Stories of hope and change

On January 21, 2023, join emcee Nick Baskerville and storytellers Silvana Clark, Bonnie Gardner, Katie Green, Jennifer Hine, Jack Scheer, and Sarah Snyder for “Hope and Change: stories to believe in.”
In-person, at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA, and online.

The Auld Shebeen is located at 3971 Chain Bridge Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030.
Better Said Than Done performs DOWNSTAIRS. The entrance is located on North St. Doors open at 6:00pm. The live show starts at 7:00pm.
A full dinner and bar menu are available.

January 21, 2023
Doors Open 6:00pm/ Show Starts 7:00pm EST /Ends 8:45pm
$15 Per Person/$5 Minimum Virtual
Tickets are divided into virtual ONLY – for watching online – or in-person.
When you purchase a ticket, you will receive an email that will include a link to watch the live-stream, whether or not you are coming to the live show. If you purchase an “in-person” ticket, your name will be entered on the list at the door. You do not get a physical ticket.
You should receive a link to watch the streaming video shortly after purchase. If you do not see that email, please contact stories@bettersaidthandone.com BEFORE 6:00pm on November 26th.
Ticket sales for the in-person show close when we sell out or when the show starts. However, you will be able to purchase the recording of the show until 11:59pm on the 23rd. Your receiptwill reflect that time.
PLEASE NOTE: We recommend you get tix in advance. If we do not sell out, we’ll have tickets available at the door for $15 per person.

In the “Buy Tickets” box, click on the amount you’d like to pay and then “add to cart.” At the top of the “Buy Tickets” box, a little box that says “Go to Cart” will appear. Click on that.
Confirm everything in your cart is correct. Click “Review Cart and Make Payment.” Then click on “Make Payment through Paypal.” That will take you to Paypal where you are given the choice to login to pay OR to pay with credit card.

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Starter Kit stories

Watch emcee Bonnie Gardner and storytellers Sheila Arnold, J. Carroll, Chetter Galloway, Nina Lesiga, Ingrid Nixon, Sam Payne, and Greg Weiss in “Starter Kit: stories of beginning.”

Recording available to purchase through January 15th. Ticket holders can watch the recording for two weeks.

$15 Suggested/$5 Minimum
All Proceeds Split Between Producer and Storytellers
You will receive a link to watch the show moments after registering. If you do NOT see that email, first check your junk mail folder. If you still cannot find it, contact stories@bettersaidthandone.com.
As people can watch the recording for up to one month after, ticket sales close on January 14th.

In the “Buy Tickets” box, click on the amount you’d like to pay and then “add to cart.” At the top of the “Buy Tickets” box, a little box that says “Go to Cart” will appear. Click on that.
Confirm everything in your cart is correct. Click “Review Cart and Make Payment.” Then click on “Make Payment through Paypal.” That will take you to Paypal where you are given the choice to login to pay OR to pay with credit card.

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Good Tidings

Here we are, at the beginning of the last month of the year. 2022 is about to pull into the station, and 2023 is getting ready to head out into the great unknown that is the future. But, before that all happens, let’s pause to join together, revel in some good fellowship, and tell a few stories

“Good Tidings: Stories of Comfort and Joy” is the grand finale of Better Said Than Done’s storytelling year. It’s both show and celebration. So, put on that ugly sweater, light some candles, pop some crackers, kick your feet up, and log on to join us on Zoom at 8:00 P.M. Eastern, Thursday, December 8th, 2022. Our own fabulous Jessica Robinson will be your ho-ho-hostess with the mostest, and she’ll be sharing the virtual space with a wonderful, lively group of holiday merrymakers: Walt Belcher, Judy Clapper, Pam Faro, Rachel Hedman, Erin Johnston, Angela Lloyd, Teri Lott, Ria Spencer, and Joel Ying!

Tickets are available here!

I kept the prompt for our tellers sweet and simple this time around…

Tell us about a favorite holiday memory.

And they did not disappoint. Check out their responses…

Walt Belcher

Walt Belcher: On Christmas morn 1954, Santa had left me a cowboy outfit: hat, vest, and chaps. Best of all I got the 50-piece Roy Rogers Double Bar Ranch toy set with plastic figures of Roy and his horse Trigger. I played with this for hours. My Dad put on my little cowboy hat and chased me around the Christmas tree. I was 7 years old and from that day on, we shared a love for all things cowboy.


Judy Clapper

Judy Clapper: My favorite holiday memories were Christmas at my grandma’s house. All of us – grandparents, parents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nieces, and cousins would come together for this family potluck/Christmas party. While the ladies were downstairs making noodles, rolls, pies, cookies, meats, etc., the guys were upstairs watching football. Since my cousins’ last name is Houston, they cheered on the Houston Oilers. Some gifts were exchanged. One particular Christmas, as a child, my uncle gave me my very first camera – a Polaroid One step. I’ve been hooked on taking photos ever since.


Pam Farro

Pam Faro: My parents raised us kids to not believe in Santa Claus. We loved playing the game – pretending we believed, secretly tucking little gifts anonymously into stockings, not knowing who each stocking gift was from. It’s the way I raised my kids, too. We enjoyed leaving cookies and milk and oats for Santa and his reindeer on Christmas Eve, wink-wink. And we always knew that all the gifts under the tree were lovingly chosen and given to each other by family members. I wouldn’t want it any other way.


Rachel Hedman

Rachel Hedman: Everybody makes a list in our home. By “everybody,” I really mean our three kids. When pushed enough, my husband and I also exchange lists even though “stuff” is not as exciting as when we were kids. I listed the usual things: storytelling books, blouses, etc. Then came Christmas. My husband got me a turquoise wig with curls on the bottom with streaks of pink and purple. Nowhere on my list did I put down wigs. He came up with it on his own. It proved that my husband really knew me. He knew me better than myself. Ever since that time, I love wigs AND caps.


Erin Johnston

Erin Johnston: When I was an acting student in NYC, the school gave us tickets to The Glass Menagerie on Broadway. The day before we made leaf piles and jumped in them and the night before we watched the blowing up of the parade balloons. We went out for dinner after the matinee, to a well-known actors’ hangout. It felt so odd to be in a restaurant and to eat steak and not turkey, but the excitement of being young and in NYC living our dreams filled our hearts with memories.


Angela Lloyd

Angela Lloyd: Every Christmas Eve, our family attended the late-night services. Winter 1970, my brother Richard was freely playing a recorder. Our mother asked us to play the opening processional. We began outside the church and processed into the candlelit sanctuary. Richard and I played the perky march on recorder, Tim played a bass hand-drum, Christopher, our youngest kept time on tambourine. Our tempo was andante, an easy walking pace. Can you hear it? This tradition began in Bogota, Colombia, and became our family connection in NY, Palma de Mallorca, Ft. Lauderdale and Westport, CT.


Teri Lott

Teri Lott: One of my most memorable Christmases started on December 23rd with an urgent long-distance call from our aunt which led to frantic packing and finally a treacherous car ride slipping and sliding on icy roads. Of course my brother and I were oblivious to our dad’s driving trauma. Our concern was how Santa would know where we were. But on Christmas morning, the bikes we had so desperately wanted were under our aunt’s tree!


Ria Spencer

Ria Spencer: After Christmas dinner at my Aunt and Uncle’s house me, my sister, and the half a dozen cousins that were visiting got sent to the rec room to watch cartoons. We stretched out our sleeping bags and turned on the TV. That’s when we realized they had the most wondrous thing – they had cable TV! None of us did back home. We quickly locked eyes and made a plan. Especially since all the grown-ups were upstairs and no one was watching. So we ditched the cartoons, turned the volume down low, and watched Salem’s Lot – a Stephen King flick that’s all about vampires. Best Christmas ever!


(We did not receive a response from Dr. Joel Ying. He will be docked one snowflake cookie at the afterparty.)

Those wonderful anecdotes certainly put me in the holiday spirit! If they got you feeling festive, why don’t you join us on December 8th to bask in even more cheer and delight. We’ll open the party on Zoom at 8:00 P.M., and the merriment starts once all you fantastic folks are “in the door,” as it were. Tickets start at a $5 minimum contribution, with a $15 suggested amount, and additional tiers for those of you feeling generous in this season of giving.

Grab your tickets now!

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Body, Mind, and Spirit

Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the start of the Holiday season are knocking at the door. It’s a time of celebration, re-connection, and consumption. It’s wonderful, it’s frenetic, it’s hectic, and it’s very often exhausting. And in the midst of all the merry and the ho, ho, ho, it’s easy to lose touch of yourself.

So Better Said Than Done is doing something to forestall that eventuality by scheduling a little time to focus on the individual. This Saturday, November 26th, we’ll be bringing you “Body, Mind, and Spirit: Stories About Our Selves” both at the Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA, and online via Zoom. Our founder and fearless leader Jessica Robinson is your host for the night, and she’ll be bringing up on our stage the incredible cast she’s gathered: Richard Barr, Adam Booth, JR Denson, Alex Dixon, Jenn Kamara, Carol Moore, and Andrea Young! Tickets are available here!

In order to give you a little insight into the minds of these tellers, but not wanting to spoil their own stories in any way, I asked them a seemingly counterintuitive but ultimately related question:

If you could spend a week as anyone else in the history of the world, who would it be and why?

Here’s what they had to say…

Richard Barr

Richard Barr: There are two tempting areas of history I couldn’t do. First is preventing some disaster. My parents met in the Army during WWII. If I prevented Hitler’s rise to power, there wouldn’t be a war, my parents wouldn’t have met and I wouldn’t have been born to stop Hitler. So that’s impossible. Second, it might be fun to meet historic sirens like Cleopatra, Catherine the Great or Anne Boleyn, but I’d be disillusioned by the hygiene of earlier times. Therefore, I choose to be John James Audubon in the week he observed now-extinct passenger pigeons cover the sky and whose numbers in the trees broke limbs.


Adam Booth

Adam Booth: Jasper Johns for a week during the 1950s. I’d be curious to know what it was like to strive to create art in NYC at that time, and to have Rauschenberg by my side, not consciously changing American art but simply achieving that outcome by creating what felt right to create in the time. And I would be interested to know what currents were running through their minds as they made choices about what to work on.


JR Denson

JR Denson: I’d choose being a US President the first week on the job. On that first week, you get a bunch of nice congratulatory texts and calls. Also, your approval rating will never be higher than it is that first seven days. Lastly, and maybe most importantly, you get the secret-secrets briefing. Like, “what’s really at Area 51?”, “Where is Amelia Earhart?”, and “Why is it that during rush hour all the other lanes seem to be moving more smoothly than the one I’m currently in?”


Alex Dixon

Alex Dixon: Right now, as an activist, I am needing the stories of the “unknown” people , who stayed off the front lines and did the work to help keep the movement going by feeding people, childcare, etc. So I don’t have a particular name, but that’s who I would like to spend a week with with myself.


Jenn Kamara

Jenn Kamara: I would choose Jeff Bezos because he’s absurdly rich and I could be Robin Hood. Within the week I’d pay off a lot of people’s debt (including my own), and fulfill everyone’s Amazon wish list.


Carol Moore:

Carol Moore: I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to be present at the very beginning of the world, mainly so I could weigh in on the naming of some of the animals. Most of them make no sense to me. Otherwise, I’d want to spend a week as Oprah. Oprah has made such an impact in lives of so many, and I believe she’s the closet thing we have to a Queen. I’d love to experience her world, her resources, and her ability to create change. I also think I read that she has a personal chef, and I need that in my life.


Andrea Young

Andrea Young: Josephine Baker would be great to be. I’d love to hear her recount her time during the Roaring Twenties, but to also learn how she decided to become an actress and pioneer in the industry. But what I am most excited to relive is her experiences with adopting her Rainbow Tribe of 10 children and the stories she created for them. Finally, what did that banana skirt feel like and how did she live part of her life with secrets???


Intriguing, thoughtful, and poignant answers, wouldn’t you say? Just imagine what they’ll bring to the table when they’re revealing their own inner depths. Good news – you don’t have to imagine! Join us! If you’re in the Greater D.C. Metro, head on down to the Auld Shebeen. Otherwise, come to our online watch party.

One last thought: if you’re hosting friends and/or relatives over the holiday weekend, bring ’em to this show! It’s a great way to spend your Saturday night.

The in-person doors open at 6:00 P.M. and the show begins at 7:00. Tickets start at $5 for the online version and $15 in person, with a variety of options to please all comers. Secure your tickets now!

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Good Tidings

The recording of our December 8th show is available for purchase. Watch emcee Jessica Robinson and storytellers Walt Belcher, Judy Clapper, Pam Faro, Rachel Hedman, Erin Johnston, Angela Lloyd, Teri Lott, Ria Spencer, and Joel Ying in “Good Tidings: Stories of Comfort and Joy” – Our Year End Celebration and Storytelling Show – with Recipes!

All ticket holders get a link to our recipe collection with over 20 recipes from our community of storytellers.

December 8, 2022
8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST
The show will run about 90 minutes and we invite all to stay after the show for our online party.
$15 Suggested/$5 Minimum
All Proceeds Split Between Producer and Storytellers
Pay-what-you-think-it’s-worth. Any contribution gets you the recipe “book,” as well as the link to watch the recording of the show.
You will receive a link to watch the show moments after registering. If you do NOT see that email, first check your junk mail folder. If you still cannot find it, contact stories@bettersaidthandone.com.
As people can watch the recording for up to one month after, ticket sales close on December 11th.

In the “Buy Tickets” box, click on the amount you’d like to pay and then “add to cart.” At the top of the “Buy Tickets” box, a little box that says “Go to Cart” will appear. Click on that.
Confirm everything in your cart is correct. Click “Review Cart and Make Payment.” Then click on “Make Payment through Paypal.” That will take you to Paypal where you are given the choice to login to pay OR to pay with credit card.

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Body Mind and Spirit

The recording of our November 26 show is now available for purchase. Watch emcee Jessica Robinson and storytellers Richard Barr, Adam Booth, J.R. Denson, Alex Dixon, Jenn Kamara, Carol Moore, and Andrea Young in “Body, Mind, and Spirit: stories about our selves.”

November 26, 2022
Doors Open 6:00pm/ Show Starts 7:00pm EST /Ends 8:45pm
$15 Per Person/$5 Minimum Virtual
Tickets are divided into virtual ONLY – for watching online – or in-person.
When you purchase a ticket, you will receive an email that will include a link to watch the live-stream, whether or not you are coming to the live show. If you purchase an “in-person” ticket, your name will be entered on the list at the door. You do not get a physical ticket.
You should receive a link to watch the streaming video shortly after purchase. If you do not see that email, please contact stories@bettersaidthandone.com BEFORE 6:00pm on November 26th.
Ticket sales for the in-person show close when we sell out or when the show starts. However, you will be able to purchase the recording of the show until 11:59pm on the 28th. Your ticket will reflect that time.
PLEASE NOTE: We recommend you get tix in advance. If we do not sell out, we’ll have tickets available at the door for $15 per person.

In the “Buy Tickets” box, click on the amount you’d like to pay and then “add to cart.” At the top of the “Buy Tickets” box, a little box that says “Go to Cart” will appear. Click on that.
Confirm everything in your cart is correct. Click “Review Cart and Make Payment.” Then click on “Make Payment through Paypal.” That will take you to Paypal where you are given the choice to login to pay OR to pay with credit card.

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People’s Choice Story Contest Tickets

The 2023 People’s Choice Storytelling Contest will take place on March 25, 2023 at 4:30pm EASTERN, both in-person at The Old Town Hall in Fairfax, VA, as well as streaming live online. This page is only for purchasing a virtual ticket to watch the online story contest, and only the story contest. If you’d like to attend the festival in-person, you can purchase a full weekend or day of pass with the link below. Or if you’d like to watch the full festival online, you can click the link below for that as well.

The 7 storytellers competing in the 2023 People’s Choice Storytelling Contest at the Women’s Storytelling Festival are: Lona Bartlett, Julie Bradshaw, Bette Lou Higgins, Robin Kitson, Teri Lott, Gwendolyn Napier, and Stacy Parish!

Read more about the contest and the storytellers here!

Buy Tickets to the Full Women’s Storytelling Festival Here

Buy Virtual Story Contest ONLY Tickets Below

PLEASE NOTE: If you purchase a Virtual Story Contest ONLY Ticket, you will only receive a link to watch and vote in the 2023 People’s Choice Storytelling Contest. If you purchase a virtual or in-person FULL 2023 Women’s Storytelling Festival ticket, you will still be able to watch and vote in the Story Contest, but you will also have access to the rest of the festival events that your ticket covers. (A virtual FULL festival ticket gives you access to the entire festival live stream and recordings for one month.)

In the “Buy Tickets” box, click on the amount you’d like to pay and then “add to cart.” At the top of the “Buy Tickets” box, a little box that says “Go to Cart” will appear. Click on that.
Confirm everything in your cart is correct. Click “Review Cart and Make Payment.” Then click on “Make Payment through Paypal.” That will take you to Paypal where you are given the choice to login to pay OR to pay with credit card.

THE CONTEST DETAILS

• The People’s Choice Storytelling Contest will take place in-person, at The Old Town Hall in Fairfax City, VA, on Saturday, March 25, 2023, at 4:30pm Eastern. Like the rest of the festival, we will be live-streaming the contest, and ticket holders will also have one month to watch the recording.
• Each storyteller will have 7 minutes, with a 1-minute grace period. Any story that runs longer than 7 minutes and 59 seconds will be disqualified.
• The story can be any style. You are not limited to personal stories in this contest. The theme is “Perseverance.” However, it must be a spoken word story, performed orally, from memory.
• JUDGING will be based on audience votes combined with the judges’ scores. Our judges for the 2023 festival are Sheila Arnold and Noa Baum! Both the in-person audience and virtual audience votes will be counted. The audience, in-person or online, can only vote during the show.
• The Winner Winner Chickpea Dinner. The second-place winner will receive $50. The first-place winner will receive $100 and an invitation to perform at the 2024 Women’s Storytelling Festival. Not placing does not disqualify anyone from being invited to perform in the 2024 festival.

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Unreal Stories

On November 10, 2022, join storytellers Milbre Burch, Heather Forest, Cindy Rivka Marshall, Jessica Robinson, Jack Scheer, and Donna Washington for “Unreal: stories of magical realism, urban fantasy, and alternate reality.” Online only, starting at 8:00pm EST.

#storytellingshow
November 10, 2022
8:00pm EST/5:00pm PST
$15 Suggested/$5 Minimum
All Proceeds Split Between Producer and Storytellers
You will receive a link to watch the show moments after registering. If you do NOT see that email, first check your junk mail folder. If you still cannot find it, contact stories@bettersaidthandone.com.List item
As people can watch the recording for up to one month after, ticket sales close on November 13th. Your receipt will have November 13 on it. The live show is still on November 10th.

In the “Buy Tickets” box, click on the amount you’d like to pay and then “add to cart.” At the top of the “Buy Tickets” box, a little box that says “Go to Cart” will appear. Click on that.
Confirm everything in your cart is correct. Click “Review Cart and Make Payment.” Then click on “Make Payment through Paypal.” That will take you to Paypal where you are given the choice to login to pay OR to pay with credit card.

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Storytelling: The Musical!

Musicals are a special and unique genre, one where a mundane task like washing the floor becomes an engaging dissertation on the Hard Knock Life and something as simple as package delivery can rile up a whole town eagerly awaiting the Wells Fargo Wagon. From nearly century-old classics like Show Boat to the hip-hop infused sensation Hamilton, musicals enrapture audiences in a way no other form of entertainment can.

So it won’t come as a surprise that a lot of storytellers have been touched and inspired by musicals. To celebrate that, our fearless leader Jessica Robinson has gathered together a staggeringly talented group of tellers to present Storytelling: The Musical! Jessica will host the evening, emceeing for a cast made up of Lona Bartlett, Norm Brecke, Alton Chung, Gwendolyn Napier, Anne Rutherford, and Ed Stivender. The show comes to you via Zoom on Thursday, October 13th, at 8 o’clock.

Tickets are on sale right here!

The evening will be bursting with dozens of references to musicals of all stripes, and as you our audience catch them we encourage you to name them in the chat. It’ll be like a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but not messy!

I wanted to know a little bit more about the night’s performers and their relationships to musicals, so I asked them a simple question:

What’s your favorite musical, and why?

Here’s what they had to say…

Lona Bartlett

Lona Bartlett – A favorite musical? I can’t say that I have one. Musicals have always been part of my life. I’ve watched them on TV, performed in them in school and college, and gone to live Broadway performances. One favorite song I have is from Mary Poppins, “I Love to Laugh.” It makes me giggle every time I hear it. Some day, I wish to have a tea party on the ceiling. Now, wouldn’t that just make us all laugh out loud?

Norm Brecke

Norm BreckeThe Music Man. I grew up watching musicals on TV because my mom loved them. Mom volunteered to work backstage on a lot of productions of many musicals at the community theater too. So, I learned to love them. As a kid, the opening song “Rock Island” really got my attention. Many years later, my daughter was in the chorus of The Music Man. She got one solo singing line and got to do a lot of dancing, I think I saw it eight times. The Music Man is never boring, it’s funny, and the songs are great.

Alton Chung

Alton Chung – It was the late 80s and after taking a course in Copenhagen, a group of us had a reunion in Vienna and went to see Les Miserables. At intermission, one of the Belgian students was moved to tears by the music and actors, but did not understand a word as it was performed in German. I had seen the show in London and did the best I could to retell the story in English. Even the Austrian students listened as I filled in the gaps. We all enjoyed the show, but it was the company that made it special.

Gwendolyn Napier

Gwendolyn Napier – I have several but I love The Wiz with Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. The Wiz… It kept me on my Fingers and Toes with the Excitement and Movement from the Characters and the Music. It was upbeat and had Energizing Rhythms in the Songs. Not one Dull Moment. I was always moving and dancing. It held my attention and had me wanting more and more…

Jessica Robinson

Jessica Robinson – I was raised on musicals. Both my parents loved Jesus Christ Superstar so that was probably my first love. But then my mom introduced me to Man of La Mancha and I was a goner. I blame that musical for, well, for me producing this show of storytelling musicals, for me becoming a storyteller, for me always trying to reach the unreachable star.

Anne Rutherford

Anne RutherfordThe Music Man, since I fell in love with the 17-year-old portraying Harold Hill in my high school production. Now, my current goal is going to see Hugh Jackman playing him on Broadway, which will be a close second.

Ed Stivender

Ed Stivender – I think it’s a toss-up between Oklahoma! and West Side Story. Maybe because the Former was the first LP album of a musical to be played on our new Hi-Fi when I was in Grade School, and the Latter was the first album I bought with my own money, made by selling Bibles door-to-door in High School. I still can sing every line of both, I think. Perhaps I should have said Boom Baby Boom which is a One-Man Musical I wrote and presented at the Hartford Stage Company (Old Place) in 1978. It was a history of the Atomic Age from Werner von Braun to Three Mile Island. But I’m trying to be modest.

And while I am merely your humble blog post writer for this show, as a veteran with over thirty years experience doing musicals in community theater,  I feel compelled to weigh in with my favorite musical…

For me, it’s Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. It’s not Sondheim’s masterpiece (I vacillate between Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George for that honor), but it is the one that’s closest to my heart. Weaving together several Grimm fairy tales into one sweeping narrative, and with lush, witty songs that stick with you long after the curtain has fallen, it has all the complexity and nuance of Sondheim’s best work while also being universally accessible. I love it so much that I’ve done the show twice, first playing the Baker then later Cinderella’s Prince and the Big Bad Wolf!

So now that you know what makes these tellers (and my boss and me) want to jump into A Chorus Line and “Sing Out, Louise!” come join them for a night jam-packed with online musical magic! The show starts at 8 P.M. EDT on Zoom. Tickets range – $15 (suggested contribution) or $5 (minimum contribution), plus a $1 ticket handling charge. Proceeds are shared among the tellers.

Reserve your virtual seat now!

And remember to keep your ears open for those specific musical references and shout ‘em out in the chat!

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On the Fly

On October 22, 2022, join emcee Jack Scheer and storytellers Richard Barr, Julie Bradshaw, Jennifer Hine, Gifford Krivak, Tim Livengood, and Jessica Robinson, for “On the Fly: stories about quick thinking.” In-person, at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA, and online.

The Auld Shebeen is located at 3971 Chain Bridge Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030. Better Said Than Done performs DOWNSTAIRS. The entrance is located on North St. Doors open at 6:00pm. A full dinner and bar menu are available. The live show starts at 7:00pm.
There is a full dinner and bar menu available.

October 22, 2022
Doors Open 6:00pm/ Show Starts 7:00pm EDT /Ends 8:45pm
$15 Per Person/$5 Minimum Virtual
Tickets are divided into virtual ONLY – for watching online – or in-person.
When you purchase a ticket, you will receive an email that will include a link to watch the live-stream, whether or not you are coming to the live show. If you purchase an “in-person” ticket, your name will be entered on the list at the door. You do not get a physical ticket.
You should receive a link to watch the streaming video shortly after purchase. If you do not see that email, please contact stories@bettersaidthandone.com BEFORE 6:00pm on October 22nd.
Ticket sales for the in-person show close when we sell out or when the show starts. However, you will be able to purchase the recording of the show until 11:59pm on the 23rd. Your ticket will reflect that time.
PLEASE NOTE: We recommend you get tix in advance. If we do not sell out, we’ll have tickets available at the door for $15 per person.

In the “Buy Tickets” box, click on the amount you’d like to pay and then “add to cart.” At the top of the “Buy Tickets” box, a little box that says “Go to Cart” will appear. Click on that.
Confirm everything in your cart is correct. Click “Review Cart and Make Payment.” Then click on “Make Payment through Paypal.” That will take you to Paypal where you are given the choice to login to pay OR to pay with credit card.

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