants off you with tales to thrill and chill; disturb and perturb; tease, tantalize and terrify! This show will feature a costume contest judged by the Naked Girls themselves, so dress in your spooky best, and tarot card readings by the Bewitching Beauty, Cherokee Rose!
Molotov Theatre Presents:
Lovecraft:
Nightmare Suite
October 15 – November 8, 2015
$25 General / $20 DCAC Movie
A tribute to the godfather of modern horror, Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite presents a theatrical experience taken directly from H.P. Lovecraft’s stories, essays and poetry. Six strange tales of monsters, madmen and mayhem are brought to life.
Director: Jay D. Brock
Composer: Gregory Thomas Martin
Cast:
Storyteller/Old Man: Alex Zavistovich
Randolph/Young Man: Brian McDermott
Warren/Gentleman: Elliott Kashner
Narrator/Woman: Jen Bevan
Outsider/Landlady: Jennifer Restak
Box Office: 7:00 pm; Doors: 7:15 pm
Showtime: 7:30 pm
Run time: Approximately 85 minutes with no intermission
There will be no late seating.
Please plan to arrive at least an hour before show time to find parking in Adams Morgan.
Tickets: www.molotovtheatre.org
Chinese Menu Comedy
October 10, 2015
$12 / $10 DCAC Members
First it was Amey Goerlich. This time Tim Martin makes his return to DC! He will be joined by some of DC’s best including Greer Smith, Mikael Johnson, Tara Maher, Kate Symes, Chis Ulrich as well as some of his former team mates from “bright young things,” Joe Randazzo, Pete Bergen and Sir Shawn Westfall. This will also be the last Menu show for Hall of Famer Cara Hayes! She is headed off to Nairobi. Let’s make sure to come out and show her the love.
Tickets: http://octmenu.bpt.me/
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
A Comedy of Horrors
October 2, October 3, October 30, October 31
$15 General / $10 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre presents ‘A Comedy of Horrors’, a Halloween-themed comedy variety show that includes LIT’s stand-up comedians, improv and sketch teams. There are six shows, and the line-ups vary. You’ll have a wicked good time.
Tickets: http://laughindextheatre.com
Improv Spectacular
September 25, 2015
$12 General / $8 DCAC Members
An improv show benefiting the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Featuring a mega awesome line-up of local teams!
Current line-up:
Sandwich and the Jets
Ugh
Jukebox Heroes
and an awesome mashup team created specifically for this show!
The show begins at 7:30 PM and 100% of ticket sales will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com
In Your Ear
September 20, 2015
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More info at: http://dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Chinese Menu Comedy
September 19, 2015
$12 General / $10 DCAC Members
Amey Goerlich from the UCB Theater is in town to play with some of the best DC has to offer. Mark your calendars as Chinese Menu returns from its summer break. This show will also feature the Menu debuts of Dennis R. Johnson and Marianne Lalonde! Also, Chadd will be there and the show will open with his story.
Lots going on so this will be a hot ticket!
Also in the line up: Zak Roland, Greg Tindale, Kate Symes, Pete Bergen, Murphy McHugh, Ken Hays, Joe Uchno, Rich Nyman, Mikael Johnson
and more…..
(cast subject to change)
Tickets: http://septmenu.bpt.me/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Comedy Undressed
September 11, 2015
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
We want to tickle your fancy and your funny bone! Join us as the Naked Girls read their favorite memoirs, tales and funny stories by the world’s most memorable jokesters! Cherokee Rose is delighted to join Gigi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling and Special Guest, 2015 So You Wanna Be A Naked Girl Winner, Natasha Nacre, for Naked Girls Reading Presents Comedy Undressed
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Three’s Comedy
September 2, September 9, September 23, October 7, October 28, November 4, November 11, 2015
$10 General / $5 DCAC Members
Laugh Index Theatre LIT knows the rules of comedy, and we’re bringing you the power of three. Three types of comedy. One Show. Come on, and knock at our door….
You’ll see:
LIT’s House Comics (our resident standup/storytellers)
LIT’s Community Sauna (our shortform improv team)
and our newest longform improv team.
Nonmember tickets are $5 online before 5 pm the day of the show, and $10 CASH ONLY at the door.
Tickets: www.laughindextheatre.com
Laugh Index Theatre Presents:
Improv Wars
August 24, August 31, September 7, September 14, September 21, September 28, October 19, October 26, November 2, November 9, November 16, 2015
$10 / $8 DCAC Members and Presale
Laugh Index Theatre LIT’s IMPROV WARS is a friendly competition among improv troupes representing all factions of improv within the DC area. The audience votes for the winner. Both audience members and performers should prepare to enter a surprise-filled combat-zone where ANYTHING goes. After all, this is war.
The first match of the 201516 season will be Monday, August 24th at 7:30 pm in Adams Morgan, where current Best Of IMPROV WARS champions, Door #3, will face of with Helper Pony.
Non-Member tickets are two-for $15 or $10 online until 5 pm the day of the show, and $15, CASH ONLY, for a single ticket at the door.
All matches, team stats, rules and all things IMPROV WARS can be found at the LIT website: www.laughindextheatre.com
May the “yes and” be with you!
Tickets: www.laughindextheatre.com
Press Play Hump Days
August 19, 2015
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members, Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play’s monthly show returns with a super lineup: Standup from Dana Fleitman, Improv from DC favorite Jive Turkey, Music from Chase Willet, Improv from your hosts, Press Play
Laughs, music, and more laughs. Hope to see you at the show!
***Performer Bios***
Dana Fleitman is a Washington, D.C. comedienne who brings laughter to the joyless masses of our nation’s capital through her imaginative over-analysis of everyday life. Clever, sarcastic and generally awesome, Dana will merrily pontificate on groundbreaking and original topics like her cat, dating and eating. Dana comes from an activist and social justice background and is excited to lend her voice to less important issues. She has appeared at the DC Improv, Howard Theatre and the She Devil Comedy Festival.
Dallas native, Chase Willett, draws on dynamic vocals and penetrating lyrics to produce movingfolksongs.
JiveTurkey is one of DC’s oldest independent troupes, and since 2008 has been a unique blend of comedy spices blended together to create a mouthwatering taste for the senses. Though some might say they are just two idiots who get together and get their fast-paced brand of smart improv on when they’re not slaving away at the heels of their oppressive DC jobs for the MAN and to escape their sad little lives. That first thing sounds better though. Sounds like a gourmet pizza. Yeah, a pizza, let’s go with that. With nationwide performances, numerous festivals and over 25 comedy years between them,JiveTurkey stars Joe Randazzo (Sistine Robot, Madeline) and Chris Ulrich (King Bee, Nox).
Press Play was founded in 2010 and, not to brag or anything, has yet to have a show with a fart joke. Seriously. That’s how committed Press Play is to the craft of long-form improv. The group performs in festivals around the country, theaters around DC, and once at a birthday party.
Tickets: http://pressplaydcac.bpt.me/
Happy Buddha XIX: Georgia On My Mind
August 15, 2015
Presale: $10, Door: $15 / $8 DCAC Members/Military/Student
On August 15th, Buddha returns, and it will be a celebration, beeyatches! Our dear friend, the lovely
and talented Katie McDermott is departing for the Dirty South, and this show will be in her honor.
Currently slated to perform are: Hot & Sweaty, Fisticuffs, and,with members coming down from the
Big Apple for this very special occasion, Late Expectations! And, of course, we’re sending Ms. McD
back to the Dirty South with a killer, thriller mashup of her dear funny friends!
The Capital City Showcase
August 15, 2015
$10 General / $8 DCAC Members
The Capital City Showcase is the variety show featuring the best comedians, musicians, and performing artists in the DMV! For over four years, The Showcase has featured some of DC’s best stand-up comedians, improv comedians, storytellers, bands, acoustic performers, and hip-hop artists.
For tickets and info: www.capitalcityshowcase.com or call 202-431-4704.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
So You Wanna Be a Naked Girl
August 14, 2015
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
Do You Have What it Takes to Get Naked?
Have you always wondered how the ladies of Naked Girls Reading do it? Ever daydreamed about joining Cherokee Rose & company in their fun? Wanna know what it’s like to sit onstage with your favorite book, displaying your *ahem* good literary taste to a crowd? Well, fair contestants prepare to give your all while showing your all!
The lucky winner, chosen by YOUR votes, will join us as our very special guest for the September 2015, Funny Bone performance, and who knows? may be called upon for other, future shows.
BAD MEDICINE SKETCH SHOW
June 19 and July 25
Saturdays at 10 pm
$10 General/ $8 for Members
Bad Medicine is a DC-based sketch comedy group specializing in the dark, the cerebral, and the absurd. Though it has humble beginnings–conceived over a plate of tater tots and a few warm beers–Bad Medicine has quickly grown into one of the most eclectic sketch groups in the District and features a cast and crew trained by Second City, the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, Washington Improv Theater, The DC Improv, and DoJo Comedy. They are a group of singers, designers, lawyers, and students with the shared goal of writing the best sketch comedy about the worst of humanity. So please join Bad Medicine for the second ever Bad Medicine Show!
No side effects. No horse pills. Just comedy.
Featuring:
Stand up from Baltimore comedian Mike Moran
A character piece from DC improviser Kate Symes
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1900039
Press Play Hump Days
July 15, 2015
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play brings the comedic heat to your summertime goodness! Come out for a fantastic night of comedy!
Home Improv Mints (improv troupe)
Andre Cutair (musician)
Michael Scherzer (storyteller)
Press Play (longfrom improv) That’s us! One of DC’s longestrunning improv teams and frequent
festival performers brings the comedic heat! Well, comedic spring breeze. Comedic heat for our
summer shows.
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
We Can Do It
July 10, 2015
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
“You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” Join us as we share the stories of female empowerment both real and imagined, new and old, and what it really means to be female. The power is within us all and needs to be shared to grow. Cherokee Rose, is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with the Ferocious GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling and special guest Pria Puss!
Mark your calendars for August 14th at 10pm and the annual competition of Naked Girls Reading DC Presents: So You Wanna Be a Naked Girl. Where one lucky Lady will be chosen by YOUR votes to join us as our very special guest for the September 2015 show, and who knows? may be called upon for other, future shows.
Molotov Theatre Presents:
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
July 9 - August 2, 2015
$25 General / $20 DCAC Members
A psychologically addictive video game emulates players’ actual neighborhoods as the onscreen environment. Moving from one level to the next means destroying armies of zombies. But what does it mean for the neighbors who aren’t playing the game?
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom is directed by David Dieudonne and assistant directed by Elliott Kashner, with musical composition and sound design by Molotov stalwart Gregory Thomas Martin, lighting design by Pete Vargo, set design and projections by Rachel Marie Wallace, costumes by Jen Bevan, and fight choreography by Mallory Shear.
The ensemble cast comprises Jen Bevan, Yoni Gray, Brian Kraemer, Annette Mooney Wasno, and Molotov Artistic Director Alex Zavistovich.
In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parent find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game simulates the players’ actual neighborhood as the onscreen environment. Moving from one level to the next means destroying armies of zombies. But as the teens approach the Final House, the zombies start looking more and more like their parents.
*A WARNING FOR AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom contains adult language, realistic and hyperrealistic portrayals of violence, and strobe effects. Parents of children under 13 are cautioned.*
Tickets: http://molotovtheatre.org/
IN YOUR EAR
June 21
Sunday at 3 PM
$5 General/ FREE for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
THE CAPITAL CITY SHOWCASE
June 20
Saturday at 10 PM
$10 General / $8 DCAC Members
The Capital City Showcase is the variety show featuring the best comedians, musicians, and performing artists in the DMV! For over four years, The Showcase has featured some of DC’s best stand-up comedians, improv comedians, storytellers, bands, acoustic performers, and hip-hop artists.
For tickets and info: www.capitalcityshowcase.com or call 202-431-4704
Press Play Presents:
Hump Days
June 17
Wednesday at 7:30 PM
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play brings the comedic heat to your summertime goodness! Come out for a fantastic night of comedy!
Home Improv Mints (improv troupe)
Andre Cutair (musician)
Michael Scherzer (storyteller)
Press Play (longfrom improv) That’s us! One of DC’s longestrunning improv teams and frequent festival
performers brings the comedic heat! Well, comedic spring breeze. Comedic heat for our summer shows.
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1071265
Happy Buddha Presents:
The Last Roundup
Saturday at 10 PM
Presale: $10, Door: $15 / $8 DCAC Members/Military/Student
*Presale tickets (only available online) end at midnight the night before the event*
On December 7, 2013, JJ Jackson, John Heiser, Lura Barber, and I made our debut as Pony Poni Pone! in a Happy Buddha show at the DC Arts Center. We had an absolute blast, made each other double over with laughter, and called it an improv set, just because it was easier to call it that than “Having Fun With Friends In Front Of A Paying Audience”.
Over the next year and a half, we went on to have a riotous good time under the guise of putting on an improv show at Buddha shows, opening for ShawnMikael(s), Spring Medley Washington Improv Theater events, and, of course, in our own beloved sister city of Baltimore thanks to Charm City Comedy Project and Baltimore Improv Group. Lura left us amicably, the lovely and hilarious Deanna Price took her place, and we kept having a ball all the while. With the help of our incredible coach, Topher Bellavia, we developed a unique, patient, style that we enjoyed performing and people have seemed to enjoy watching. Of the many troupes I’ve been in over the years, 3P has easily been the most consistently funny and fun.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end; my troupemates are in demand these days as members of several of the best indie troupes in town, as well as in Washington Improv Theater Harold and house teams. As for your beloved Buddha, I am busy doing all of this adult stuff, getting my life act together, and making up of lost/wasted time both careerwise and personally. We’re all up to good stuff which keeps the four of us from practicing, and, with all due respect to my fellow Hoya Allen Iverson, we gotta practice. And we just don’t have the time, so, with great sadness, we have decided that we will no longer perform as just 3P, though we will still invite our buddies to join us as Ponies and Friends! We love playing with each other, but if we’re going to do it, we want to do it right, for us and for you, our audience. June 13th at 10 PM will be our last show, and we will be joined by some very special guests, including @Richmond Coalition Theater House team The Johnsons, local indie superstars Press Play, and veteran standup Wayne Manigo. It’s the last roundup for 3P, and we hope you’ll come and join us.
Tickets: https://junebuddha.eventbrite.com/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
THE 3RD ANNUAL NERDETTES
June 12
Friday at 10 PM
At the door: $25 General / $25 DCAC Members and Presale
The Nerds have inherited the earth. Long live the Nerds! On the heels of Awesome Con, Naked Girls Reading Presents: The 3rd Annual Nerdettes. To prove yet again, without a doubt, nerds are sexy. Naked Girls Reading is bringing high class to nerd culture favorites like Mutants, Caped Crusaders and The Doctor. Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to DCAC with the Nerdalicious Gigi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom, Alice Darling and special guest the Porcelain Provocateur Lucy Flawless of Chicago. Dress in your best Nerd themed costume for our Nerdettes costume contest!
Tickets: http://nakedgirlsreadingnerds3.bpt.me/
STEAMPUNK STORIES
June 7
Sunday at 7:30 pm
$10 / $7 DCAC Members
Steampunk Stories is a series of five short stories about the adventures of a group of four people on an airship, with a time travel device, that journey to different periods in history to investigate various psychic phenomena. Raconteur Tom Howell will deliver his amazing tales of travels back in time onboard the airship Flying Capricorn. Actual hysterical characters such as Ratko, Aleistar Crowley, Nostradamus, Tesla, and Edgar Cayce will come to life before your eyes.
Tickets: 2024627833 or info@dcartscenter.org
WASHINGTON IMPROV THEATER PRESENTS:
SUMMER LOVE
Fridays and Saturdays
June 56 at 7:30 / 10 pm
June 1213, 1920 at 7:30 pm
June 2627 at 7:30 / 10 pm
$12 (online) $15 (door) / $8 Members
As DC’s premier company for longform improv, WIT’s ensembles make up the most experienced and skilled improvisers in the city. Spurred by a single audience suggestion, these creative performers spontaneously build entire worlds populated by colorful characters and situations. Each performance is a one-of-a-kind show, never to be seen by another audience.
Tickets: www.witdc.org
ACT DC Black Pride Weekend LGBTQ Theater Showcase:
Good Hope Road
May 24, 2015
$15 / $12 DCAC Members
Inspired by the very first DC Black Gay Pride Weekend observance in 1991, nearly every Pride weekend since then, AfricanAmerican Theater (ACT) has presented its own “DC Black Pride LGBTQ Theater Showcase.” This annual spring event consists of two performances of readings of new plays written and directed by ACT Founding Artistic Director, Alan Sharpe.
OUR CAST
Monte J. Wolfe, Jeremy Keith Hunter, Tristan Phillip Hewitt
Juan Raheem, Michael SainteAndress, Donald Burch III, Jason Crews
Gregory Ford, Justin Fair, Reginald Richard, Raquis Da’Juan Petree
TICKETS
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In Your Ear
May 17, 2015
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This month’s In Your Ear includes Tina Darragh and M. Mack.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously supported by Bridge Street Books.
Chinese Menu
May 16, 2015
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Mixing up the format was a huge hit last month. We add a new wrinkle by featuring two existing teams for the May show. The Haddington Club is one of DC’s newest teams. It brings together old friends who have populated some of the best teams from the indie scene and Washington Improv Theater.
Cara Hayes – Season Six
Joe Uchno – The Score, Jackie
Kate Symes – Commonwealth, Sistine Robot, The Score
Nick Murawski – Whiskey Rebellion (IO Harold team)
Pete Bergen – The Score
Topher Bellavia – 161, Topher and Joe
Rich Nyman – Jackie
Catherine Deadman – 161, Musical, Be Our Guests
Dave Johnson – 161
They will be joined by Haggis: Mikael Johnson and Murphy McHugh
At the end of the show, both groups will mash up Menu style.
Tickets: http://maymenu.bpt.me/
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Ladies Choice
May 15, 2015
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
What would your Naked Girls read if the world of literature was theirs to choose? In the past three years Naked Girls Reading has brought you the best of fantasy, erotica, comedy, horror and everything in between. They’ve made you laugh, cry, squeal with delight and squirm with desire. Aren’t you curious what “Ladies Choice” will bring you next? Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to the DC Arts Center with the lovely Cherie Sweetbottom, Gigi Holliday and Alice Darling to entertain, seduce and even educate you May 15th at 10pm.
The Capital City Showcase
May 9
Saturday at 10 pm
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
The Capital City Showcase is the variety show featuring the best comedians, musicians, and performing artists in the DMV! For over four years, The Showcase has featured some of DC’s best stand-up comedians, improv comedians, storytellers, bands, acoustic performers, and hip-hop artists.
Tickets: capitalcityshowcase.com
Happy Buddha XVII: Springtime for Buddha
Pre-sale: $10, Door: $15 / $8 DCAC Members/Military/Student
Tickets: https://maybuddha.eventbrite.com/
For May, Happy Buddha Brings the May Funny with two nights of comedic delights, featuring Magnet Theater’s Rick Andrews playing along with your local favorites.
Fifty Shades of Black Mayonnaise
May 3, 2015
$20 General/ $15 for Members
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com
Lose yourself in the hilarious world of comedian Greg Stevens aka “Black Mayonnaise”! On Sunday, May 3rd he presents his unique and always creative thoughts on family, relationships, pop culture and everyday life. This will also be a live DVD taping! Hosted by Comedian Mike Brown, and featuring the hot upcoming comics Rue D and Adayalah Banks. This will not be an ordinary comedy show…it will be an experience! (Be early for surprise pre-show festivities!)
Tabla for Two Presents:
Under the Moon
May 1, 2017
$20 / $18 DCAC Members
Tickets: info@dcartscenter.org or call 202-462-7833
Tabla for Two is a musical duo consisting of Masood Omari and Abigail Adams Greenway. Masood has created original compositions drawing from rich musical traditions, blending classical Eastern beats with Western style to produce a powerful fusion for the tabla and harmonium. Many who have heard this music describe it as mesmerizing, energizing and transcendental. It is without a doubt unique! They will be joined by guest artists Sofya Savkina, dancer, and Helen Burns, singer.
Just Moxie
$10 / $8 DCAC Members
Tickets: info@dcartscenter.org or 202-462-7833
Join us for a night of long-form improv featuring local, independent troupes, hosted by Just Moxie!
In Your Ear
April 19, 2015
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition.
Curated by Buck Downs and Maureen Thorsen.
This month’s In Your Ear features Adam Chiles, Morgan Parker, Joshua Poteat, and Allison Titus.
More information: dcpoetry.com/iye
In Your Ear poetry series is generously sponsored by Bridge Street Books.
Chinese Menu
April 18, 2015
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Chinese Menu is back and we are mixing it up. For this show we will have some talented story tellers do their thing and then a collection of Menu players will improvise sets based on what they heard. Your story tellers for this event are the amazing Shawn Westfall and, returning from New York is former WIT player and coach, film maker and all around artist, Mark Pagan. Both of these performers will take part in improvising the other’s story.
Also joining the cast for this show is (so far):
Xavier Padin
Greg Tindale
Liz Sanders
Dan Miller
Pete Bergen
Chris Ulrich
Jaci Pulice
Greer Smith
(cast subject to change)
Tickets: http://aprilmenu.bpt.me
Naked Girls Reading Presents:
Music in the Buff
April 17, 2015
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
What does a Naked Girl love as much as a good book? A great piece of music. Even better, great lyrics, stories about great musicians and how they got there. Join us as we celebrate Naked Girl Readings DC’s, Wonder Twins, GiGi Holliday and Cherie Sweetbottom’s, birthday month, with Music in the Buff. Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to DCAC with the lovely GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom and Alice Darling to entertain, seduce and even educate you.
Happy Buddha XVII: The Return
April 11, 2015
$12 (online) $15 (at the door)/ $10 DCAC Members
Featuring:
Improv from nationally-renowned improv duo: The Amie and Kristen/Kristen and Amie Show
Baltimore’s Gus
Pony! Poni! Pone!
Standup from some of the DC area’s finest!
They’re baaaaack! The Amie and Kristen Show returns to DC on April 11th, for some fabulous late night fun! Amie Roe and Kristen Schier, best friends, total babes, and awesome sauce improvisers have left local audiences in hysterics at both of the District Improv festivals and Happy Buddha, and they’re coming ’round again for what is sure to be an amazing show, and offering brand spanking new workshops for the people in the bargain!
Joining these amazing ladies are the splendiforous improvisational pride of Charm City, GUS, and two love-sexy laugh-inducing DC troupes, Pony Poni Pone (I happen to know for a fact that one of their members has been voted ‘Sexiest Buddha in the DMV’ five times running.) and Mount Lincoln’s Beard! Our host for the evening’s festivities is the hilarious Tim D. Miller!
Press Play Hump Days
Spring Cleaning
April 8, 2015
Presale: $10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Door: $12 General/$10 DCAC Members
Press Play brings the comedic heat to your springtime goodness!
Come out for a fantastic night of comedy!
Michael Burgos(oneman play) Michael Burgos is an internationally acclaimed writer and performer. He holds a Diplôme from École Philippe Gaulier (Paris, France) and a B.A. in Theater from George Mason University, where he received the Chris Parsons Acting Award, the Greenspring Players Scholarship, and the Outstanding Achievement in the Major Award. In addition to studying with theater guru Philippe Gaulier, Michael trained with master teacher Dody DiSanto, a teaching protégé of the late Jacques Lecoq. Michael is a graduate of Washington Improv Theater’s Training Program and has studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York. While at George Mason University, he was one of the founding members of the university’s improv troupe, the Mason Improv Association. He has taught theater with Acting for Young People since 2010 and has written and directed over twenty short plays for children. Michael also holds a B.M. from Berklee College of Music and has toured with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.
Cake Bagel(improv) Cake Bagel is as whimsical as pink icing and as savory as smoked salmon. Or at least that’s what we tell ourselves to justify our pre-show carbo-loading. Formed in 2012, the troupe has logged more than two years’ worth of shows around the Washington, D.C. area, including featured appearances at Washington Improv Theater’s Seasonlal Disorder, Binge, Improvapalooza and Road Show runs. Cake Bagel has also brought its glutenous goodness to the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, the Chicago Improv Festival and the Del Close Marathon. Bold, character-driven and super-fun, a Cake Bagel show is like having your cake… and eating a bagel, too.
be E.A.S.Y dance(dance troupe)
Press Play(long-form improv) That’s us! One of DC’s longest-running improv teams and frequent festival performers brings the comedic heat! Well, comedic spring breeze. Comedic heat for our summer shows.
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1071265
*DCAC member? Email info@dcartscenter.org for discount code
Molotov Theatre Presents:
The Margins
April 2 – 26, 2015
$25 / $20 DCAC Members
Fresh from its soldout, Helen Hayes Award nominated production of “Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe” comes Molotov’s chilling production of “The Margins” by David Skeele. Loosely based on the true story of The Philip Experiment in Toronto in the 1970s, five paranormal investigators and a skeptical reporter visit a haunted manor to create and raise a spirit as a psychic experiment – until that experiment goes horribly better than they imagined.
Tickets: www.molotovtheatre.org
Chinese Menu
March 21, 2015
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Simply the best improvisational comedy in DC.One of the best things about Menu shows is
that they allow for old friends to come back and visit. This month we welcome back three of
our favorites. Emlyn Mcfarlad, Mike McFarland and Taylor Durant will be in town for one night
to whoop it up with some old friends.
The cast is coming together nicely:
-Taylor
– Mike
– Emlyn
– Nick Murawski
– Rich Nyman
– Topher Bellavia
– Chris Ulrich
– Cara Hayes
– Catherine Deadman
– Pete Bergen
– Joe Uchno
– Kate Symes
Tickets: marchmenu.bpt.me/
IN YOUR EAR
March 15
Sunday at 3 PM
$5 General/ Free for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avantgarde tradition. Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
NAKED GIRLS READING PRESENTS:
FANTASY
March 13
Friday at 10 PM
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members and Presale
The Naked Girls of DC explore the mystical realms of fantasy in the month of March. Will we be the Mother’s of Dragons, The Queens of Fairy or rule a realm both Muggle and Wizard alike? Join us, faithful squires, through journeys far and wide starting at our home the DC Arts Center on an epic the Bards will sing for ages to come. Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to DCAC with the lovely GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom and Alice Darling to entertain, seduce and even educate you.
Tickets: www.nakedgirlsreadingfantasy.bpt.me
Press Play Presents:
Hump Days: St. Patrick’s Day Edition
March 11
Wednesday at 7:30 PM
$10 General/ $8 for DCAC Members
All audience members get 15% off a workplace improv workshop from Mindhatch (www.mindhatchllc.com)! Not only is Press Play’s St. Patrick’s Day themed show featuring some of the best comedy, music, and storytelling in DC, but we’re also giving everyone attending the show a gift. What is that gift? The gift of laughter. Wait, there’s a second gift!
Everyone coming to the Wed. March 11 show gets a scratch-off lottery ticket. We’re going to scratch them off together all at once, creating a collective stew of hope, joy, and let’s be honest, probably mild disappointment. But mostly hope and joy.
Can we guarantee you’ll win money? No. But we can guarantee a fun time.
Our Luck-Filled Lineup:
DEREK HILLS is a storyteller from Washington, DC and performs regularly with local heavyweights SpeakeasyDC and Story League. His first solo show “No Sex, Please” debuted recently at the Capital Fringe Festival. He’s now working on a new one-act comedy called “Prison Break,” which satirizes America’s extreme sports culture and will premiere in Fall 2015.
ALEX ESPINOZA is a native DC stand up comic that has been doing comedy for 5 years. He’s also written for a local sketch comedy group, and thinks CVS receipts are ridiculously long.
UNTIL ONE DAY: Once upon a time a group of improvisers decided to start a troupe. Every two weeks they practiced narrative scenes and storytelling. Until one day they played with Press Play
FINLEY MARTIN is a Canadianborn singer songwriter whose songs blend his celtic roots with the DIY attitude of DC’s postpunk scene. You can learn more about him at www.finleymartinmusic.com.
PRESS PLAY (longform improv): That’s us! One of DC’s longestrunning improv teams and frequent festival performers brings the comedic heat! Well, comedic spring breeze. Comedic heat for our summer shows.
Tickets: www.pressplaydcac.brownpapertickets.com
HAPPY BUDDHA PRESENTS:
Birthday Buddha
March 6 - 7
Fridays and Saturday at 10 PM
$12 (online) $15 (at the door)/ $10 DCAC Members
Friday, March 6
*Cake Bagell (Jordana Mishory, Sophia Cai, Isabel Galbraith, Tim Hunt,J ulia Rocchi, Richie Pepio)
* Pony Poni Pone (Me, JJ Jackson, John Heiser, Deanna Price)
* New York City’s The Raving Jaynes - Amy Larimer & Jamie Graham
* Buddha Sings with Gabe Peyton of GSharp!
* Finley Martin
Saturday, March 7
* Ponies and Friends
* Buddha and Master Yoda (Jeff Jeff Hughes, Topher Bellavia)
* Baltimore’s Evan the Loyal
* Richmond’s Pack (Nick Leveski and Patrick Gantz)
* Cherie Sweetbottom
Tickets: https://birthdaybuddha.eventbrite.com/
Theatre du Jour Presents:
THE MAD: A FRACKING FAIRYTALE
March 6-21
Thursdays through Sundays at 7:30 pm
$20/$15 DCAC Members
It’s a tragedy for the future of humankind when big business and oil prospectors team up with a devious scheme to swindle Miss Amelia, the spinster proprietress of the Café Se Si Bon, out of her beloved café to get to the oil they believe is right under their feet. A believer in the beauty of life and the goodness of people, she is caught unaware of the very real possibility of oil derricks all around her. As her friends attempt to explain diagonal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to her she devises a plan to stop the culprits and punish them for their greed. But does she have the right to do it? Only a conference of her eccentric spinster friends can settle the matter for sure. Absurdity and hilarity ensue as this motley crew sets their sights to save humanity and punish the wicked.
Featuring Rachel Reed, Jerry Herbilla, Annetta Dexter Sawyer , Bettina Stap, Jonathan Frye,
Kathryn Winkler, Raffaela Perra O’Neill, Shawn Jain, Casey Leffue, and David Berkenbilt
Adapted and Directed by B. Stanley
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1252961
Bare: A Pop Opera
February 19 – 22, February 26 – 28, March 1, 2015
$22 General/ $18 DCAC Members
Book by JON HARTMERE and DAMON INTRABARTOLO
Music by DAMON INTRABARTOLO
Lyrics by JON HARTMERE
Directed, Produced, Choreographed, and Designed By: Derek Critzer
Musical Direction By: Brandon Heishman
“Bare: a pop opera”, is a moving story about teens searching to find themselves, no matter what environments may oppress their individualities, and the consequences that can be involved when people are forced to be who they are not. Like Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winninghit “Doubt”, “bare” challenges religion and the values it instills.
In their senior year at St. Cecelia’s Catholic High School, several students seek to identify themselves and express their true personas despite their faiths and the social stigmas that surround them. Main characters Peter and Jason struggle to come to terms with opposing ideals of their own homosexual relationship in the views of their personal connections, but more importantly in the face of the Catholic Church, which ultimately serves as the play’s main antagonist. Meanwhile, other students are desperate to calm the tempests of their own situations—from rejection, to lost loves, to loneliness and confusion, “bare” seeks to exemplify all those who break the mold and do not fit the conventional standards of society.
Tickets: www.clandestinedc.com
5th Annual My Funny Valentine Comedy Show with Sampson McCormick
February 15, 2015
$20 General/ $15 for Members
Featuring:Sampson McCormick, Greg Stevens, Tommy Taylor, Jr., Mike “OlMikeB” Brown, Rue D., and your host, Adaylah Banks. A portion of the proceeds from this show will benefit MIRIAM’S KITCHEN.
Miriam’s Kitchen (MK), a non-profit organization located in Washington, DC, is committed to ending chronic homelessness in DC by creating meaningful connections with chronically homeless individuals, placing them in permanent supportive housing, and ensuring they have the necessary support to remain in housing. MK advocates for permanent supportive housing as a long-term solution, while meeting short-term needs by providing healthy meals and high-quality social services to more than 3,500 chronically homeless individuals each year. Please join us. We can’t end chronic homelessness in DC without you.
Tickets: http://adaylahbanks.com/mfv_tickets
In Your Ear
February 15, 2015
$5 General / FREE DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. This Sunday’s performance features Buck Downs, Heather Fuller, and Ryan Walker.
Curated by Meg Ronan and Tony Mancus.
More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
NAKED GIRLS READING PRESENTS:
EROTICA
Friday January 9 at 10 PM
At the door: $25 General/ $20 DCAC Members
Start the year with our annual New Year Tradition, Naked Girls Reading Presents for your aural and visual delight and assortment of Erotica to warm those chilly January bones. We invite you to join us at our home, the DC Arts Center, to kick off 2015 with sexiness. Naked Girls Reading Presents Erotica will showcase tales of kinky tricks, lustful yearnings and a salacious rendezvous or two, if you’re lucky. Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to DCAC with the lovely GiGi Holliday, Cheri Sweetbottom, and Alice Dalring to entertain, seduce and even educate you.
Tickets: www.nakedgirlsreadingerotica2015.bpt.me
Happy Buddha XIII: Buddha Brings Toys for Tots!
December 19
Friday at 7:30pm and 10pm
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
After two months away doing various cool things, Buddha’s back, and he’s got Trike with him! The Happy Buddha show returns to it’s Adams Morgan home at DCAC, and we’ve got an allstar line up for you featuring New York City’s premier improv duo, Trike. The New York Times has called them “consistently complex, imaginative, improv” that is “reliably one of the best improv performances in
the city.” Come see them as well as some of the best local improvisers and standup comedians, in what is sure to be a most fun and hilarious Happy Buddha night! About Trike: Peter McNerney and Nick Kanellis make up the two halves of New York City’s premier improv duo Trike. Trike has been blowing minds with their unique brand of seamless, highenergy, multicharacter improv shows since 2007. The New York Times calls Trike, “consistently complex, imaginative improv,” that is “reliably one of the best improv performances in the city.” Splitsider.com says that Trike’s “fantastic late night show is upbeat and impressively layered improv that is always worth checking out,” and in the “Splitsider Guide to NYC Comedy Scene”, Trike was named one of eight “Best Weekly Shows.” TimeOut New York declares Trike a “Critic’s Pick” that “melds playful
physical transformation and careful scene work in a weekly show that delivers an impressively quick and detailed overlap of events in its conclusion.”
Tickets: https://buddhashow.eventbrite.com
Improv with Just Moxie and Friends
December 5 and 12
Fridays at 10pm
$12 General/ $10 DCAC Members
Join us for a night of longform improv featuring local, independent troupes.
Hosted by Just Moxie.
Tickets: 2024627833 or info@dcartscenter.org
An Evening with Separate Beds
December 3
Wednesday at 7:30 PM
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Intimate but not intrusive. A shoulder to cry on, but not an arm wrapped tight around your waist. We’re the best relationship you’ve ever had.
Welcome to our bedroom — it’s a safe space. Separate Beds invites a local DC celebrity to an interview with them. After that Separate Beds performs a 45-minute improvised comedy show based on that interview.
One guest. One magical evening with Separate Beds.
In Your Ear
November 16
Sunday at 3 PM
$5 General/ Free for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Buck Downs. More information at: dcpoetry.com/iye
Tickets: call 202 462 7833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
Life and Times of Ol Mike B
October 19
Sunday at 7:30 PM
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Local stand-up comedian and radio host Mike Brown invites you to experience “The Life & Times of Ol Mike B” .
Featured guests include the cast of “The Open Mike” radio show
Washington Improv Theater presents HOWL
October 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31
Friday & Saturday at 7:30 & 10 PM
$15 General/ $12 DCAC Members
Sweaty palms, accelerated heartbeats: this October, WIT is redefining “stage fright.” Every Washington Improv Theater show is a spontaneous, one-time-only event. There’s no telling what dangers will pop out of the dark, since none of the performers on stage have a script. This run features the improvised slasher film Die! Die! Die! and a witches brew of Halloween concoctions from WIT’s company ensembles and guest troupes from across the District.
Tickets: washingtonimprovtheater.com
In Your Ear
September 21, 2014
Sunday at 3 PM
$5 General/ Free DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features reading and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Curated by Buck Downs. Jen Coleman’s book, “Psalms for Dogs and Sorcerers,” was released from Trembling Pillow Press in 2013. Previously from MN and then DC and then NYC, Jen now lives in Portland, OR. She co-curates the Spare Room reading collective. Sue Landers is the author of 248 mgs., a panic picnic (O Books, 2003); Covers (O Books, 2007); 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style (Least Weasel, 2011); and What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook (Perfect Lovers, 2013) . Her latest project, Franklinstein, is a collection of poems that draws from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and The Making of Americans to tell the story of one Philadelphia neighborhood. She blogs at susanlanders.tumblr.com. Betsy Andrews’s latest book of poetry is The Bottom (42 Miles Press). She is the Executive Editor of Saveur magazine (www.saveur.com). For more info, please visit dcpoetry.com/iye
Tickets: call (202) 462-7833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
Improv with Just Moxie & Friends
September 12 & 19
Friday at 10pm
$12 General/ $10 DCAC Members
Come join us for a night of longform improv featuring local, independent troupes, hosted by Just Moxie.
Tickets: (202) 462-7833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
Naked Girls Reading Presents: Our Funny Bone
July 25
Friday at 10pm
$25 General/ $20 DCAC Members
Love comedy clubs, standup specials and Pandora comedy? Then do we have a show for you. Get ready to laugh as your DC Naked Girls read their favorite memoirs, tales and funny stories by the world’s most memorable
Jokesters. Featuring Special Guest Clarie Voltaire from Portland!
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
The Fuzz Ups
July 12
Saturday at 10pm
$10 at the door/ $7 online / $6 DCAC Members
The Fuzz Ups are DC’s only longform improv comedy troupe comprised entirely of puppets. Spend the
evening with Remy, Pete, and Gil for a night of unforgettable puppet prov. They’re joined by improv troupe, Barely Runicble, who were the Washington Improv Theater’s champions of the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament. The maestro for the evening will be one of Baltimore’s most talented standup comics, Josh Kuderna.
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Happy Buddha X: Philadelphia Freedom
July 11
Friday at 10pm
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Philly Improv Theater stalwart Alex Gross comes to DC with his duo Something Simple with Alex and Frank, and the riotous Demonikus Rex, and to teach a workshop. The Happy Buddha is pleased to host their July stop, and we’ve
added some local flavors to this comedic menu with Just Moxie and Schroeder! (Kate Symes, Jon Chesbro, Matt Berman) Plus a little music from singing-songwriting duo Evan and Ross.
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Happy Buddha IX: Improv from ‘Sconin
July 10
Thursday at 10pm
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
Glassworks (glassworksimprov.com) are a trio that has been peforming together since grade school… This is before it was called “improv”, back when it was just called, “messing around” or “inventing games” or “using the limitless power of the imagination to create whole worlds and people and stories.” It was just what they did. In a lot of ways it is what they still do. They took workshops with some of the Second City bigwigs, shared the stage with touring rock bands, and even built a theater in their basement that now features not only other improv groups, but
touring bands as well. Like those bands, they’ve now gone out on tour; they’ll make stops in Minneapolis, Detroit, Boston, New York, Philly, Richmond, and, of course, DC, where they’ll be staging a very special Thursday night show!
Along with these three likely lads, local legends The Score will take the stage to make instantaneous comedy
magic from the songs on your mp3 player, the Buddha will lead the people in Dances for Candy, plus more comedic
delights from Hot Meat Sandwich.
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Happy Buddha
June 27 & 28
Friday & Saturday at 10pm
$5 advance/$10 door for Fri. 27th show
$10 advance/$15 door for Sat. 28th show
Friday: Improv from The Carmichaels, Aboulia!, Country Music All-Stars, and local legends Topher Bellavia and Dave Johnson! Plus, you’ll get to dance for candy with the Buddha! Saturday: Improv from Frederick MD’s Ponch and The Word of God, standup from Jamal Newman, music from singer-songwriters Brandon Walker and Margot MacDonald, and who knows what else?
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
GAYLE Live
June 23 at 7:30 & 9:30 PM
$15 General/ $12 DCAC Members
GAYLE Live is a 2-person comedy show based on a web series that features a very strong subrurban woman named
Gayle Waters-Waters and her teenage daughter, Terry Gross Waters-Waters. Written by Chris Fleming and directed by Melissa Strype, the web series “Gayle” has been named one of the top 10 YouTubers by Buzzfeed. The Huffington Post boasts: “If you’re weird, you’ll fall in mad, deep love with GAYLE.” Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Naked Girls Reading Presents: Neil Gaiman
June 21
Saturday at 10pm
$25 General/ $20 DCAC Members
Sandman, Neverwhere, Fragile Things, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Do those words bring excitement to your very being? Then this is the show for you! Don’t know those titles yet? Then come and find out about this amazing literary and film sensation. We can never get enough of Neil Gaiman, so Naked Girls Reading dedicates the month of June to the winner of a multitude of literary awards, our erudite hearts and one of our favorite fathers, Neil Gaiman!
Tickets: nakedgirlsreadinggaiman.bpt.me
Happy Buddha Productions Presents:
Butt Kapinski, w/ Sketches from Ugly Hollywood
June 13 at 10pm
$15 General/ $12 DCAC Members
The director of international hit Red Bastard comes back swinging with Butt Kapinski. Think it’s a solo show? Think
again. Private eye Butt Kapinski invites you to co-star in a film noir fantasy. This funny, filthy, fully-interactive
ride is riddled with sex, sin, shadows, and subterfuge. Let’s kick reality to the curb and play in a world of dark
dreams and bad smiles. Plus, debut sketches from local sketch troupe Ugly Hollywood!
Killer Joe
June 5-8, 12-15, 19-22, & 26-29 at 7:30 PM
$15 General/ $8 DCAC Members
From the author of August: Osage County, Killer Joe derives its humor from the dark realism of white trash
stereotypes in this withering, rustic outlook on America’s disenfranchised. The Smith family hire Killer Joe to do away with mother for the insurance money. As a retainer against his final
payoff Killer Joe decides to bed the Smith’s young daughter, Dottie. Before it’s over nearly everyone is a bloody mess.
Tickets available at www.seenosun.com
In Your Ear
May 18th, 2014
Sunday at 3pm
$5 General/ Free for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features readings and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avant-garde tradition. Featured at this month’s In Your Ear: Shanna Compton, poet whose book-length speculative poem The Seam is forthcoming from Bloof Books. Maureen Thorson, poet, publisher, and book designer living in Washington, D.C., author of My Resignation (Shearsman Books). Anselm Berrigan, author of Loading (Brooklyn Arts Press), a collaboration with painter Jonathan Allen.
Tickets: 202.462.7833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
Punctual Drunks present Aboulia!
Saturday April 26th at 5:00pm & 7:30pm
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
The Punctual Drunks are on time for most things, but not the cherry blossoms. Aboulia! welcomes the
one-night-only return of their DC-turned-New Yorker by hosting two improv comedy shows with the P.Drunks. The
night also will feature local improv troupes Pony Poni Pone, The Word of God, and more! Don’t be a late bloomer–
ask your crush to be your date and buy your tickets now!
Please call DC Arts Center to reserve your ticket 202.462.7833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
A Dose of Dupas presents Come on Son!
April 20
Sunday at 7:30pm
$20 General/ $18 DCAC Members
A four woman interactive poetry experience starring LOVE, the poet, Bria, Shelly Says So & Rebecca Dupas, four
amazing writers from Baltimore City. The premise of the show is embodied in the title. The phrase “come on son”
typically follows an idea or statement that is audacious in the mind of the speaker. The ladies of “Come on Son”
are using poetry, comedy and song to tackle ideas and statements that tend to box women in categories. The show
uses art to address stereotypes. Using four themes, that will alter in each city, the ladies of “Come on Son” tackle
perceptions & misconceptions of love, anger, strength, identity, sexuality, and more in a dialogue that is comical
yet thought-provoking.
Naked Girls Reading Presents: A Night at the Movies
March 22
Saturday at 10pm
$25 General/ $20 DCAC Member
Who doesn’t love a good movie? Your Naked Girls are no different. But we are far more fond of the tales, legends, graphics and novels that brought them into existence. Bring your popcorn and join Cherokee Rose, Cherie Sweetbottom, Gigi Holliday, and Alice Darling for a Night at the Movies, Naked Girls Reading style. Like any new film seating is limited get yours early!
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
In Your Ear
March 13
$5 General/ Free for DCAC Members
Each month In Your Ear features readings and performances by different sets of poets who draw on an avantgarde tradition.
Curated by Buck Downs and Maureen Thorson. For more info, visit dcpoetry.com/iye
Tickets: call 202 462 7833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
The Happy Buddha VII: Featuring the Amy and Kristen Show
March 7 & 8
Friday & Saturday at 10pm
$10 General/ $8 for DCAC Members
The Happy Buddha is extremely excited to announce his happiest and most buddhaesque show ever! In observance of Jeff Hughes’ (aka the Happy Buddha’s) 21st + 23rd birthday, because he lives to bring laughter to the people, he’s bringing the incredible Amie and Kristen/Kristen and Amie show back to DC! They brought the crowd to their feet at the inaugural District Improv Festival, and now they’re joining in on the Buddha fun! The ladies will be joined by ShawnMikael(s), The Score DC, Population: 6, Nox, and Press Play in what is sure to be an amazing weekend of comedy! You will NOT want to miss this! After the show, join us next door at Mellow Mushroom, come say hi to the funny, friendly ladies, and buy the Buddha a birthday round!
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Molotov Theatre presents:
Normal
March 6, 7, 8, 9
Thursday through Sunday at 7:30 PM
$25 General/ $20 for DCAC Members
“Normal,” by Anthony Neilson, is the true-life story of Peter Kurten, the “Dusseldorf Ripper” of the 1920s and 1930s. This vaudevillian fever dream and disturbing love triangle is told from the point of view of the attorney who represented Kurten in the trial that ended his horrific crime spree. Kurten’s life is said to be the inspiration for Fritz Lang’s movie “M.” Directed by Jay D. Brock with original score by composer Gregg Martin, “Normal” features Brian McDermott, Elizabeth Darby, and Alex Zavistovich.
Tickets: http://molotovtheatre.org/
Naked Girls Reading Presents: Love Bites
February 23
Sunday at 7:30pm
$25 General/ $20 DCAC member
Valentine’s Day didn’t go exactly as you planned? Who needs chocolate, flowers or mortals when you can have tall, dark and sexy vampire stories?DC’s official Naked Girls return to bring a new twist to the monotony of Valentine’s Day with Love Bites, a Vampire Valentine. As they say no one can truly love forever except a vampire. Naked Girls Return to the DCAC to show why a vampire apocalypse could be a good thing. Naked Girls Reading Presents Love Bites will showcase tales of mesmerizing eyes, rapid pulses and truly eternal love or heartbreak. Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to DCAC with the lovely Gigi Holliday and Cherie Sweetbottom to entertain, seduce and even educate you. Special
Guest Naked Girl to be announced!
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Just Moxie
February 14, 21, & 28
Friday at 10 PM
$12 General/ $10 for DCAC Members
The Olympics are back and so is Just Moxie with a lineup of medal-worthy improv! For three Fridays in a row, Just Moxie will be hosting 10 different local improv troupes at DC Arts Center. Come cheer everyone on as we all cross that finish line of awesome! Just Moxie is Amanda Barber, Steve Calamia, Laura Frese, Susie Gutierrez, Eric Krupski, and Marc Reber.
Tickets: (202) 462-7833 or email info@dcartscenter.org
The Bannermen Presents: Lost Love Letters
February 7 & 8
Friday & Saturday at 7:30 & 10 PM
$15 General/ $12 for DCAC Members
Did you ever have that special someone that got away? Or spied someone across a crowded party and fallen instantly in love, only not having the nerve to go up to them, so they disappear from your life as quickly as they appeared? They say that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. The Bannermen will look to bring a little more love into your lives this Valentine’s Day with Lost Love Letters. Bring us your most joyous or most heartbreaking idea for a play, and we will bring them to life right before your eyes. The Bannermen combine the spontaneity of improvisation with the glitz and glamour of scripted theater. Taking the title of a play never written from the audience, they perform a full one act play off the top of their heads, creating beautiful, rich, real characters, relationships, and environments that will leave you wondering just how much they wrote beforehand. The answer to that, is none. The Bannermen are Dave Barth, Megan Blaskovich, Sabahat Chaudary, Madeleine Findley, Chad Giron, Charles Lipper, Katie
Ozog, and Justin Schram. Directed by Justin Purvis.
God’s Country (A One Woman Show)
January 12
Sunday at 7:30pm
$20 General / $18 DCAC Members
“We live in a country where faith is a 9mm locked and loaded with God bullets. If when you were born you were told you were a God and not a lowly sinner what would you do? How would you move, breathe, think, love? If this is God’s Country, where the hell is God?” Michelle Antoinette Nelson aka LOVE the poet Michelle Antoinette Nelson, also known as LOVE the poet is a poet, actor, musician, host and prominent indie artist/author on the national performance and literary art scenes, and in the field of creative writing education. She has appeared on CNN as a speaker at the Jena 6 rally in Washington, D.C., authored the book “Black Marks on White Paper”, is the recipient of the 2011 Baker grant award, released multiple spoken word CDs, and has performed at the Smithsonian & college campuses nationwide. Michelle is also a Punany Poet (as seen on HBO), the playwright and star of “God’s
Country” her touring one woman play, the creator of Live Lyrics! Creative writing workshops, and the founder/host of BE FREE Fridays (monthly open mic series)
Capital City Showcase
January 11, May 18, June 14, September 6
10 PM
$10 General/ $8 DCAC Members
The Capital City Showcase is the variety show featuring the best comedians, musicians, and performing artists in the DMV! For over four years, The Showcase has featured some of DC’s best stand-up comedians, improv comedians, storytellers, bands, acoustic performers, and hip-hop artists.
Tickets: www.capitalcityshowcase.com
Naked Girls Reading: Erotica
January 10
Friday at 7:30 PM
$25 General/ $20 DCAC member
It was such a rousing good time last year we had to bring it back to ring in 2014. Join DC’s official Naked Girls for an aural assortment of Erotica to warm your *ahem* bones. As an extra special treat, we will be joined again by that “Porcelain Provocateur”, Lucy Flawless, from Chicago. We invite you to join us at our home, the DCAC, to kick off the New Year with sexiness. Naked Girls Reading Presents Erotica will showcase tales of naughty tricks, lustful yearnings and a salacious rendezvous or two, if you’re lucky. Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to DCAC with the lovely Gigi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom and special guest Lucy Flawless to entertain, seduce and even educate you.
Tickets: brownpapertickets.com