Tonight brings the best love plays to come out of 14/48, the annual
jamboree wherein 14 shorts are written, rehearsed, and performed in one
weekend, including what might be the best play to come out of 14/48
ever—the Wayne Rawley one about the 8-year-old boys who look
and talk like businessmen, meeting with girls in power suits to
negotiate terms. “So we’re not eating our boogers anymore?” one of
the boy-men cries. “Well that sounds extreme.” (Capitol Hill Arts
Center, 1621 12th Ave, 800-838-3006. 8 pm, $20.)

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....