About halfway through Casey Bauer’s surreal Half Past What?, I came to the stark realization that I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on yet was still completely enthralled…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:35PMCritical Point Theatre’s quirky Fringe show When We Grow Up is difficult to review for several reasons. The piece is highly-interactive and its best moments are improvised, meanin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02AMFew things are as “Capital Fringe” as an irreverent take on the Bard, and King’s Players have got themselves a hell of an irreverent take in their outrageous farce Ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:31AMAs is implied by the title of Mark Jason Williams’ bleak comedy Straight Faced Lies, the members of the oppressively dysfunctional Ryan family aren’t very good at this whole…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMEvery year the Fringe produces a few real standouts among its more serious offerings. D.W. Gregory’s thoughtful and funny Salvation Road is an excellent example. Anchored by a talen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:01AMWith a title like How to Be a Good Mom… When You’ve Got a Schizophrenic Mother for a Role Model, Pamela Meek’s storytelling piece can seem intimidating at first. But spend …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:41AMKris Noteboom is incredibly endearing. The fluffy, neurotic figure at the heart of And Then I Woke Up establishes very quickly that there’s little space between Kris the artist and Kri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AMThee Candidates Graduate Theatre Company presents a production of Amanda Zeitler’s La Llorona in this year’s Capital Fringe festival. The play recently won the Wichita State University N…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:00AMAs a self-described launching pad for plays, the Source Festival offers writers and artists an opportunity to incubate promising new work, even if scripts exist in but a fledgling state. Suc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20AMChoosing a show for a company’s inaugural production is like deciding on a dress for the debutante ball. The primary goal is to draw attention, to dazzle the room and attract the eyes of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AMWhen Spamalot director Kevin Kuchar delivered the ubiquitous pre-show curtain speech, he emphasized a focus on process over product that serves as the foundation for the Act Two @ Levine’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49AMOn a superficial level, the two women at the heart of Lisa Loomer’s elegantly crafted Living Out couldn’t be more different. Ana (Belén Oyola-Rebaza) is an undocumented nanny working …
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