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Upright Citizens Brigade TourCo Live Improv Comedy

January 17, 2010 By 1 Comment

ucblogoThe Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has partnered with DCComedy.org to bring the very best improv comedians from their theatres in NYC and LA to DC.

The UCB TourCo show consists of two hilarious halves of the freshest longform improv the nation has to offer. The TourCo cast is hand-picked from the best improv comedians in New York City and Los Angeles – these performers are the “next wave” of comedy superstars from the theatre that brought you Amy Poehler, Horatio Sanz, Rob Corddry (The Daily Show), Ed Helms (The Daily Show, The Office), Rob Riggle (SNL, The Daily Show), Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel (Best Week Ever), and many more.

Note:  These shows are held  in the Forum of Sidney Harman Hall

The company is in town for an open run.

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The Glass Menagerie – EXTENDED!

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glassmenagerielogoThis delicate yet profound story of love, loss, yearning, illusion and escape continues to fascinate audiences six decades after its premiere. [Read more...]

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Gdirl from Gdansk

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gdansklogoLiam Heylin’s new play is the story of two brothers trying to survive beyond the shadow of their past. [Read more...]

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Beauty of the Father

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beautyfatherlogoAn estranged daughter reunites with her father, a painter in Granada, only to fall in love with his 20 year-old Moroccan houseboy and sometime-lover. [Read more...]

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Peter and the Wolf

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peterwolflogoThe familiar musical story is expanded into a lively theatrical version, with bold movement and original songs. [Read more...]

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Grease

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greaselogoGrease, Time Magazine’s 2007 pick for “#1 musical of the year,” is rockin’ across the country in this new production direct from Broadway. Take a trip to a simpler time of poodle skirts, drive-ins, and T-birds. [Read more...]

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By the Bog of Cats

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1ststageIn this loose retelling of Euripides’ Medea, Marina Carr (Woman and Scarecrow, Portia Coughlan) blends the mythic with the modern, [Read more...]

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Lydia R. Diamond on Stick Fly

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ldiamondThere was a lot of excitement when Arena Stage announced its production of Stick Fly. Tim and Lorraine had seen it at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival two years ago.  [Read more...]

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In the Red and Brown Water

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redandbrownPartially inspired by Yerma, Federico Garcia Lorca’s masterwork about a woman yearning in vain for fertility, Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s In the Red and Brown Water explores similar themes, only steeped in mythology and legends with West African influence. [Read more...]

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