Thursday
District Fringe at the Phoenix Theater
3305 Van Ness St. NW D.C., 6 p.m., $15 (Through July 26)
District Fringe returns for the second weekend of its second season with three shows in the Phoenix Theater (otherwise known as the UDC Auditorium.) But wait, you say, hasn’t Fringe been around DC much longer than two years? That’s correct. District Fringe is a new festival arising from the ashes of the Capital Fringe, which closed for good in 2024. (The peripatetic festival could not sustain the pandemic, a failed building acquisition and years of developer dodging.)