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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000 (Yeah!)’ by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

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

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Fireball XL’ by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

Here’s a quick test for you: if you start giggling when I tell you to imagine Captain Picard reading this review and shouting “There are FOUR AND A HALF stars!”, then Fireball XL i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04AM

Friday, July 12, 2013

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Double Freakquency’ by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

One of the best things about Fringe is that you have a chance to encounter shows that push the boundaries of theater. AVAdventure Production’s Double Freakquency does just that. Using …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM

Thursday, July 4, 2013

‘Rabbit Hole’ at The Keegan Theatre by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

“You’re not in a better place than me, just a different one.” An entire play is summed up in that one line, and when Susan Marie Rhea utters it you can feel all the carefully set p…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13AM

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

‘Baby Universe’ at The Studio Theatre by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

Baby Universe starts out dark. Actually, dark may not even be a strong enough term for the mood. Grim. Fatalistic. The last man to escape the Earth’s surface for the safety of undergro…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:50AM

Saturday, June 1, 2013

‘The Death of the Marquis de Sade & Dante’ at Tantehorse Company at Atlas by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

If I were writing a one-word review, that word would be “Astounding.” But much more deserves to be said about Tantehorse‘s The Death of the Marquis de Sade & Dante, a ‘Mu…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PM

Saturday, May 11, 2013

‘Cabaret’ at St. Mark’s Players at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

“It’s so tawdry and terrible and everyone’s having such a great time.” It must be a cliché at this point to use Clifford Bradshaw’s summary of 1930s Berlin as a summar…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:05PM

Monday, May 6, 2013

‘Gilgamesh’ at Constellation Theatre Company at Source by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

It’s not often that a company can so completely remake a piece of history and claim it as their own. Gilgamesh is an amazing display of storytelling, and the production is a fantastic …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:19PM

Monday, April 29, 2013

’33 Variations’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

There’s an analogy to be drawn between musical composition and the theater. A play is like a theme; each production is a variation on that theme, stretching it past its original bounds…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:10PM

Saturday, April 27, 2013

‘The Amazing & Marvelous Cabinets of Kismet’ at Wit’s End Puppets at Mead Theatre Lab by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

How do we determine our place in the world? How do we give our lives meaning? And how do we do both of these things while dealing with loss and change? These are just a few of the questions …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PM

Saturday, April 20, 2013

‘The Lady Becomes Him’ at Faction of Fools by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

I’m going to start this review with two important facts. The first fact is that the night I went to see Faction of Fools’ The Lady Becomes Him, it was raining. Hard. One of those…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:37PM

Friday, March 22, 2013

‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ at The Catholic University of America by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

Is it possible for two people be irrevocably connected, regardless of action or distance? Can we ever really be certain about where our lives are headed? And can we ever grow as people witho…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:19PM

Saturday, March 2, 2013

‘The Socky Horror Puppet Show’ at Nu Sass Productions by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

Sing it with me! “It’s time to play the music / It’s time to light the lights…” Oh, no, wait. That’s those other singing puppets. The Socky Horror Puppet Show is …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:05PM

Monday, February 25, 2013

‘The Drawer Boy’ at Port City Playhouse by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

Since its Toronto premiere in 1999, Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy has been one of the most produced plays in the United States. After seeing Port City Playhouse’s production, I…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:31PM

Friday, February 22, 2013

‘Brutus’ at The Catholic University of America by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

On stage, a man tosses and turns in his sleep. Nearby in an overstuffed leather chair, a woman rests. The view from the audience, on bleachers overlooking the stage, is intimate. And “inti…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PM

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

‘The Laramie Project Cycle’ at BAM by Justin Schneider by Justin Schneider

Let’s get this out of the way: I cried. A lot. And I wasn’t the only one. The crying started before a single word of The Laramie Project Cycle was even spoken. At Saturday’…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AM

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