Thu 7:30 pm

Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl at Hammer Auditorium

Hammer Auditorium, Flagg Building, Corcoran School for the Arts and Design, George Washington University · Washington · Ticketed · ★ 4.4 (53)

A Sarah Ruhl comedy about melancholy, staged by GWU's Corcoran theater program in the Flagg Building.

Feeling sad has never been this sexy. Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play turns depression into an aphrodisiac and sadness into an art form. It's a contemporary farce about a woman so beautifully blue, everyone is falling in love with her.

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