Saturday, July 12, 2014
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Usually when someone tells you a Fringe show is different every night, it means “improv showcase” or “audience participation.” Sometimes it means “we d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:42PMWhen it comes to Fringe, Shakespeare is an ace in the hole. Audiences find it familiar, but they also expect more in the bargain. Rude Mechanicals’ production of Macbeth: Instruments o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMSaturday, June 21, 2014
I’ve been thinking about Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea from the moment I left the theatre, and my mind hasn’t really slowed down. Here’s the takeaway: rarely have I encounte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11AMIn a theatre festival marked by brave, bold performances, the Artistic Blind Dates may be the bravest. The Blind Dates bring together three artists of varying disciplines to create a short p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Rejoice, Beckett fans! Short of an actual festival, it’s rare to have the opportunity to see two productions of the same Beckett play in a single season. SCENA Theatre’s latest p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:33AMSaturday, May 31, 2014
I’ll be the first to admit that I was… concerned when I heard that one of DC’s funniest acting troupes was staging one of Shakespeare’s trickiest tragedies. I’l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
If you feel like you need to watch a comedy from behind your hands, either something’s gone terribly wrong or something’s gone terribly right. In this case it’s definitely …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57AMSunday, May 11, 2014
The latest of Alliance for New Music-Theatre‘s additions to The Vaclav Havel Project (originally part of the Mutual Inspirations Festival), Vanek Unleashed is a funny, imaginative, and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50PMI could make this my shortest review ever and point you straight to the ticket page. But that might be less than convincing, so instead I’ll say this: even from a company known for liv…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:49AMFriday, May 9, 2014
Celebrities are the new royalty; rock stars are the new idols. With bacchanalian excesses on both sides of the equation, is it any wonder that someone decided to make the comparison literal?…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:20AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Let’s get this out of the way: The Love of the Nightingale is a difficult, and at times brutal play. It is also incredibly smart, and often funny – and an example of Constellation Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:53PMThursday, April 17, 2014
Following a first workshop production at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Happenings at the Harman series, banished? productions have returned with version two of their work in progre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:11AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Have you ever thought that the ballet needed more puppets? Or is it just me? For those of us troubled by this glaring oversight, Pointless Theatre Company brings us their technically impress…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28AMSunday, February 16, 2014
“Mysterious and evocative”: these were the words that Spooky Action Theater’s Artistic Director Richard Henrich used to describe their production of Nelson Rodrigues’ The Wed…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56PMFriday, February 7, 2014
Nostalgia has sometimes been defined alternately as an exquisite pain or a longing for a past that never really existed. Both of those ideas were at the forefront of my mind during Cultura…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:30PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
“Beautiful women, graphic violence, and, um, some sort of conclusion.” Toss in “excellent clown-work” and you’ve got a pretty good snapshot of Constellation Theatre CompanyR…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PMSunday, January 5, 2014
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a old cartoon? One of those aggressively manic black-and-white pieces where everything has a face and bounces along to the music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:57PMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Dear NSA agents reading this review: Thank you for the page views! If you have some time off for the holidays I recommend you head down to The Studio Theatre to check out Edgar & Annabel…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMSunday, December 15, 2013
There’s something magical about good, fake snow. And The Keegan Theatre’s An Irish Carol has it, falling outside the window of their spot-on-pub set and making you feel like sett…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AMSaturday, November 30, 2013
I have good news for the music lovers out there. Classic Albums Live is exactly what it says on the tin: world-class musicians playing classic rock albums in their entirety, live. At the gro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:48PMFriday, November 22, 2013
Two friends sit in a study, sipping brandy. Both are intellectuals; one is a dissident, while the other has become a collaborator. Summarizing the state of television, one of the men laments…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27AMSunday, November 10, 2013
I’m not generally an opera person. I find them too big, too grandiose, and without enough substance. So it’s with great pleasure that I say that UrbanArias has created the antido…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:50PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
“It was real, and if I had enough money, it was mine.” It’s a mercenary statement when applied to art; when applied to a person, it’s absolutely chilling. 36 Views, Constella…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49AMSunday, October 20, 2013
The days are getting darker, the weather is getting chillier, and everything seems a bit more miserable than usual right now. But lucky for you, Catholic University’s Benjamin T. Rome …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43AMFriday, October 11, 2013
Do you remember the first time that you saw Walt Disney’s Fantasia? That feeling of amazement that crept over you at something just happening and being in front of you? Cavalia Odysse…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Do you like to laugh? If you don’t, you should probably see a doctor about that. But if you do like to laugh, I suggest you get yourself to The Keegan Theatre for their current run of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:01AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
“Everything is real, especially that crate of beers.” That’s not a preface you expect to hear at the theatre, but it’s a fitting opening to The Václav Havel Project, present…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMFriday, September 20, 2013
One of my favorite things about attending shows at The Kennedy Center is how helpful the ushers are. In this case, they helped me pick my jaw up off the floor. Cirque de la Symphonie, the fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMMonday, September 16, 2013
Casanova. Lothario. Bill Clinton. Among the world’s famous playboys, the figure of Don Juan holds a special place in the theatre. Faction of Fools, DC’s premiere commedia troupe,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:30AMThursday, July 18, 2013
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that MOTHS is the most challenging piece of theater currently playing in this year’s Capital Fringe Festival. I don’t mean in the sens…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:34AMSunday, July 14, 2013
Let’s get this out of the way: The Bradford Güild’s Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000 (Yeah!) is a hot mess. The plot (supposedly based on a poem written by Writer/Director Ian McDerm…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:24AM 
