For a couple of weeks in November, a trendy thirty- and fortysomething crowd was showing up for the murder comedy The Dumbwaiter. But by 9 or 10 PM, all but the dewy young had vamoosed, making way for the regulars. There's already been an art happening, and other shows are planned. Actor Crispin Glover, most recently in The People vs. Larry Flynt, is rumored to be showing up in February with a bizarro slide show. Everything was so cheap that denizens of the nearby Source and Studio theaters made a habit of stopping in before shows.
Beer is the drink of choice, but the stray martini or two makes an appearance.
The girls in the band are ready. Their lead guitarist, a reedy-looking guy a decade older than the chicks, has been riffing for a half hour. From the February 1998 Washingtonian. 2001 by Washington Magazine Inc.