The Theater Company of Lafayette (TCL) presents G-Men in G-Strings: The J. Edgar Hoover Follies, 9 all new, all comic short plays about the FBI and America’s most unlikely cross-dresser.  Although inspired by Hoover, the sketches are a wild ride that touches on decidedly contemporary issues, such as ever-present surveillance and schoolyard bullies.  It's George Orwell meets Mel Brooks.  The show runs two weekends, from Friday, July 30^th through Saturday, August 7^th.

G-Men follows TCL’s popular “new play festival” format, which in the past several years has been used for The Frankenstein Experiment, The Deep Beep Beep (commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik), 10,000 Wayniacs (about Las Vegas and Wayne Newton), and Separated at Birth: The Lincoln/Darwin Plays (commemorating the 200^th birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin).

The festivals are the brainchild of TCL Artistic Director, Madge Montgomery.  “At first we weren’t sure about how audiences would react to an evening of original, short plays loosely based on a single theme,” she says. “But they loved it from the beginning, and the concept has really taken off.  Over the years we’ve added things like live music during the scene changes and a comic through-line to tie the pieces together.  Our last two festivals, 10,000 Wayniacs and Separated at Birth were among our highest box-office draws ever.”