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Different, Damaged, Damned (review)
Alric Davis has penned a really remarkable play, and I’m so honored to have gotten a chance to witness this work at the Capital Fringe Festival. We open with Chamuel (Austin Farrow) and his father...
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Barry Beaver’s Adventures in Happy Valley (review)
Think Fringe isn’t family friendly? It is! Exhibit A: Barry Beaver’s Adventures in Happy Valley – LaGoDi Foundation for the Arts’ musical storybook romp. Geared towards toddlers, Barry Beaver is like a...
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The Lady with the Little Dog, Chekhov adaptation at Quotidian (review)
The Lady with the Little Dog, the story of a melancholy affair between a Russian couple which begins in 1901, is one of Anton Chekhov’s most famous and influential short stories. Dmitry Gurov, a bored...
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pen/man/ship at CATF 2016 (review)
This “Maritime Quest for Truth,” starts as passages from a journal or log of an elder statesman on board, Charles Boyd, also referred to as “Sir Charles” because of his sophisticated manner and status....
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Blood, Sweat and Fears from Molotov Theatre Group (review)
Eight years ago, the Molotov Theatre Group made its debut with Blood, Sweat and Fears, a trilogy of Grand Guignol plays, at the late, lamented Playbill Cafe. I reviewed it then. (Wait! Eight years? How...
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20th Century Blues at CATF 2016 (review)
If Wendy Wasserstein were alive and well today, you’d imagine she would be writing such warm, witty and cannily perceptive plays as Susan Miller’s 20th Century Blues, a world premiere at CATF under the...
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Aliens, Nazis and Angels (review)
Some people who talk about Fringe offer a warning: it’s uncurated. Anything could get produced. The implication, of course, is that curation is needed to prevent bad art from getting through to where...
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Redder Blood at Hub Theatre (review)
Plays involving religion often have a defined point of view that can make them predictable and boring. Yet nothing is predictable or boring about Helen Pafumi’s world premiere Redder Blood, an...
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The Wedding Gift at CATF 2016 (review)
Two years ago at CATF, playwright Chisa Hutchinson caused a stir with her rich and raucous two-character dramedy Dead and Breathing, about the right to die and the haves versus the have nots. This...
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Song Reader: The Musical (review)
Where can you experience the world premiere of a musical with songs by a 4-time platinum artist for only $17 a pop? At Capital Fringe, of course, with Song Reader: the Musical, an earnest and poppy...
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The House of Yes (review)
If you like your house decorated with dysfunction, madness, incest, and heightened dialogue, come visit The House of Yes. Let’s start with the play. Wendy Macleod’s look at a destructive domicile is...
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A Romp Around Uranus with Special Agent Galactica
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on! This may be your only chance to see a Fringe production transmitted via Bio-Hologram, and definitely the only Fringe show featuring a member of the new...
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Let Trump Be Trump (review)
Apologies to the one Trump fan who goes to DC theatre and is reading this, but there is perhaps too much wrong, unbelievable, or historically unprecedented about The Donald’s candidacy to fit in one...
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Oral Histories (review)
Holy. Crap. “You don’t hear this kind of talk in the theatre. Let alone a Fringe show.” No, really. Holy crap. This might be the best Fringe show I’ve ever seen. Perhaps it was because I went in with...
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Concrete Devotion (review)
I’ll be honest: I’m not usually a fan of interpretive dance. Most of the time, it’s nearly impossible for me to tell what’s being interpreted without having read it in the guide, which means that even...
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35MM: A Musical Exhibition (review)
35MM: A Musical Exhibition is a series of seriously show-stopping tunes, delivered by a talented cast and live 6-piece band. Written by the incredibly talented songwriter Ryan Scott Oliver, each song...
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The Golden Smile (review)
The Golden Smile is controlled, constructed chaos, a perfect orchestration of madness. It is terrifying and marvelous all at once. Theatre of the absurd in a mental hospital. Seven patients nearly...
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Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story at Arena Stage (review)
Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story boasts a powerful book, a brilliant, balanced cast, held together by the linchpin musical direction and extraordinary keyboard playing of Steven Jamail. Molly...
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The Second Girl (review)
The Second Girl wonderfully refracts remnants of “old world” social hierarchical values through the lives of two Irish immigrant women working in the kitchen of a New England summer home. The...
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Not Medea
How do you solve a problem like Medea? Long a figure of fascination and derision in Greek mythology, the sorceress Medea got revenge on her two-timing husband Jason by killing their children. If that’s...
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