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Deb Margolin on 8 Stops, her comedy about motherhood, life and death
Deb Margolin is a woman of many, incredible talents: playwright, professor, mother, and solo performer. She was founding member of the feminist Split Britches theatre company and has written numerous...
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Play Cupid (review)
Play Cupid is one of the rare Fringe shows that I’m seriously tempted to go see again, which is saying something for a festival this tightly scheduled. I probably won’t get the chance, but I’ll...
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Cracked at Capital Fringe (review)
The tagline for Cracked is “Love. Faith. Motorcycles,” but bikers be warned: this is not the wind-in-your-hair anthem that you might expect. Nor is it a biographical examination of masculinity and...
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Jamie and Duncan’s Glorious Suicide at the End of the World (review)
Jamie and Duncan’s Glorious Suicide at the End of the World is like a dream, effortlessly insane and delightful, though light on narrative. Matthew Schott and Alex Garretson wrote the show and star as...
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It Will All Make Sense in the Morning at Capital Fringe (review)
It Will All Make Sense in the Morning opens like a nightmare, with a stunning projection of an ominous tree, followed by an off-kilter conversation about the perils of yard work that awakens a gurgling...
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Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap, Capital Fringe (review)
It can be fun reaching into a mixed bag – not knowing whether you’ll get something good or something so-so is a kind of entertainment in itself. Whether you find that the bag of little candies called...
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Dark Times at Grimesville High, Capital Fringe (review)
I don’t know what your high school experience was like, but mine featured every archetype in the book. There were jocks and cheerleaders; popular kids and weirdos; band nerds and nerd nerds; more than...
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Adolescence 2.0 (review) still incubating
You hear it all the time: The thing that people most fear isn’t death. It’s public speaking. That may be true for most people, but if it applies to Dixie Lee Mills, the center of the one-woman show...
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Some major buzz from around Fringe
We’re ten days into Fringe and I’m writing this during the first major rainstorm of the festival. Making it this long without severe weather is something of a minor Fringe miracle. Gives me a moment to...
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The Missing Peace
Twenty-four songs, four musicians, and one vocalist comprise Ron Melrose and Stillpoint Theatre’s production one woman musical, The Missing Peace. Quirky, entertaining, and brimming with talent, this...
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Am I There Yet, Capital Fringe (review)
Did you successfully #adult today? That’s the question Glade Dance Collective wants you to answer before you can take your seat for Am I There Yet. Do you have a community? Do you have a job? A...
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Trump v Clinton creeps into Fringe with Better a Witty Fool (review)
This year, Falstaff Productions teams with Bucharest Inside the Beltway to present Louis James Brenner’s Better A Witty Fool. The title is an homage to William Shakespeare’s line, delivered by the...
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Trump-inspired Rapists and Drug Dealers, Capital Fringe (review)
Rapists and Drug Dealers has nothing to do with rapists and drug dealers, except perhaps in the dim mind of a political wannabe. Nor is it a “metaphor for the immigrant experience,” as its playwright...
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We Know How You Die, UCB at Woolly (review)
I can tell you almost nothing about the content you would see if you went to We Know How You Die at Woolly Mammoth, anymore than I could tell you how you’re going to die. I could say that when I saw it...
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TARGET GOLDBERG (HELP! ROGUE GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE TRYING TO FRAME ME!) Review
“We all live in stories,” says David J. Goldberg, actor, YouTube enthusiast, and, quite possibly, victim of a vast collusion of intelligence operatives who are conspiring to drive humanity into a state...
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Becoming at Capital Fringe (review), worthy of 8 stars
Becoming—a modern dance in nine segments about how the interactions of the human heart shape us—is filled with bare feet and beauty. It is a stunning concoction of ballet, acrobatics, and yoga-esque...
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Privacy Review: Daniel Radcliffe in playful, interactive look at our...
Privacy,a play exploring the death of privacy, is inspired by Edward Snowden’s revelations about surveillance. Snowden even appears on stage (via video.) But, for all its alarming info, the show is...
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The Human Algorithm at Capital Fringe (review)
I don’t know that I have the capacity to boil all of humanity down to a simple equation. Math was never my subject. And even if it were, I have to think the equation would look very different...
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Cirque due Soleil’s KURIOS at Tysons is a homecoming for high-flying gymnast
When Ryan Shinji Murray was 10, he made the short trek from his home in Ashton, Maryland to Washington, D.C. with his family to see a performance of Cirque du Soleil. A decade later, he did what he...
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Seven Windows, Capital Fringe (review)
In the storytelling cacophony that is the Capital Fringe Festival, it is easy to forget the pure beauty of bodies in space moving with discipline and grace. Seven Windows provides that eye-in-the-storm...
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