Electricity was in the air as a standing-room-only crowd packed into Dupont Circle’s Bier Baron Tavern for the April 2017 meeting of the Washington, DC underground storytelling smash, Perfect Liars Club. Would tonight be the night that the audience returned to its liar-spotting ways?
Upon learning of the passing of Chuck Barris, the mad genius behind The Gong Show, I couldn't help but reflect on my memories of that genre-busting television program and what it meant to me as a young kid.
After going a woeful 2 for 18 over the course of 2016, Perfect Liars Club audiences started off the year by going 2 for 2, successfully identifying the liar at the January and February shows. Were they going to make it three in a row — a feat thought unimaginable not long ago?
Perfect Liars Club February show revealed that the city’s reinvigorated fascination with truth and its detractors is going to be a boon for business!
Displaying all appearances of having benefitted from a long winter’s nap and sporting the rosy glow of optimism that accompanies the arrival of each new year, the inquisitive masses made their way to Dupont Circle’s Bier Baron Tavern for the January 2017 edition of Perfect Liars Club. Nothing had prepared them for what would happen next.