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FIFTH DATE

October 24 - November 15, 2025

Fifth Date, written by Lori Boyd and directed by Lynn Sharp Spears, a pre-Y2K romcom about the pressures and anxieties of reaching that number of dates.

Dating in your 30s comes with baggage. Reaching the fifth date is a turning point in any relationship. The rules! The expectations! It’s all so overwhelming, especially when the voice in your head, the one saying all the things you’d never actually say or do, is getting louder. But, if those alter egos get too much control, will they help the relationship flourish or fizzle? Jil and Ted are about to find out as they (and their alter egos) go on their FIFTH DATE.

November 9th, November 13th, & November 15th

.Lily is a queer, polyamorous, professional comedian . . . and a menace. Matt is her self-proclaimed himbo boyfriend. Together they share humorous, risqué, and ridiculous stories about dungeon etiquette, disappointing their moms, and losing a sister in a game of Cranium Cadoo.

You will learn:
1. Whether Gaston from Beauty and the Beast is gay.
2. The FDA paperwork most likely to win a woman's heart.
3. How to request a blowjob heroically.

This is information you need! Do not go unprepared into the rest of your life!

"[A]n enlightening and scintillating experience—like no other show I’ve seen!" —MD Theatre Guide

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Reviews

Reviews for WOMBAT DROOL

"The stories come to life in ways that make you rethink what it is we see when we look into the enclosures at the National Zoo. A deeply thoughtful foray into a subject about which not many people may know, Wombat Drool delightfully entertains and informs."
- MD Theatre Guide

“Think of David S. Kessler’s K as a zookeeper who is a combination of Neil deGrasse Tyson and Garrison Keillor. His subject (animals in a zoo and their keepers) is simultaneously commonplace and strange to us. But he guides us through it in a way that makes it accessible and wonderful.”
- DC Theatre Arts

"Wombat Drool is comedic and light, but not unserious. K’s off-track storytelling habit often tells the audience as much about the humans involved as the animals. Occasionally, his stories reveal more about himself, our reliable but emotionally complex narrator."
- Broadway World