Cut It Out: A Dangerously Absurd Paper Collage Making Session In this workshop, participants are invited to reject logic and take imagery entirely out of context. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Artist in Residence Khadija […]

Join us on May 8 and 9 for an evening of music and musings about magical evenings, memories, and the best of the worst of times. Music direction by Barbara Schelstrate. Directed by Tracy Simpson. The cast includes Guy Bosworth, Susan Dye, Heather Frank, Caroline Kenney, Tom Michalisko, Marianne Glass Miller, Dean Reichard, Tracy Simpson, Lonny Smith, and Kerri Wilson. This promises to be a fun evening on Capitol Hill! As always, proceeds benefit tuition assistance at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW), helping to ensure that no child is ever turned away from arts classes due a lack of funds.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased by calling CHAW at (202) 547-6839 or going online and searching for CHAWbaret 20. Performances are Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9 at 8:00pm. Doors open at 7:30pm. CHAW is located at 545 7th Street SE Washington DC 20003, at the corner of 7th and G Streets SE, just two blocks from Eastern Market metro station on the blue and orange lines.

There are times when a production takes you into the essence of a Shakespeare play and effects a transformation. The emotion beneath the well-known words becomes clear in an entirely new way. That is what happens in Faction of Fools’ Much Ado About Nothing. Director Natalie Cutcher and her merry band of artists bring us a Much Ado that is both passionate and comic. Shakespeare and Commedia dell’arte, like Beatrice and Benedick, turn out to be a match made in heaven.
Much Ado About Nothing plays through May 2, 2026, presented by Faction of Fools Theatre Company performing in the black box theater inside the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop at 545 7th Street SE, Washington, DC. Tickets are on a sliding scale ($27, market rate; $37, “pay it forward”; $17, lower income/child) and can be purchased at the door and online.

Family-friendly, contains some PG-13 humor.