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Review: Sobriety of Fear at Capital Fringe
The #MeToo era has been brought to light by unrelentingly brave female voices. Sobriety of Fear, and specifically its playwright and solo performer Shaun Michael Johnson, successfully turns the light...
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Review: Flight of the Xenophobe at Capital Fringe
D Mitchell’s Flight of the Xenophobe encases 2013 in amber to examine the issues of race and gentrification. Xenophobia comes from Greek and means a strong fear of what is foreign, so who, Flight asks,...
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Review: Bartleby the Magical White Coworker at Capital Fringe
Bartleby the Scrivener, in Herman Melville’s short story of the same name, was a man of massive silences, who spoke only when his employer asked him to do something. “I would prefer not to,” he would...
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Review: Damned If You Do. The women of UCB prove there’s hope for DC after all.
To put on a fresh show every night, Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) must know its audience down to the core of their prides and insecurities. The New York- and Los Angeles-based improv comedy troupe,...
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Review: Isadora Duncan: Landscapes of the Soul at Capital Fringe
You know when you are watching Isadora Duncan’s work. Her technique, created over a century ago, is easily recognizable. With parading skips, subtle gestures and a wide emotional vocabulary, her works...
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Fringe bingers – best drinks and eats before and after shows on the Wharf
If you had told me when I got a job as a hostess/busser at a small local restaurant in high school that 15 years later I would have made a career of working in restaurants, I would have laughed at you....
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Review: Tales of the Mysterious and Grotesque: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe...
There are numerous themes to Edgar Allan Poe’s body of work: Perverse, mysterious, grotesque, and merry. Coincidentally, those are the names of the characters for this compilation of scenes intended to...
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Review: Tweet Land of Liberty at Capital Fringe
We Americans now find ourselves deep into the presidency of Donald Trump. Whatever opinions one may have on his policies, it’s tough to deny that Donnie’s personality is ripe for satire. Furthermore,...
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Review: Holon! at Capital Fringe
A holon, coined by Arthur Koestler in his book The Ghost in the Machine (1967), is philosophical term for something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. For example, Holon! is one whole dance...
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Review: The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War at Capital...
Some of the best theatre presents you with an impossible choice and asks what decision you would make in each character’s place. In the case of 2000FeetUp Theatre Company’s The Body of a Woman as a...
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Review: F*ck Tinder: a love story at Capital Fringe
In two years, David Rodwin went out with 120 women. Evidently, that changes a man. F*ck Tinder, Rodwin’s solo show on his dating life, ranges from deep vulnerability to unrestrained boasting; it’s a...
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Review: Lesbians and the Men Who Love Them at Capital Fringe
Sometimes the identities we construct for ourselves become our prisons. This is the scenario playwright M. Cristina Garcia uses as the central conceit of her play, Lesbians and the Men Who Love Them,...
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Review: Deadlie Affairs: Arden of Faversham at Capital Fringe
Has our obsession with true crime always been with us? In 1551, Alice Arden and her lover arranged the murder of Alice’s husband, Lord Arden of Faversham. Click image for tickets to Deadlie Affairs at...
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Review: Spook at Capital Fringe Festival
I am not equipped to write this review. That much was apparent from the moment I saw Daryl “Spook” Spokane (Meshaun Labrone) stoically reclining on the day of his execution in Spook, a play written and...
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Review: 1 2 3 a play about abandonment and ballroom dancing at Capital Fringe
Once there was a couple that so loved peace and justice that they would blow up buildings and kill people on its behalf. After that, they would move to another town, changing their identities and those...
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Review: Theatre Du Jour’s The Accidental Pilgrim for Capital Fringe
If any play is a complete 180º polar opposite of the safe suburban outdoor Shakespeare I reviewed most recently, it is certainly B. Stanley and company’s inscrutable, frustrating, and nearly successful...
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Review: Phantom Limb at Capital Fringe
There’s an old logic puzzle about a farmer trying to get a wolf, a chicken, and a pile of corn across the river, but the farmer can only take two at a time in his boat. Leaving the wrong combination of...
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Review: Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me?: A Love Story
With Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me?, UrbanArias has given us an operatic gem, and the talents assembled for the production have encased this most entertaining work in pure gold. What makes this...
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Review: Love in Three Scenes at Capital Fringe
Since the introduction of the Travel Ban, has there been a quantifiable increase in Islamophobia? After being officially pulled out of the Paris Agreement, will present and future Americans suffer more...
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Review: Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex & My Mother at Capital Fringe
At this point, theatrical works about gay men and their over-the-top, overbearing mothers practically comprise an entire genre unto themselves—think Torch Song Trilogy and Mothers and Sons, just to...
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