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Capital Fringe review: Stuck
There are lots of ways to be stuck in life and many of them are explored in Stuck, an engaging two-hander written by Joy Cheriel Brown. Nickie, the winning MoNieshia Hunt, is an ambitious teen with big...
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Review: The Band’s Visit at The Kennedy Center
The Band’s Visit shows why it’s a multiple Tony Award winner in its stop at The Kennedy Center and is a welcoming respite from the big-bigger-biggest splashiness of a typical Broadway musical. It’s a...
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Capital Fringe review: How’s That Workin’ Out for Ya? 2.0
In case you haven’t heard, the future is female—and fiercely funny. At least as told by the Pipeline Playwrights—a collective of sharp-tongued women playwrights from NoVa, each presenting one of five...
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Capital Fringe review: Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical!
Franz Kafka and musical theatre might not automatically go together in the minds of most theatre-goers. But Fringe festivals often showcase such juxtapositions and thus we have the musical tale based...
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Capital Fringe review: Codependent
I’m going to come right out and admit it: I’m no millennial sympathizer.Too many years of sleeping under my desk and being forced (by corporate dress code) to wear nylons through DC’s sweltering...
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Capital Fringe review: Rewiring Eden
Forget about Adam. In Rewiring Eden, Paradise is a women-only zone, home to Eve, Lilith, and a host of other female figures borrowed from legend and myth. Long maligned or misunderstood, the women of...
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Capital Fringe review: Thanksgiving at Macbeth’s
Anyone who considers reality TV as lowbrow should withhold final judgement until they see this play. William Shakespeare’s words lend themselves as surprisingly appropriate in a “Real Housewives”...
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Capital Fringe review: Let’s Fight and Say We Didn’t
In Let’s Fight and Say We Didn’t, we witness a family at the breaking point. This student-run production from Anne Arundel Community College tackles mental health, child abuse, and the legacy of...
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Capital Fringe review: The Hound
Although he wrote until his death in 1937, the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was resolutely of the 19th century. His lurid prose, which frequently invoked evil in its most hideous forms, presented...
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Capital Fringe review: You Don’t Have a Copyright on Your Mom’s Legacy (and...
Greg DeLucia fully embraces the notion that the best way through a tough situation is laughter. His one-man storytelling show is both emotionally raw and steadfastly funny as DeLucia take us through...
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Capital Fringe review: What I’ve all been waiting for
Rob Rafferty’s been waiting for what we have all been waiting for — which is to say, for the fate which awaits us all. Poor Rob has been diagnosed with Brain Crabs, and so is reminded that he, like the...
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Capital Fringe review: Mamita: Eulogies to the Living
One enters into the eulogy of Mamita by her grown daughter, Charla, played by the playwright Adriana Hillas. But this one-woman performance is much more than a eulogy that remembers a loved one’s life....
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Capital Fringe review: A Gentleman & a Liar
“You should be honest with people, even when you’re doing magic, which is essentially lying.” That’s according to Penn Jillette, the loquacious half of the magic duo Penn and Teller and – at least in...
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Capital Fringe review: An Evening with Lola Montez
If this were the 1850’s, chances are you would know the name of Lola Montez. Mary Murphy is captivating in her portrayal of this alluring, crowd pleasing, coquettish, and controversial woman. Richard...
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Review: Elvis Costello’s opera, The Juliet Letters
UrbanArias’ Artistic Director Robert Wood continues to push the envelope of what makes for contemporary opera. In Elvis Costello, the famous Brit pop singer/song writer, he has found a composer with...
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Capital Fringe review: I Favor My Daddy
Jamie Brickhouse is a memorable mimic. His enthralling solo show, I Favor My Daddy, doesn’t feel solo because of how vividly he inhabits his characters. We meet his parents, Mama Jean and Daddy Poo,...
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Capital Fringe review: Caribbean Command
Imagine that you are a soldier — an intelligence analyst — deployed to the Caribbean Command in Key West, Florida. Your daily tasks involve reading reports and commenting on them in air-conditioned...
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Capital Fringe review: Before the Fall
It’s been more than a day since I left Before the Fall, and I still don’t know for sure that I can say what I think about it. That’s a crummy thing for a theater critic to admit, but I’m hoping to get...
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Capital Fringe review: Energie: A Rock Musical
Thomas Edison was really good at selling himself. Media attention and ruthlessness helped him claim sole credit for inventing the light bulb. In reality it was the work of many scientists. Energie: A...
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Capital Fringe review: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu
First it was just strange dreams. Then it was sinister voices. Now, the followers of Cthulu roam the streets in search of the servants and sacrifices that can bring the Old Ones – specifically Cthulu —...
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