Catch a reading of the play, karlmarx.com, at the Kennedy Center's 10th Annual Page to Stage Festival. Stage adaptation by the very talented John Becker.

Ella Kennedy has finally managed to find a fascinating thesis subject in the morass of Marxist political theory: Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl and a bright light in the Marxist movement, who famously declined after a disastrous love affair. With tenacity, with vigor, Ella Kennedy, Ph.D. student extraordinaire, begins delving into the world of Eleanor as she takes a job setting up a Marxist mail-order catalogue at the fledgling Institute of Thought in Washington, D.C.--a veritable three-ring circus…