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I Found That the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow (review)
If you’re the kind of person who rolls your eyes when you hear about an author in his or her mid-twenties receiving a lofty sum to write a memoir, you may initially be suspicious of the premise of...
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Prison Break, Incorporated (review)
Nathan Duncan (Andrew Flurer) wants to tear down the system and build a better one (you know, “Damn the man” style). Instead, he’s an-almost-lawyer-turned-dog-walker with a marijuana operation on the...
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Everyman Theatre’s on The Cooking Channel tonight at 10pm
Everyman Theatre’s opening night parties are always grand affairs. But their Great American Rep Opening Night party last April, celebrating their productions of Death of a Salesman and Streetcar Named...
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Romanov (review)
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know the American musical has been redefined and re-colored by the talented Lin-Manuel Miranda and the phenomenon of Hamilton. Well, Danny Baird, who in...
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one half of Waiting for Godot (review)
At first, the MLK Jr. Memorial Library’s Room A-5 dwarfs the audience for Imperial Theatre Live’s production of Waiting for Godot. They come in and sit in clumps of twos or threes, scattered and...
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An Indian Comedian: How Not To Fit In (review)
I was rooting for Krish Mohan. The odds were stacked against him at the Saturday afternoon performance of An Indian Comedian: How Not To Fit In. A block-long power outage rendered the upstairs of the...
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Elizabeth Bruce’s Theatrical Journey, arts in the community
A phone rings. The voice on the other end reports that there’s an emergency: a teddy bear has broken its leg and needs to see a doctor right away. Thankfully, the phone was answered by teaching artist...
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Free Range (review)
If your tastes lean toward the silly, far-fetched and ironic, look no further than Free Range – a title that may be more a commentary about the style of theatre you will see here than the parenting...
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Do Not Disturb (review)
Do Not Disturb is big as Fringe shows go -an ambitious chamber opera in fact, with 11 singers, 5 instrumentalists, plus stage and music directors. As in his previous work, the “horror” opera,...
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How to Give Birth to a Rabbit (review)
When we meet Mary Toft at the beginning of How to Give Birth to a Rabbit, she sings “I’d give my blood” to rise above her life of poverty and indigence, and that’s exactly what she does. Rabbit is the...
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Hand to God at Studio Theatre (review)
Not everything made big is made better. And not everything on a large Broadway stage is improved by a cavernous space. Sometimes the best gifts are in tiny boxes. So it is with Studio Theater’s Hand To...
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Timon 2016 (review)
Every year we are inundated with Shakespeare adaptations. DC is a city that loves Shakespeare. When companies choose to stage a modern adaptation of one of the Bard’s works, they often approach with a...
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H5x7 (review)
Barabbas Theatre has captured a muse of fire and has ascended to the brightest heaven of invention with its adaptation of William Shakespeare’s dynamic history play, The Life of King Henry the Fifth....
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The Elephant in the Room (review)
Right Brain Performancelab’s The Elephant in the Room has an ambitious goal: To engage the audience with theatrical epistemology by way of vaudeville, musical theater, ballet, Butoh, clowning… And,...
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Paul Gonsalves on the Road (review)
Duke Ellington said that jazz is “not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.” In the biographical drama Paul Gonsalves on the Road, Gonsalves, legendary jazz saxophonist and longtime member of...
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Over Her Dead Body (review)
Pinky Swear Productions’ quirky cabarets are perennial Capital Fringe favorites, and rightly so. They reliably deliver engaging productions with strong ensemble performances, intriguing themes, and...
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YES, And … (review)
Let’s all give a nice big “welcome home!” to prodigal son Zack Myers, a locally-born multi-talent currently based out of Miami. Myers is currently camped out on the fringes of Fringe in the basement of...
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22 Boom! (review)
22 Boom! sounded like a sure Fringe favorite. Advertising that it does 23 plays in 70 minutes, it promised something like a Fringe buffet. Light, clever, crisp entertainment, and funny, right? Sadly,...
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SpookyMsgPlsFWD! (review)
Full disclosure: The synopsis for Cats Onstage!’s debut show, SpookyMsgPlsFWD!, mentioned unicorns, so I was already highly predisposed to liking it. Unfortunately, not even the presence of mythical...
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A Midsummer’s Burlesque Dream (review)
Burlesque Classique’s A Midsummer’s Burlesque Dream promises “a sexy, silly romp through the woods with fairies,” and it delivers on that — especially the “silly.” If any Shakespeare play were perfect...
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