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JD Vance divulges marriage secrets, why he hates debating Usha and their divergent bedroom habits
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Rogue Theatre Festival
The Flea goes Rogue in the seventh annual edition of this indie festival, which crams some 37 works of various sizes into a single week of programming. The lineup features five successive evening of fully staged productions: Julio Lourido's Beto's Interview (Aug 5), Francesca Bolam's Book Club (Aug 6), Erin Proctor's Overlap (Aug 7), Dave Osmundsen's My Brother Jake (Aug 8) and Ned Du's Not Our Home, Not Our Home (Aug 9). These run concurrently with staged readings of other plays elsewhere in the Flea complex; the festival concludes with three performances of a quintet of short plays (Aug 10 at 1pm, 3pm and 7pm). If you can't make it in person, a different set of nearly 20 shows is available for digital streaming all week.
