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Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. John D’Agata is a talented writer with a transcendent essay about the suicide of a teenage boy — an essay that could save the magazine from collapse. When Jim is assigned to fact check D’Agata’s essay, the two come head to head in a comedic yet gripping battle over facts versus truth.
The Keegan Theatre has revealed the cast and team of Jacqueline Bircher's WEBSTER'S BITCH, a comedy about vulgar words and the people who define them. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.
In a world of fake news, alternate facts, social media frenzy and an increasingly opinionated and polarized public/audience, the issues raised in the intellectually challenging play The Lifespan of a Fact are more relevant than ever. Now being presented at the Keegan Theatre, this play may be short in length, but it probingly explores the weighty issues of the passion of the essay writer/prose stylist versus the scrupulous and zealous fact-checking of the journalist/article writer.
Today’s subject Thomas Floyd is someone you probably know if you are a regular reader of The Washington Post. Thomas is an arts journalist who contributes features on theater, movies, television, books and comedy for the Weekend and Style sections. He also writes theater, film, and literary criticism. That is more than enough for one person right there, but Thomas has another side to him as a writer and it’s one you might not think of.
The Keegan Theatre has announced the cast and creative team of the acclaimed serio-comedic play The Lifespan of a Fact, written by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, making its DC Premiere at Keegan.
The Keegan Theatre has announced its 26th Season in 2022-2023, featuring 8 mainstage productions in its intimate and welcoming theater home in Dupont Circle. The season includes the world premieres of 2 newly commissioned works from DC area playwrights, 1 regional premiere, 1 DC premiere, 2 musicals, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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Funny Girl
Kennedy Center [Opera House] (6/25 - 7/14) | ||
The Matchbox Magic Flute
Shakespeare Theatre Company (5/21 - 6/16) | ||
Mummy in the Closet: Evita's Return
GALA Hispanic Theatre (5/9 - 6/9) | ||
Pasión y Fuego: The Music of Spain
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (6/15 - 6/15) CONCERT
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Momia en el clóset: Evita's Return
GALA Hispanic Theatre (5/9 - 6/9) | ||
The Matchbox Magic Flute
STC's Klein Theatre (5/21 - 6/16) | ||
Tom's Elton Tribute
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (8/14 - 8/14) | ||
The Kite Runner
Kennedy Center [Eisenhower Theatre] (6/25 - 6/30) | ||
Problems Between Sisters
Studio Theatre (5/8 - 6/16) | ||
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