Capitol Steps January 18, 2009

In association with WPSU
Twenty five years ago, the Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom (Dont quit your day job!), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded 28 albums, Campaign and Suffering. They've been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.
The material is updated constantly, whether it is the Democrats' current infatuation with Barack Obama in "A Leader Like Barack" (to "The Leader of the Pack") or the latest opinion from Ann Coulter ("Loonies of the Right") or on the international side, President Bush and the Prime Minister of Japan reconciling their differences in the touching "Stand By Japan." No matter who's in the headlines, the Capitol Steps are equal opportunity offenders. We're happy to welcome these hilarious men and women back to the State for the 3rd time!

"They're the best. There's no one like them, no one in their league."
- Larry King, CNN

"The Capitol Steps make it easier to leave public life."
- Former President George H. W. Bush

Showtimes: 4-7 p.m and 8-11 p.m.

Official Website: http://www.thestatetheatre.org/Events/