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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Review: Gilded at Capital Fringe by Amy Couchoud

Fringe is usually filled with scrappy fledging companies of artists banding together in the hopes of making some theatre magic on zero budget, a wing and a prayer. But, every once in while t…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AM
Monday, July 16, 2018

Review: Horse People at Capital Fringe by Amy Couchoud

Lindsey is in love with a rock. Yes, an actual rock. More specifically, a rock that’s made up of many other rocks encased in concrete. Yes, actually in love. As she says herself while gent…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AM

Review: MasterMimes: The Show at Capital Fringe by Amy Couchoud

Prior to the start of MasterMimes: The Show, a man and a woman are sleeping on the floor. Every few minutes, an alarm clock goes off and the woman hits snooze with ever increasing annoyance.…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AM
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Theater J (review) by Amy Couchoud

“Jewish Christmas trees don’t have stars!” Or at least they don’t according to Boo Levy, one of the matriarchs of the affluent southern Jewish Freitag-Levy household where the family…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PM
Saturday, July 15, 2017

5 Epiphanies (Capital Fringe review) by Amy Couchoud

Full disclosure: I have spent most of the last decade as a teacher, immersed in the world of autobiographical storytellin . I work with my students to become less “literary” and more �…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AM
Monday, July 10, 2017

The Kind of Thing That Would Happen (Capital Fringe review) by Amy Couchoud

What is truth? It’s a big question to explore in 50 minutes, but Agora Dance’s The Kind of Thing That Would Happen attempts to do exactly that. The result is a beautifully executed, if o…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AM
Sunday, July 9, 2017

Return to the Scene of the Crime (Capital Fringe review) by Amy Couchoud

An autobiographical one-man show about performing a different autobiographical one-man show? It sounds like the ultimate Fringe Festival cliché. But despite its conceit, David Kleinberg’s…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AM
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Polarbear performs Mouth Open, Story Jump Out (review) by Amy Couchoud

How do you know the difference between a story and a lie? According to British spoken word artist Polarbear (aka Steven Camden), a lie is selfish, but a story is a gift. If that is the case,…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AM
Monday, May 8, 2017

Darkly hilarious Laura Bush Killed a Guy (review) by Amy Couchoud

  On November 6, 1963, 17-year-old Laura Welch (future First Lady Laura Bush) was driving down a dark road on her way to the movies when she failed to heed a stop sign, causing a car ac…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PM
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Quotidian’s production proves it’s time for Doubt (review) by Amy Couchoud

You have likely encountered Doubt: A Parable before. Whether it be through the Tony Award-winning original Broadway production, the Pulitzer Prize-winning script, the Academy Award-nominate…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AM
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Blues having its way with love. Blues in the Night at Creative Cauldron (review) by Amy Couchoud

‘Tis the season to think about love, and whether you’ve got the “Dirty No-Gooder Blues,” are “Taking a Chance on Love” or you’re “Just a Lucky So-and-So” there’s a so…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

The Second Shepherd’s Play from Folger Consort (review) by Amy Couchoud

In a season full of holiday spectacle, the rarely performed The Second Shepherds’ Play stands out for its sweet simplicity. With only a small three-piece band of expert musicians and modes…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:02PM
Monday, November 28, 2016

The Secret Garden at Shakespeare Theatre Company (review) by Amy Couchoud

When a garden is neglected “you clear away the dead parts / so the tender buds can form,” sings the character Dickon at the beginning of Act 2 of The Secret Garden. That’s exactly wh…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PM
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Rameau’s Nephew at Spooky Action Theater (review) by Amy Couchoud

Rameau’s Nephew is a stage adaption of enlightenment era philosopher Denis Diderot’s fictional dialogue between a moralistic philosopher (“I”) and his foil, the greedy and hedonistic…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:39AM
Monday, September 19, 2016

I Call My Brothers at Forum Theatre (review) by Amy Couchoud

Washington, DC, 2:16 AM, a car bomb goes off in a supposed terrorist attack. The suspect is a Middle Eastern-looking man with a beard. Amor is a Washingtonian of Middle Eastern descent with …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PM
Friday, July 15, 2016

Paul Gonsalves on the Road (review) by Amy Couchoud

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 l…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:50AM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

How to Give Birth to a Rabbit (review) by Amy Couchoud

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 d…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14AM
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

An Indian Comedian: How Not To Fit In (review) by Amy Couchoud

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 upstai…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:52PM
Monday, July 11, 2016

Barry Beaver’s Adventures in Happy Valley (review) by Amy Couchoud

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…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20PM
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Rain Follows the Plow (review) by Amy Couchoud

Near the beginning of Rain follows the Plow: A Dust Opera the matriarch of the Walker family describes the many hardships of life on the plains in the 1930’s. “But the sky, the impossibl…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PM

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Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
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Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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