This week, Washington Ensemble Theatre opens The Callers, a world-premiere musical by Ali el-Gasseir and Ella Dorband about telephone psychics and phone-sex workers. Andrew Russell, the young gun behind Intiman 2.0, is directing.

Slog is giving away two tickets to any performance (except opening night) with an essay contest: What’s the best, worst, strangest, most erotic, or most awkward encounter you’ve had with a telephone operator at a call center?

Send entries to callersticketcontest@thestranger.com by tomorrow at 5 pm. I’ll throw the best stories on Slog and announce the winner on Friday.

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....

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